354 Scientific Intelligence. 



The formations of the interior province, over 30 in number, are 

 described in detail by states and correlated so far as the data per- 

 mit by paleontologic characters coupled with dynamic conditions. 

 The memoir is supplemented by an "Annotated list of names ap- 

 plied to Cenozoic beds and formations of the United States ex- 

 cluding the Laramie (pages 320-338), over 200 in number." 



The work is slightly marred by clerical and typographical errors 

 due to the absence of the authors while the matter was passing 

 through the press; several of these are noted in a list of errata, 

 but others may be noted by readers— e. g. the statement on page 

 189 that the Lafayette formation reaches "a thickness of 450 to 

 550 feet" should read "altitude." It should also be noted that 

 nearly two years intervened between the submission and publica- 

 tion of the manuscript. W. J. McGee. 



2. Michigan Geological Survey — Report of the State Board 

 of Geological Survey for the years 1891 and 1892. 192 pp. 8vo, 

 1893. Lansing, Michigan. — Contains the Reports of Dr. Carl 

 Rominger for the years 1881-2 and 1882-3; of Mr. Charles E. 

 Wright for the years 1885-8; of Dr. M. E. Wadsworth for 

 the years 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, made to the State Board of 

 Geological Survey for the years named; and also a Provisional 

 Report by Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, State Geologist, upon the 

 Geology of the iron, gold and copper districts of Michigan. 



3. Geological Survey of Missouri, Arthur Winslow State 

 Geologist. Vol. II, 1892. A report^ of the Iron Ores of Missouri, 

 by Frank L. Nason, Assistant Geologist, for the years 1891 and 

 1892, 365 pp. Svo, with maps, sections and other illustrations, 

 1892. Jefferson City, Mo. 



Vol. Ill, 1892, 256 pp. — A Report on the Mineral Waters of 

 Missouri, by Paul Schweitzer, Assistant Geologist, embody- 

 ing also the notes and results of the analyses of A. E. Wood- 

 ward, Assistant Geologist, for 1890 and 1892. Jefferson City, 

 1892. 



4. Geological Survey of Texas, 1892. — Report on the Brown 

 Coal or Lignite of Texas, by E. T. Dumble, State Geologist, 

 232 pp. 8vo, with maps and other illustrations. Austin, 1892. 



5. The Journal of Geology: A semi-quarterly Magazine of 

 Geology and related Sciences. Vol. I, "No. 1, pp. 1-1 12, January- 

 February, 1893. The University Press of Chicago. — This new 

 Journal opens with an interesting series of articles presented in 

 particularly attractive typographical form ; it promises to occupy 

 a sphere of wide usefulness and influence. It is under able man- 

 agement : the senior editor is Professor T. C. Chamberlin of the 

 University of Chicago, and the other editors are : R. D. Salisbury 

 in geographic Geology ; J. P. Iddings in Petrology ; R. A. F. 

 Penrose, Jr., in economic Geology; C. R. Van Hise in Pre-Cam- 

 brian Geology ; C. D. Walcott in Paleontologic Geology ; W. II. 

 Holmes in Archeologic Geology. There are also thirteen asso- 

 ciate editors, six of these chosen from abroad. 



