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a portion of the Martinez as the equivalent of the lowermost 

 Eocene of the Gulf States, the Midway, and the rest as the repre- 

 sentative of an earlier Eocene time than has been recognized else- 

 where in the United States " (64). 



"The mixture of subtropical and boreal forms indicates a warm 

 temperate climate. . . Tejon climate, however, was decidedly 

 warmer than that of the Martinez (111).. . . The faunal differences 

 between Chico and Martinez and between the Martinez and the 

 Tejon are very great" (120). c. s. 



4. West Virginia Geological Survey, I. C. White, Director. 

 — The following publications have recently been issued by the 

 West Virginia Geological Survey, under the direction of I. C. 

 White, the State Geologist : Kanawha County, by Charles E. 

 Krebs and D. D. Teets, Jr., Part IV, Paleontologv, by W. Arm- 

 strong Price. Pp. 679, pis. I-XXXI and I-II (in Pt. IV), figs. 

 14, atlas maps (3) in separate case ; and a Map of West Vir- 

 ginia, on scale of 8 miles to 1 inch, showing Coal, Oil, Gas, Iron 

 Ore, and Limestone Areas, compiled by I. C. White, R. V. Hen- 

 nen, C. E. Krebs, and D. B. Reger. Kanawha ranks first among- 

 the counties of West Virginia in wealth based on coal, oil and 

 gas. The present volume, therefore, has a wide economic inter- 

 est. On the maps accompanying the report, topography, soils, 

 and structural contours on the Pittsburg coal bed, as well as the 

 areal distribution of stratigraphic limits are indicated, h. e. g. 



5. Mining Practice. —The State of Illinois has established 

 two commissions for the investigation and improvement of coal 

 mining practice. To the Illinois Miners and Mechanics Insti- 

 tutes, R. Y. Williams, Director, is assigned the duty of prevent- 

 ing accidents and conserving the resources of the state. Bulletin 

 No. 1, Education of Mine Employees, by H. H. Stoek (pp. 1-136, 

 1914), and Bulletin No. 2, Outline of Proposed Methods (pp. 

 1-27, 1914) have just appeared. 



The Illinois Coal Mining Investigations, working under a 

 cooperative agreement between the State Geological Survey, the 

 United States Bureau of Mines, and the State University, has 

 issued the following : Coal Mining Practice in District VIII 

 (Danville), Bull. 2, 1914, by S. O. Andros, pp. 47, figs. 32 ; and 

 Coal Mining Practice in District VII (southwest Illinois), Bull. 

 4, 1914, by S. O. Andros, pp. 43, figs. 34. h. e. g. 



6. Western Australia Geological Survey. — Two bulletins 

 have recently been issued: Bull. 44, A Geological Reconnaissance 

 of a portion of the South- West Division of Western Australia, by 

 E. C. Saint-Smith, 1912. Pp. 80, 1 geological map, 1 locality 

 plan, 1 8 figs. Granite, gneiss and pegmatite of unknown age form 

 the western and eastern boundaries of the Geographic Bay region. 

 Sandstones of Mesozoic age are exposed in small patches along 

 the Darling Fault. The other sediments represented are of post- 

 Tertiary age and include coastal limestone (buff colored sea sand 

 firmly cemented by carbonate of lime), an enormous expanse of 

 laterite and the sands, clays and gravel forming the coastal plain. 



