Geology and Mineralogy. 485 



Nos. 295, 296. Gazetteer of Surface Waters of California. 

 Prepared under the direction of John C. Hoyt by B. D. Wood. 

 Part I, Sacramento River Basin. Pp. 99. Part II, San Joaquin 

 Basin. Pp. 102. 



2. Publications of the Bureau of Mines ; Joseph A. Holmes, 

 Director. — The First Annual Report of the Director of the 

 Bureau of Mines was noticed on p. 305 of this volume. There 

 are now to be mentioned the numerous publications issued by 

 the Bureau in the past few months (see vol. xxxiii, p. 63). These 

 include the following Bulletins : 



No. 6. Coals available for the Manufacture of Illuminating 

 Gas ; by A. H. White and Perry Barker, compiled and 

 revised by Herbert M. Wilson. Pp. 77 ; 4 plates, 12 figures. 



No. 10. The Use of Permissible Explosives ; by J. J. Rut- 

 ledge and Clarence Hall. Pp. 34 ; 5 plates, 4 figures. 



No. 15. Investigations of Explosives used in Coal Mines ; by 

 Clarence Hall, W. O. Snelling, and S. P. Howell; with a 

 chapter on the Natural Gas used at Pittsburgh by G. A. Burrell 

 and an Introduction by Charles E. Munroe. Pp. 197 ; 7 plates, 

 5 figures. 



No. 16. The Uses of Peat for Fuel and other Purposes ; by 

 Charles A. Davis. Pp. 214 ; one plate, one figure. 



No. 18. The Transmission of Heat into Steam Boilers ; by 

 Henry Kreisinger and Walter T. Ray. Pp. 180 ; 78 figures. 



No. 23. Steaming Tests of Coals and Related Investigations, 

 September 1, 1904, to December 31, 1908 ; by L. P. Brecken- 

 ridge, Henry Kreisinger and Walter T. Ray. Pp. x, 380; 94 

 figures. 



No. 25. Mining Conditions under the City of Scranton, Pa. 

 Report and Maps, by William Griffith and Eli T. Conner. 

 With a preface by Joseph A. Holmes and a chapter by N. H. 

 Darton. Pp. 89; also 29 maps in separate cover. 



No. 41. Government Coal Purchases and Specifications with 

 Analyses for the fiscal year 1909-10 ; by George S. Pope, with 

 a chapter on the Fuel-Inspection Laboratory of the Bureau of 

 Mines ; by Joseph D. Davis. Pp. 97 ; 3 plates. 



No. 44. First National Mine-safety Demonstration, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., October 30 and 31, 1911; by H. M. Wilson and 

 A. H. Fay. Pp. 75 ; 8 plates, 4 figures. 



No. 47. Notes on Mineral Wastes ; byC. L. Parsons. Pp. 44. 



Fifteen Technical Papers, many of them of great practical 

 importance particularly as dealing with the conditions in coal 

 mining, have also been issued. 



3. The Onondaga fauna of the Allegheny region ; by E. M. 

 Kindle. Bull. 508, U. S. Geol. Surv., 144 pages,' 13 plates, 1912. 

 —The middle Devonian Onondaga limestone, which is of wide 

 distribution and forms an important datum plane in the eastern 

 portion of North Americans said by many geologists to be absent 

 in the Allegheny region south of Central Pennsylvania. Kindle 

 now shows, after a great deal of detailed work, that the Onondaga 

 is also present in the latter region, but in the main as a calcare- 



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