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Art. VII. — Chemical Composition of Staurolite, and the 

 regular arrangement of its Carbonaceous Inclusions; by 

 S. L. Penfield and J. H. Pratt SI 



VIII. — Carboniferous Insects of Commentry, France; bv 



S. H. Scudder '. 90 



IX. — Caesium-Cupric Chlorides ; by H. L. Wells and L. C. 



Dupee 91 



X. — Cassium-Cupric Bromides; by H. L. Wells and P. T. 



Walden 94 



XL — Csesium-Cupric Chlorides ; by H. L. Wells.. .-16 



XII. — Harrisburg Terraces ; by H. B. Bashork 9S 



XIII. — Additional Species of Pleistocene Fossils from Win- 



throp, Mass.; by R. E.Dodge 100 



XIV. — Amount of Glacial Erosion in the Finger-Lake 



Region of New York; by D. F. Lincoln 105 



XV.— Basalts of Kula ; by H. S. Washington 114 



XVI. — Fishing Banks between Cape Cod and Newfound- 

 land ; by'W. Upham 123 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



Chemistry and Physics — Fusing poiuts of Inorganic Salts, V. Meyer and Rid- 

 dle: Manocryometer, De Visser, 130. — Fusion and Volatilization of Metals 

 and Oxides in the Electric Arc, Moissan, 131. — Modification of Thomson's 

 quadrant electrometer, F. Himstedt: Coating aluminium with other with other 

 metals, Neesen, 133. — Modifications of Silver, H. Ludke: Vorlesungen iiber 

 Maxwell's Theorie der Elektricitat und des Lichtes, L. Boltzmann: Errata, 

 Prof. Mayer's article, 134. 



Geology and Mineralogy — Geological Society of America, 135. — Le Tormaline 

 del Granito Elbano, G. D'Achiardi: Anleitung zur Krystallberechnung, Dr. B. 

 Hecht : Cours. de Mineralogie professe a la Faculte des Sciences de Paris, C. 

 Friedel, 145. — Recherches Miueralogiques, Edition Posthume, M. Tolstopia- 

 tow: Large unio-like shell from the Coal measures: Cretaceous in Northern 

 Minnesota: Evidences of a Submergence of Western Europe, J. Prestwich: 

 Canadian Ice Age, J. W. Dawson, 146. — Bulletin of the Dept. of Geology, Uni- 

 versity of California: Geological Survey of Missouri: Geikie's Fragments of 

 Earth Lore, 147. — Economic Geology of the United States, R. S. Tarr, 151. 



Astronomy and Seismology —Force that acts on the meteoroids after they have 

 left the comets, H. A. Newton, 152 — Photographs of Aug. and Dec. meteors, 

 Dr. Elkin, 154. — Annual and Semi-annual Seismic Periods, C. Davison, 155. 



Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence — Laws of organic growth. Bioplastology 

 and the related branches Biologic research, A. Hyatt, 157. — Bibliography of 

 Vertebrate Embryology, C. S. Minot : Theory of Development and Heredity, 

 H. B. Orr : Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State 

 University of Iowa : Horns and Hoofs, or Chapters on Hoofed Animals, R. 

 Lydekker, 158. — Native Birds of song and beauty, H. Nehrling: Emules de 

 Darwin, A. de Quatrefages: Bibliotheca Zoological!: Mechanics of Hoisting 

 Machinery. Wiesbach and Hermann, 159. — Elementary Treatise on Fourier's 

 Series and Spherical, Cylindrical and Ellipsoidal Harmonies, W. E. Byerly, 160. 



Obituary — Rudolf Wolf: Paul Fischer: D. A. Braunns: Arthur Milnes 

 Marshall: Pierre T. Van Beneden: Jean Vilanova y Piera, 160. 



