394: Scientific Intelligence. 



Report on the Valley Regions of Alabama {Paleozoic strata), 

 by Henry McCalley, Assistant State Geologist, Part II, On the 

 Coosa Valley Region, pp. 1-862, plates x-xxxv, figures 5-18. — 

 The illustrations are chiefly of ore banks, mines and quarries of 

 iron ores, bauxite and limestone. 



3. Canada, Geological Survey, Geo. M. Dawson, Director. — 

 The Annual Report (new series), vol. viii (publication number 

 61V) is composed of the separate reports A, D, J, L, R, and S, 

 lor the year 1895. They have been issued previously in separate 

 form and several have been already noticed in these pages. 



A. (No. 582.) Summary Report of the Geological Survey 

 Department for the year 1896, by the Director, pp. 1-154 A. 



D. (No. 601) Report on the country between Athabasca Lake 

 and Churchill River, by J. Burr Tyrrell and D. B. Dowling, pp. 

 1-1 20D. 



J. (No. 541) Report on the Geology of a portion of the Lauren- 

 tian area lying to the north of the Island of Montreal, by Frank 

 D. Adams, pp. 1-184J. 



L. (No. 584) Report on Explorations in the Labrador Peninsula, 

 along the East Main, Kokasoak, Hamilton, Manicuagan, and por- 

 tions of other rivers, in 1892-93-94-95, by A. P. Low, pp. 1-387L. 



R. (No. 616) Report of the Section of Chemistry and Mineral- 

 ogy, by G. C. Hoffmann, pp. 1-5 9R. 



S. (No. 602) Section of mineral statistics and mines, Annual 

 Report for 1895, by E. D. Ingall, pp. 1-103S. 



The maps accompanying the reports in this are, 597, Map of the 

 country between Lake Attabasca and Churchill River, 590, 

 Province of Quebec, geological maps of parts of Joliette, Argen- 

 teuil, Terrebonne and Montcalm Counties, and four maps (585, 

 586, 587 and 588) of the Labrador Peninsula. There are also 17 

 plates, pp. 998. Ottawa, 1897. h. s. w. 



4. Indiana, 21st Annual Report of Department of Geology 

 and Natural Resources, 1896, W. S. Blatchley, State Geologist, 

 pp. 1-718, plates i-xxxix, and six lithograph maps. 1 897. — 

 .Besides detailed reports on the geology of several counties the 

 volume contains an elaborate report on the Bedford Oolitic lime- 

 stone, by T. C. Hopkins and C. E. Siebenthal (pp. 289-427); a 

 chapter on Indiana Caves and their fauna, and a Catalogue of the 

 uncultivated ferns and fern allies (Pteridophyta) and the flower- 

 ing plants (Spermatophyta) of Vigo County, Indiana, by W. S. 

 Blatchley, the latter containing 853 entries, and several reports 

 on economic resources of the state. h. s. w. 



5. Fossil Insects of the Cordaites shales of St. John, N. B. — 

 G. F. Matthew has given a description of what he believes to 

 be a new fossil insect, Geracus tubifer, n. gen. et sp. (with long 

 suctorial proboscis, but with no head distinct from thorax and no 

 wings and no evidences of appendages) from the Cordaites beds. 

 Whether the specimen be insect or not, the author has in connec- 

 tion with this description brought together figures and references 

 to the original descriptions of the remarkable laud fauna, already 

 known from these beds. 



