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discovered lodes at Wallangie, and on the valuable deposits of 

 residual elaj^s at Bolgart and Clackline. Along the Ponton 

 streamway, Mr. Talbot found bowlders which are believed to have 

 been carried inland by icebergs after the manner of those in the 

 Wilkensen Range (Bulletin 75). Publications for the year 

 include : Bulletin 77. Sources of Industrial Potash in Western 

 Australia: E. S. Simpson, I. H. Boas, and T. Blatchford. 

 Bulletin 82. The Magnesite Deposits of Bulong : F. R. Feldt- 

 MANN. Memoir No. 1. The Western Australian Mining Hand- 

 book, which is being issued in sections as they are received from 

 the Printing Office. Twenty-one chapters, chiefly description of 

 mineral deposits, have been received. Papers on petrology, pros- 

 pecting and similar topics are also included in these separate 

 chapters. h. e. g. 



6. Tenth Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of 

 Mines, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920; Frederick G. 

 CoTTRELL, Director. Pp. 149 with 3 plates and 2 text figures. — 

 The most important accomplishment of the year has been the 

 completion and dedication of the station and central laboratories 

 of the Bureau at Pittsburgh. This gives it an adequate estab- 

 lishment and headquarters for field and investigative work. The 

 special work carried through is connected with the transition 

 from war to peace conditions. The study of accidents and rescue 

 in mines with the health of the miners is one to which the Bureau 

 has always devoted much attention. During the year, 10,177 

 miners were trained in first aid and rescue work and assistance 

 was rendered in 27 mine accidents. The activities of the Bureau 

 are so varied and comprehensive that it is only possible to briefly 

 allude to them in the present place. 



It is a matter of regret that Dr. Cottrell has been compelled to 

 withdraw as director to take up his duties as chairman of the 

 Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technolog}^ of the National 

 Research Council. Dr. Cottrell recommends as his successor 

 H. Foster Bain of California, who during the war served as 

 assistant director. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The System of Animate Nature; by J. Arthur Thomson. 

 Two vols. ; vol. 1, The Realm of Organisms as it is, pp. xi, 347 ; 

 vol. 2, The Evolution of the Realm of Organisms, pp. v, 353-687. 

 New York, 1920 (Henry Holt & Co.). — These volumes comprise 

 the Gifford lectures, twenty in number, delivered in the Univer- 

 sity of St. Andrews in 1915 and 1916. In them the reader will 

 find a broad and sympathetic survey of the entire field of biology, 

 leading from the unfathomed universe to the psj^chical, ethical, 

 and spiritual nature of man. 



Every one of the outstanding generalizations in modern biology 

 is examined in a critical but kindly spirit and brought into har- 

 mony with the rest of the system of animate nature. The author 



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