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have occurred naturally under any circumstances. The sand was 

 presumably deposited by running water, the Boulder-clay by 

 moving ice, entirely different conditions obtaining at different 

 times." 



" All the evidence points to the probability that the man was 

 buried in a narrow, shallow grave, but there is no evidence as to 

 when this took place; we can only label the skeleton ' of doubtful 

 age '." 



Professor T. McKenny Hughes calls attention (pp. 18*7—188) 

 to the relative rapidity with which traces of interment are 

 obliterated. H. E. G. 



7. Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut ; 

 William North Rice, Superintendent. Bulletin, No. 18, Tri- 

 assic Fishes of Connecticut ; by Charles R. Eastman. Pp. 77 ; 

 11 plates, 8 text figures. The appearance of this important bul- 

 letin has already been announced in this Journal. (See Lull, vol. 

 xxxiii, p. 399.) 



8. Report on the Progress and Condition of the Illinois State 

 Museum of Natural History 1909-1910 ; by A. R. Crook, Cura- 

 tor. Pp. 557. — This volume gives an account of the recent growth 

 of the Illinois State Museum, with the additions to the collections 

 both by purchase and gift ; a catalogue of the Museum library 

 and a list of fossils on exhibition are also included The Museum 

 has been fortunate in the number of gifts received, showing the 

 wide interest of the people of the state in these collections ; under 

 the circumstances it would seem as if a more liberal state allow- 

 ance for Museum expenses might well be made. The total 

 amount granted for the two years closing with July 1, 1911, was 

 only $6,450 per annum ; it is remarkable that so much has been 

 accomplished with this scanty income. 



9. Miner alien- Sammlungen. Ein Hand- und Hilfubuch filr 

 Anlage und Instandhaltung mineralogischer Sammlungen : von 

 Dr. Wolfgang Brendler. II Teil. Pp. viii, 699. Leipzig, 

 1912 (Wilhelm Engelmann). — The first part of this work, which 

 is specially designed to help those concerned with the installation 

 of mineral collections, was noticed in this Journal three years 

 since (vol. xxvii, p. 343). The present volume gives a list of 

 mineral species arranged according to Groth's well-known tables, 

 with a brief statement of the composition, crystallization, and 

 the most prominent physical characters. Then follows in each 

 case a full and carefully prepared record of localities, geograph- 

 ically arranged. This part of the work is supplemented by an 

 exhaustive index, showing what species occur at the different 

 localities. The painstaking care given by the author to this part 

 of his work will be appreciated from the fact that in the case of 

 the geographical names in Greenland the meaning of each name 

 is given in full, with a minute statement as to locality. 



10. Der Diamant : Eine Studie von A. von Fersmann und 

 V. Goldsciimidt. Pp. xvii, 274 ; with an Atlas of 432 plates. 

 Heidelberg, 1911 (Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung). — 

 The authors of this handsome work have carried through a remark- 



