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BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECENTLY RECEIVED AND THUS FAR 

 NOT OTHERWISE NOTICED. 



Notes on the Nebular Theory in relation to stellar, solar, planetary, cometary 

 and geological phenomena, by "William Ford Stanley, F.R.A.S , etc. London, 1895, 

 259 pp. &vo. (Kegan Paul, French, Trubner & Co.) 



Laboratory Course of Elementary Physics, by W. J. Loudon and J. C. McLennan. 

 302 pp. 8vo. New York and London (Macmillan & Co.). 



Resultate der im Sommer 1893 im dem nordlichsten Theile Norwegens ausge- 

 fiihrten Pendelbeobachtungen nebst einer Untersuchung uber den Einfluss von 

 Bodenerschiitterungen auf die Schwingungszeit eines Pendels, von 0. E. Schiotz. 

 8vo, 42 pp. Kristiania, 1894 (Die Norwegische Commission der Europaischen 

 Gradmessung). 



Ueber die Auswahl der Punkte bei Gottingen, an welchen bei Probe-Pendel- 

 messungen Differenzen in der Intensitat der Schwere zu erwarten waren, von 

 A. vox Koenex. und Ueber die Ergebnisse der ersten Pendelmessungen, von W. 

 Schcr (Nadir, d. K. G-esells. Wissensch. zu Gottingen. Math.-Phys. Klasse, 1895. 

 Hft. 2, pp. 1-7). 



Astronomische Arbeiten der osterreichischen Gradmessungs-Commission. Bes- 

 timmung der Polhohe und des Azimutes auf den stationen Spieglitzer Schneeberg, 

 Hoher Schneeberg und Wetrnik ; ausgefuhrt von Professor Dr. Josef Herr. Nach 

 dessen Tode defihitiv gerechnet und herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Wilhelm 

 Tinter. 96 pp. 4to. Vienna, 1895. 



Recent Bulletins of the U. S. Geological Survey: 



No. 118. A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey, by Henry Gannett. 8vo. 

 131 pp. 



No. 119. A Geological Reconnaissance in Northwest Wyoming, by George H. 

 Eldridge. 8vo, 72 pp. 



No. 120. The Devonian System of Eastern Pennsylvania and New York, by 

 Charles S. Prosser. 8vo, 81 pp. 



No. 121. A Bibliography of North American Paleontology, 1888-1892, by Charles 

 R. Keyes. 8vo, 251 pp. 



No. 122. Results of Primary Triangulation, by Henry Gannett. 8vo, 412 pp. 



Missouri Geological Survey, vol. viii. Annual Report for 1 894, by Charles R. 

 Keyes, State Geologist, with accompanying papers. 405 pp. 8vo. Jefferson City, 

 1895. 



Geological Survey of Canada. Several series of maps have recently been issued 

 by the Canadian Survey ; nine of these are devoted to the auriferous creeks of the 

 Cariboo district, British Columbia ; fourteen others belong to Nova Scotia. 



Le systeme devonien dans la chaine des Mougodjares par P. Venukoff, pp. 

 103-158, plates i-iii. St. Petersburg, 1895. 



The Cretaceous Foramimfera of New Jersey, by R. M. Bag-g. 



Mount Shasta a typical volcano, by J. S. Diller. National Geographic Mono- 

 graphs, vol. i, No. 8, pp. 237-268, figures 1-7 (Am. Book Co.). 1895. 



On Bryozoa. — Two contributions to the nomenclature and elaboration of the 

 structure of Bryozoa and Corals are made by Geo. B. Stimpson of the State 

 Museum in the Report of the State Geologist of New York for the year 1893. 

 The titles are Glossary and Explanation of specific names of Bryozoa and Corals 

 described in vol. vi, Paleontol. of New York and other reports, pp. 731-747, and a 

 discussion of the different genera of Fenestelliise, pp. 687-727. 



L'eruzione del Vesuvis nel mese de Luglio del 1895, Pasquale Franco ed 

 Agostino Galdieri, pp. 1-11. Napoli, 1895. 



Geological Survey of Alabama, Report upon the Coosa Coal field with sections, 

 by A. M. Gibson, Assist. Geologist, pp. 1-143. Montgomery, 1895. 



Sur la Geologie der Congo Francais par M. Maurice Barret (Extrait der Ann. 

 des Mines), pp. 1-132, plates i-xiv. Paris, 1895. 



Ueber die Silurformation in Jemtland von Carl Wiman (Reprinted from Bull. 

 Geol. Instit. Upsala, No. 2, vol. i. 1893). pp. 1-21. 



Republication of descriptions of fossils from the Hall Collection in the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, from the Report of progress for 1861 of the 

 Geological Survey of Wisconsin, by James Hall, with illustrations from the 



