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synonymy of the several beds. The paper by J. A. Price on the 

 Waldron Shale and its horizon gives details which will be of 

 value to the general student of Structural Geology. In this 

 paper a large number of detailed sections are given, running from 

 the Silurian through the Devonian. The remainder of the book 

 is devoted to four exhaustive treatises on the Natural History 

 products of the State. Prof. E. B. Williamson furnishes a mono- 

 graph on the Dragonflies of Indiana. Dr. R. E. Call gives an 

 exhaustive and fully illustrated catalogue of the Mollusca of 

 Indiana in which diagnostic descriptions of species are inserted. 

 A catalogue of the Flowering Plants and the Ferns and their 

 allies indigenous to Indiana is furnished by Prof. Stanley Coulter. 

 And Mr. Blatchley contributes a short paper entitled "Notes on 

 the Batrachians and Reptiles of Vigo County, Indiana." The 

 volume is published in the. usual style of the Indiana Reports ; 

 the paper being thin and the printing rather poor for reports of 

 so great scientific value. w. 



3. Geological Report on Monroe County, Michigan, by W. H. 

 Shebzeb. Geological Survey of Michigan, Alfeed C. Lane, 

 Stale Geologist. Vol. vii, Part I. Pp. 1-240, pi. i-xvii. — The 

 nomenclature adopted in the stratigraphical part of this report is 

 as follows: — St. Clare Shale is essentially the equivalent of the 

 Genesee Shale of New York : the Traverse Group is the name 

 for the equivalent of the Hamilton of New York ; Dundee Lime- 

 stone corresponds closely with the beds from the Oriskany Sand- 

 stone to the Onondaga limestone inclusive ; the Monroe beds are 

 correlated with the Salina, Rondout, and Manlius beds of New 

 York State. w. 



4. The Elements of the Geology of Tennessee, prepared for the 

 use of Schools of Tennessee, by J. M. Saffoed and J. B. Kilee- 

 beew, pp. 1-264, figs. 1-46. — Prof. Safford and Dr. Killebrew, 

 the Commissioner of Agriculture, Statistics and Mines, have com- 

 piled a useful book for the use of Primary and Common Schools 

 of the State. A glance through the book reveals nothing new; 

 it appears to follow closely Dana's Manual of Geology, from 

 which many of the illustrations are derived, and Safford's Geol- 

 ogy of Tennessee, but the matter is brought down to the under- 

 standing of students of the lower grades, for whom it will prove 

 a useful guide. w. 



5. Geological Survey of Canada, G. M. Dawson, Director. — 

 The following papers of the Eleventh Annual Report have been 

 received : 



Report of the Section of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Part R, 

 Annual Report, vol. xi, by G. C. Hoffmann. No. 695, pp. 1-55. 



Section of Mineral Statistics and Mines, Annual Report for 

 1898, Part S, Annual Report, vol. xi, by E. D. Ingall. No. 689, 

 pp. 1-193. 



Catalogue of Canadian Birds. Part I. Water Birds, Gallina- 

 ceous Birds, and Pigeons, by John Macoun. No. 692, pp. 1-218. 



Preliminary Report of the Klondike Gold Fields, Yukon Dis- 

 trict, Canada, by R. G. McConnell. No. 687, pp. 1-44. w. 



