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Art. VII. — Problems of the Pacific Islands ; by R. A. Daly 



(With Plate III).. 153 



VIII. — Age of the Iron Ore in Eastern Wisconsin ; by T. E. 



Savage and C. S. Ross. 187 



IX. — A Petrified Palm from the Cretaceous of New Jersey ; 



by E. W.' Beery. .... ... 193 



X. — Plaster of Paris and the Effect of Foreign Substances ; 



by E. L. Troxell 198 



XI. — Note on the Variable Composition of Melanochalcite ; 



by W. F. Hunt and E. H. Krauts 211 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



Chemistry and Physics — Extraction and Recovery of Radium, Uranium and 

 Vanadium from Carnotite, C. L. Parsons, etc., 214. — Qualitative Separa- 

 tion of Silver from Univalent Mercury, N. -v. Zweigbergk, 215. — Diffusion 

 of Solids, C. E. Van Orstrand and F. P. Dewey, 216. — Volumetric Deter- 

 mination of Cerium by Means of Potassium Permanganate, V. Lenher 

 and C. C. Meloche, 217. 



Geology and Mineralogy — Men of the Old Stone Age, their Environment, Life 

 and Art, H. F. Osborn, 217. — Permo-Carboniferous Red Beds of North 

 America and their Vertebrate Fauna, E. C. Case, 219. — Mesozoic and 

 Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States, W. B. Clark and M. W. 

 Twitchell: Upper White River District, Yukon, D. D. Cairnes: Devonian 

 of Southwestern Ontario, C. R. Staufper, 221. — Erosion intervals in the 

 Eocene of the Mississippi Embayment, E. VV. Berry : Arisaig-Antigonish 

 District, Nova Scotia, M. Y. Williams: Stratigraphy of the Pennsvlvanian 

 Series in Missouri, H. Hinds and F. C. Greene : Fossilium Catalogus, I, 

 Animalia, Pars 9, Stegosauria, E. Hennig, 222. — Fossilium Catalogus, I, 

 Animalia, Pars 8, Cephalopoda triadica, C. Diener : Catalogue of the 

 Meteorites of North America to January 1. 1909, 0. C. Farrington : 

 Gems and Precious Stones in 1914, D. B. Sterrett, 223. —Magic of Jewels 

 and Charms, G. F. Ktjnz : Mineral Resources of Texas, W. B. Phillips : 

 Mineral Resources of the Philippine Islands for the year 1914 : Building 

 Stones of Ohio, J. A. Bownocker, 224. — Peat Resources of Wisconsin, 

 F. W. Httels : Purchase and Sale of Illinois Coal on Specification, S. W. 

 Parr, 225. 



Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence — Development of the Human Body ; 

 A Manual of Human Embryology, J. P. McSIurrich : National Academies 

 and the Progress of Research, G. E. Hale : Memoirs of the Queensland 

 Museum, R. Hamlyn-Harris, 225 : Edinburgh Mathematical Tracts, 228. 



Obituary — E. W. Hilgard: A. Yaughan : F. R. Barrell : H. E. Dresser: 

 C. R. Zeiller, 226. 



