Geology and Natural History. | ) 
more or less of pyrite. This bedded condition may be observed 
at the mines of Ottawa County, and in the Rideau section toward 
Perth and Kingston in the Province of Ontario. 
5. North Carolina Phosphates ; 3 by W. B. Pamiips. 20 pp 
‘somewhat similar to that of the phosphatic deposits of South 
Carolina, but as at present explored, of much less importance. 
The material has been found in the counties of Duplin, Brunswick, 
Pender and others, but not yet directly on the sea-board, and 
nowhere in sufficient amount to give full assurance of economical 
olia. The phosphatic material is found in sand deposits, consti- 
tuting in places a thin irregular bed 8 to 12 inches thick, along 
‘ditches, dry runs and branches, and along their sides at a depth 
elow the surface of the ground from 3 to 5 feet. 
6. Krystallographische ee an homologen und 
awsomeren Reihen. Eine von der Kais. Akademie der Wissen- 
schaften in Wien mit dem A. Freiherrn von Baumgartner’schen 
Preise gekrénte, durch einen methodologischen Theil vermehrte, 
Schrift von Dr, Aristrpes Brezina. I Thei a gence, 359 pp. 
8vo. Vienna, 1884 (Carl Gerold’s Sohn). Pha memoir, which . 
has been awarded the Baumgartner prize by the Vienna Acad- 
4 
ilas 
Cyperus. —The first part of the 2 names of the Journal 
of ae Linnean Society is an elaborate oe by Caartes Baron 
CLarke, on the EF. Indian Species of Cyperus (of 200 pages and 
with four plates), in which the greater part of the North Ameri- 
can species are also considered. It will be found worthy of par- 
ticular attention. The paper was partially prepared at Kew, but 
was finished at Calcutta. 
We received at the same time a paper in the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society on The Cyperacee of West Coast of Africa 
es te by Henry L. Rivtey, of the Botan- 
ical Department in the British Museum, with two plates, Of 
Seventy-one species of Cyperus, a dozen are —_ in America, 
but not in Asia; a 
