Geology and Mineralogy. 365 



Charles E. Munroe and Clarence Hall. Pp. 61, 9 plates, 

 12 figures. 



No. 424. The Valuation of Public Coal Lands. The Value 

 of Coal Land ; by George H. Ashley. Depth and Minimum 

 Thickness of Beds as Limiting Factors in Valuation ; by Cassius 

 A. Fisher. Pp. 75. 



Water-Supply Papers. — No 233. Water Resources of the 

 Blue Glass Region, Kentucky; by George Charlton Matson. 

 With a chapter on the Quality of the Waters; by Chase Pal- 

 mkr. Pp. 223, 3 plates, 6 figures. 



No. 236. The Quality of Surface Waters in the United States. 

 Part I. Analyses of Waters East of the One Hundredth Merid- 

 ian ; by R. B.^Dole. Pp. 123. 



No. 238. The Public Utility of Water Powers and their Gov- 

 ernmental Regulation ; by Rene Ta vernier and Marshall O. 

 Leighton. Pp. 161. 



2. Canada Department of Mines. Geological Survey 

 Branch, R. W. Brock, Director. — The following publications of 

 the Survey have been recently received : 



No. 973. Catalogue of Canadian Birds ; by John Macoun 

 and James M. Macoun. Pp. viii, 761, with index. 



Nos. 980, 1081. Reports on a portion of Algoma and Thunder 

 Bay Districts, Ontario ; by W. J. Wilson. Pp. 49, 6 plates. 

 Report on the Region Lying North of Lake Superior, between 

 the Pic and Nipigon Rivers, Ontario ; by W. H. Collins. 

 Pp. 24. 



No. 1035. The Coal Fields of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, 

 Alberta, and Eastern British Columbia ; by D. B. Dowling. Pp. 

 Ill, 11 plates, 1 map. 



No. 1050. The Whitehorse Copper Belt, Yukon Territory; 

 by R. G. McConnell. Pp. 63, 2 figures, and maps. 



No. 1059. A Geological Reconnaissance of the Region trav- 

 ersed by the Transcontinental Railway between Lake Nipigon 

 and Clay Lake, Ontario ; by W. H. Collins. Pp. 67, 2 plates, 



1 diagram. 



No. 1073. Catalogue of Publications of the Geological Sur- 

 vey, Canada. (Revised to January 1, 1909.) Pp. 181. 



No. 1085. A Descriptive Sketch of the Geology and Econ- 

 omic Minerals of Canada ; by G. A. Young. Introduction by 

 R. W. Brock. Pp. 151, 82 plates, 2 maps. 



Mines Branch. — Eugene Haanel, Director. — No. 23. Report 

 on the Iron Ore Deposit along the Ottawa (Quebec side) and Gati- 

 neau Rivers ; by Fritz Cirkel. Pp. vii, 147, 5 plates, 15 figures, 



2 maps. 



No. 62. Preliminary Report on the Mineral Production of 

 Canada during the calendar year 1909 ; prepared by John Mc- 

 Leish. Pp. 18. 



Special reports (Nos. 42-46) have also been issued on the pro- 

 duction for the calendar years of 1907-08 of the following : 

 iron and steel ; chromite ; asbestos ; coal, coke, and peat ; natu- 

 ral gas and petroleum. 



