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publications, and if desired notices of the meetings also will be 

 sent to corresponding as well as to active members. 



The above circular has been issued by the Secretary, J. S. 

 Diller. 



2. Zeitschrift fur praktische Geologic herausgegeben von 

 M. Krahmann. — This journal, the first number of which appeared 

 with the beginning of the present year, is devoted to the prac- 

 tically uselul and technical side of geology, and particularly to 

 all in this line that relates to ores and ore deposits. It aims to 

 give the latest information concerning new discoveries of deposits 

 of the useful and precious metals, ores, coals, etc., of deep bor- 

 ings, mineral springs, concerning geological surveys, etc. It 

 is to be issued monthly in large octavo form of 48 pp., is well 

 printed and illustrated with maps, cuts, etc. The assistant edi- 

 torial staff is a large one containing the names of many well 

 known specialists both German and foreign. It is an excellent 

 undertaking and will no doubt meet a well merited success. The 

 publisher's address is Julius Springer, Monbijou-Platz 3, Berlin N. 



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3. Annals of British Geology, 1891. A Digest of the books 

 and papers published during the year, with occasional notes; by 

 J.F.Blake. With six plates, pp.402. London, 1892. (Dulau& 

 Co.). — The second volume of the Annals of British Geology, 

 for 1891, appears with admirable promptness. It gives abstracts, 

 in some cases running to several pages, of upwards of six hun- 

 dred papers upon British Geology, Paleontology, Mineralogy, 

 Petrology and related subjects, with also papers on foreign 

 geology published in Great Britain. It is a work which must be 

 most useful to all engaged in labor in these fields, and there ought 

 to be no question in regard to its present and future pecuniary 

 support. Unfortunately it is suggested in the preface that the 

 financial success of the series is not yet assured. 



4. Materialien zur Miner alogie Russlands, von Nikolai von 

 Kokscharow. pp. 97-137. Elf'ter Band. St. Petersburg, 1893. 

 — This final part of the eleventh volume of the great Russian 

 Mineralogy possesses a particular interest because issued so soon 

 after the death of its distinguished and lamented author. The 

 closing pages are devoted to an obituary notice giving a brief 

 statement of his life and labors. Pages i to xi contain an index 

 to the eleven volumes of this monumental work. 



5. Reports of the Missouri Botanical Garden. — The princely 

 endowment by which the late Henry Shaw of St. Louis established 

 in the city of his adoption, a park, a botanic garden, and a school 

 of botany, has already justified itself by its fruits. Under the 

 administration of Professor William Trelease, the institution has 

 accomplished much in the direction of improvement, and has en- 

 couraged research of a high order. 



The fourth annual report of the Director is a worthy companion 

 to those of previous years. It contains a list of plants collected 

 by Mr. Albert S. Hitchcock, in a voyage to the Bahamas, together 



