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May, 1893. The vertebrate fossils described and figured are 

 from the Dockum Terrane of the Triassic, the Loup Fork beds, 

 the Blanco beds, and the Equus beds. They represent nearly 

 fifty species. 



(2) Preliminary Reports on the Artesian Wells of the Gulf 

 coastal slope, by I. A. Singley ; and on the organic remains 

 from the deep well at Galveston, by Gilbert D. Harris. 34 pp. 

 June, 1893. The Galveston well is that which is the subject of 

 the paper at page 38 of this volume. 



(3) A contribution to the Invertebrate Paleontology of the 

 Texas Cretaceous, by F. W. Cragin. 106 pp., with 13 plates. 



(4) Report on Grimes, Brazos, and Robertson Counties, by W. 

 Kennedy. 84 pp., with sections. June, 1893. 



(5) Report on the Rocks of Trans-Pecos Texas, by A. Osann ; 

 and on the Geology of Trans-Pecos Texas, by W. H. Streeru- 

 wirtz. 54 pp. July, 1 893. 



5. Geological Survey of New Jersey. Gasteropoda and Cepha- 

 lopoda of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New 

 Jersey, by R. P. Whitfield. 402 pp. 4to, with 50 plates. Tren- 

 ton, N. J., 1892. — The first part of Mr. Whitfield's very valuable 

 Report on the Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils of New Jersey, 

 treating of the Lamellibranchiata, is now followed by a second 

 part, of like importance and excellence. These volumes are ix 

 and xviii in the quarto publications of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



6. Annual Report of the Director of the IT. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, vol. XL Part 1, Geology, 750 pp. roy. 8vo ; Part 2, Irri- 

 gation, 396 pp. ; each with maps and other illustrations. — The 

 memoirs included in Part 1, are the following: " The Pliocene 

 History of northwestern Iowa, by W. J. McGee, occupying 380 

 pages — which has already been noticed in this Journal; and the 

 Natural Gas field of Indiana by A. J. Phinney, 126 pp., with an 

 introduction of 28 pp. by W. J. McGee. 



7. The following Bulletins and quarto Memoirs of the United 

 States Geological Survey have been recently issued : — 



Bulletin No. 85. Correlation Papers : The Newark System, by 

 I. C. Russell. 344 pp., 8vo, with maps. 



No. 86. Correlation Papers : Archean and Algonkian, by C. R. 

 Van Hise. 549 pp., with maps. 



No. 90. Report of work done in the division of Chemistry and 

 Physics, mainly during the fiscal year, 1890-91, by F. W. Clarke. 

 75 pp. 



No. 91. Record of North American Geology for 1890, by N. 

 H. Darton. 88 pp. 



No. 92. The compressibility of Liquids, by Carl Barus. 

 96 pp., with plates. 



No. 93. Some Insects from Florissant, Colorado, and from other 

 points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah, by S. H. Scudder. 

 35 pp., with plates. 





