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country has been of remarkably recent development, when its 

 present importance is considered. It was in 1867, that the min- 

 ing of the phosphatic deposits in South Carolina commenced, 

 while the mining of apatite in Canada dates only from 1872. 

 It is not strange then, that an interesting, well illustrated and 

 thoroughly practical book upon this subject has been appreciated 

 at once, as shown by the fact that the first edition was exhausted 

 before it had been on sale more than a few days. The scope of the 

 work is given in the comprehensive title. The most original part 

 otthe book and perhaps that in which most interest will be felt is 

 the chapter upon the newly discovered phosphate deposits in Flor- 

 ida, at which mining was not fairly begun until 18S9. A good 

 map of the state shows the points where operations are now being 

 carried on, and some sixteen excellent full page illustrations give 

 a good idea of the methods of occurrence, ot exploitation, etc. 



9. The Kioxoa Go. {Kansas) Meteorites • by Robert Hay. 

 (Communicated) — This spring some more meteorites were found, 

 which extend the area of the find as described by Kunz, Snow 

 and Winchell nearly a mile farther east and increase the number 

 of meteorites several thousand. One mass eighty pounds in 

 weight has been obtained, but the rest of the find i*epresents a 

 new feature in the remarkable fall. There has been one distinct 

 meteorite of nineteen ounces in weight besides the large one, but 

 the rest were found in groups of small meteorites from about a 

 pound in weight to the size of a pea. Each group was scattered 

 over an area of 15 to 30 square yards. The larger individuals of 

 the groups show themselves true Pallasites and even some very 

 small ones, but many of these latter are largely oxidized, the 

 metallic iron having all disappeared. All stages of oxidation are 

 shown in each group. The large mass and three groups — the 

 smallest weighing three pounds and numbering 400 individuals — 

 are in possession of the writer, Junction City, Kansas. 



10. Geological Survey of Kentucky, John M. Procter, Di- 

 rector. — This survey has recently published a report of 20 pages, 

 by G. M. Sullivan, on the Geology of parts of Jackson and 

 Rockcastle Counties, with a colored geological map. 



OBITUARY. 



Henry Nottidge Mosely, the able Naturalist of the Chal- 

 lenger Expedition of 1872 to 1876, and since 1881 Professor of 

 Human and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, died on the 10th 

 of November last, at the age of forty-seven. 



Philip Herbert Carpenter, Science-Master of Eton College, 

 and the author of extensive elaborate researches on the structure 

 of echinoderms and especially living crinoids, died October 21, 

 aged thirty-nine years. Mr. Carpenter was the fourth son of Dr. 

 W. B. Carpenter. 



