460 Miscellaneous Notices. 
42 pp. 8vo. Washington | ri A peper of wide interest to the people of 
America, illustrating the evils coming from the destr — of forests. 
The Geological and Natural History Sutvey of Minnesota. The 8th Annual 
Report, for 1879, 0 Wi 1) Fae | p. 8vo. Saint Paul, 1880. Con- 
tains Reports on the Cupriferous a ake? at Duluth, and the Trenton and Hudso 
River groups in Minnesota, by N. H. Winchell; a Rte »ort on the Geology, and 
especially the glacial phenomena, of (en ef and stern Minnesota, by W 
m; on the Zeolites of the vicinity of the Grand } s, by S. F. Peckham 
C. W. Hall, and other papers. Prof. Winchell gneve ‘of the Cupriferous aan 
concludes that these rocks (the Ke vi bengainae as they have been recently called), in- 
cluding the associated igneous, LAA correctly assigned to the Potsdam by 
Messrs. Foster, Whitney and Hall, in 1849.” 
ulletin of the Philosophical Salen if Washington, (D. C.). Vol. i, March, 
18 ii, to June, 1874; ii, Oct., 1874, to Nov , 1878; iii, Nov, 1878, to June, 1880. 
Museum of Conrady Zoology. The follo wing publicat ons of the Museum 
ve been recently issued: (1.) The pe sage Gravels of the Sierra Nevada an 
ecunapreg b Dd. titney, vol. vi, No. 1 of the 4to ineticien: 4 289-570 pp.; 
ing the e completion of the Sehr a. wee k on the subject, the preceding portion 
of which appeared in 1879. (2.) The Climatic Gh ranges of Later Geological 
Times, a discussion based on oo. he —. in the Cordilleras of North 
America, ab J. D. Whitney, vol. vii . 2, Part 1 of the 4to memoirs, 120 pp. 
(3.) On e points in ee structure = ‘ae itmabryonic Zoéa, by W. Faxon, vol. 
vi, No. 10, "of the Bulleti 
Die pongien on miata von Mexico und begee Caraibischen ret Mein 
r Schmidt. 2nd Heft. 4to, with plates 5 to 10. Jena, 1 
of in reports of the Arodging aces the it ocsieics of Prof. ipa or 
the direction of the Coast Survey. 
On the Zoological position of Texas, by E. D. Cope. 52 pp. 8vo. Bulletin 
No. 20 of the U.S. National Museum, Washington, 1880. Also, by the same, 
Ame 
Genera of the Creodonta, Proce. r. Phil. S 
Supplement I to a Catalogue of Official Reports - bere es Surveys of the 
United States and British North America, by F. P van Jr., late Asst. Geol. Survey 
of “Spr Aegewr 13 pp. 8vo. Cedar Point iron 0 , Baltimore, Jay 31, 1880. 
tr orp ~ er — Observatory (Chicago). for 1880, G. W. Hough, Direc- 
. 
um of bok rop Caneel Types - the —_ of the Pacific Ocean, with 2 
shomeranic p ca, explanatory t and ane ical Scar of the Ocean, jon 
published at tigre by the Ascoli Godefro oy. 4to, 1881. (L. Frederichsen 
& Co.) Al oe Pa _ Museum, a Saye on Phathe Ocean Ethnography 
and Ethnology. 0 pp. 8vo, and 46 plate: 
tion oy te Double-Star Maasiens of Ss Bedford Catalogue, by 8. W. 
Pics (Monthly Not. Astron. Soc., vol. 
Observations 2 the Satellites of Mars, by ‘Asaph Hall. (Monthly Not. Astron. 
Soc., vee xl, No 
Science. This mee York Weekly Journal ot cepa has announced that its 
size wiil be doubled with the commencement of n xt yea 
American Entomologist, a monthly devoted to Practical a Popular Entomology, 
edited by ©. V. Riley. Washington, D. ©. Vol. iy commences with January. 
.00 a year, 
Annals of the ape aga Observatory of Harvard College, vol. xii. iss 
vations made with the Meridian Circle during the years 1874 and 1875, and pre 
pared for apse ty nein the direction of Joseph Winlo ny ms a C. Pickering, 
uccessive Directors of the Observatory, by Wm. A. Ro t. Prof. Astron. 
e Ob xcii, and 272 pp. 4to. Cambridge, Shien "S80, Also, by 
the rast Gneslonvs of 618 Leg extracted from volume xii of the Annals of the 
Observatory. eee e, 
Nachtrege zur Dyas L., n Dr. H. B. Geinitz, 44 pp. 4to, with 7 
as of the Geological ated of India Sind Fossil Corals and penne 
artin Duncan. vol. i, 110 pp. 4to, with 28 = (Tertiary and Upper 
oa Fauna of Western Tndia, Ser. xiv.) Calcutta, 1 880. 
