80 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



-t. An international Congress of 'applied Chemistry is to be held 

 at Brussels, Aug. 6th to 11th. Mon. F. Sachs (rue d'Allemagne, 

 68), and H. Van Laer (rue de Holland, 15), Brusselles, are the 

 general secretaries of the committee of organization. 



The Lower Silurian LameUdbranchiata of Minnesota : by E. 0. Ulrich, pp. 475- 

 62S, pis. xx'xv-xlii. (From vol. iii of the Final Report of the Geological and 

 Natural History Survey of Minnesota.) June 16, 1S94. 



Etudes industrielle des Gites Metalliferes ; par George Moreau. pp. 439, 

 fig. 1-39. (Baudry et C ie .) Paris, 1894. 



On the hereditary transmission of acquired characters: by Wm. H. Brewer. 

 (Agricultural Science. Vol. vi, and Tol. vii ; a series of nine papers closing with 

 Vol. vii. pp. 433-433.) 1893. 



The volcanoes of the Kula basin in Lydia : bv Hexrt Stephens Washixgton. 

 pp. 1-67. Pis. i-iv. -Xew York, 1S94. 



Iron ores of North Carolina, a preliminary Report: by Hexrt B. C. Nitze, 

 Assistant Geologist. (Bulletin No. 1 , North Carolina Geological Survey, J. A. 

 Holmes, State Geologist.) pp. 1-233, figs. 1-58, pis. i-xx, one map. Raleigh, 

 1893. 



77(e Relation of Biology to Geological Investigations ; by Ciias. A. White. From 

 the Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1892, pp. 245-368 (with plate xiv). 

 Washington, 1894. 



Geomorphology of the Southern Appalachians ; by C. Willard Hates and 

 Maries R. Campbell, from the National Geographic Magazine. Vol. vi, pp. 

 63-126. Pis. 4-6. Washington, 1894. 



Iowa Geological Survey, Vol. II, Coal Deposits of Iowa; by Charles Rollix 

 Ketes. pp. 536. Pis. i-xvni. Des Moines, 1894. 



United States Geological Survey, Bulletins. — The following Bulletins have been 

 recently published: 



97. The Mesozoic Echinodermata of the United States, by W. B. Clark. 1893. 

 8°. 207 pp. 50 pi. 



98. Flora of the Outlying Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri, by 

 David White. 1893. 8". "l39 pp. 5 pi. 



99. Record of North American Geologv for 1891. bv Nelson Horatio Darton. 



1892. 8°. 73 pp. 



100. Bibliography and Index of the Publications of the H. S. Geological Survey 

 1 87 9-1 S92. by Philip Crevehng "Warman. 1S93. 8°. 495 pp. 



101. Insect Fauna of the Rhode Island Coal Field, by Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 



1893. 8°. 27 pp. 2 pi. 



104. Glaciation of the Yellowstone Valley north of the Park, bv V. H. Weed. 

 1S93. 8°. 41 pp. 4 pi. 



105. The Laramie and the overlying Livingston Formation in Montana, by 

 Walter Harvey Wood, with Report on Flora, by Frank Hall Knowlton. 1893. 8°. 

 66 pp. 6 pi. 



106. The Colorado Formation and its Invertebrate Fauna, by T. W. Stanton. 

 1893. 8vo. 288 pp. 45 pi. 



107. The Trap Dikes of Lake Champlain Valley and the Eastern Adirondacks, 

 by J. F.Kemp. 1893. 8°. 62 pp. 4 pi. 



108. A Geological Reconnoissance in Central Washington, by Israel Cook 

 Russell. 1893. 8\ 108pp. 12 pi. 



12th Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey. 1890-91. By J. 

 W. Powell, director, Part I Geology, xiii, 675 pp. 53 pi. Part II Irrigation, 

 xviii. 576 pp. 146 pi. Washington, 1891. (Vol. I contains — The Origin and 

 Nature of Soils, by N. S. Shaler"; pp. 213-346; The Lafayette formation, by W. 

 J. McGee; pp. 347-524; The North American Continent during Cambrian time, 

 by C. D. Walcott; pp. 523-568; The Eruptive rocks of Electric Peak and Sepul- 

 chre Mountain. Yellowstone National Park; by J. P. Iddings; pp. 569-664.) 



The following extracts from the 13th Annual Report of the Director of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey have appeared : 



The Mechanics of Appalachian structure, by Bailey Willis. 



The Rensselaer Grit Plateau in New York, by T. Nelson Dale. 



Second Expedition to Mount Saint Elias, by Israel Cook Russell. 



The Average Elevation of the United States, by Henry Gannett. 



The American Tertiary Aphidse, by S. H. Scudder. 



