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held by most observers of that region, there has been widespread 

 glaciation in Tasmania down at least to the 400 ft. level. These 

 low level deposits are best preserved in the valleys of the King, 

 the Linda and the Pieman River. 



3. Report on a Geological Reconnoissance of the Iron Region 

 o/Angat, Bulacan ; by H. D. McCaskey. 62 pp., 56 pis. Bull. 

 3, Mining Bureau Phillippine Islands. — A sketch of the Geology 

 of the Province of Bulacan shows many interesting features. The 

 rocks described are pre-Tertiary crystallines (diorites ?), modern 

 volcanics, Tertiary or early Quaternary sedimentary rocks, tuff 

 deposits, alluvium. One fossil found is of early Mesozoic or late 

 Paleozoic age. The photographs, tables of analyses and maps 

 are valuable additions to the text. 



4. Mineral Tables for the Determination of Minerals by their 

 Physical Properties ; by Arthur S. Eakle. Pp. 73. New 

 York, 1904 (John Wiley & Sons). — Mineral tables, based upon 

 physical properties, have the advantage as compared with those 

 which are strictly chemical, that they call the attention of the 

 student to the visible characters of the specimens he is handling, 

 and hence tend to increase his knowledge of them. The Weis- 

 bach tables have been long and favorably known, but this vol- 

 ume now issued differs from them, in that the fundamental basis 

 of classification is that of color. The arrangement is based, 

 first, on the color of the fine powder, the streak, and second 

 upon the color of the mass. The individual species, with their 

 other characters given in tabular form, are arranged by their 

 specific gravities. The tables have evidently been carefully pre- 

 pared, and under the guidance of a good teacher should give 

 excellent results. 



5. Meteorite Catalogues. — The catalogue of the Collection of 

 Meteorites of the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago, compiled 

 by Dr. O. C. Farrington, has recently been issued. It shows that 

 the collection has grown from the 179 falls in July 15, 1895, to 

 251 falls in May 1, 1903, and the total weight from 2,099 to 2,289 

 kilograms. The collection has large masses of the following : 

 Brenham 445 kgs., Canyon Diablo 690 kgs., Long Island 528 kgs., 

 Toluca 177 kgs. 



A catalogue of the collection of the Berlin University, by Prof. 

 C. Klein, has also appeared. This collection is now one of the larg- 

 est in the world in number of falls, the total number amounting 

 to 450. The latest estimate (quoted b}^ Klein) for the Vienna 

 collection gives 560 localities in 1903, for London 476 in 1896, for 

 Paris 466 in 1898. In addition to the classified list of meteorites, 

 this catalogue also contains more or less detailed descriptions of sev- 

 eral meteorites. A point of unusual interest is the identification 

 of the mineral leucite which is present in minute trapezohedrons 

 in the Schafstadt meteorite (1861) with anorthite, augite, etc. ; it 

 is probably also present in the Pawlowka (1882) meteorite. 



6. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive 

 Archipelagoes y edited by J. Stanley Gardiner. Vol. II, Part 



