CONTENTS. 



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Art. I. -.-Present Tendencies in Paleontology; by E. TV. 



Beery . .-.. 1 



j Art. II. — Comanehean Formations underlying Florida; by 



E. H. Sellaeds 13 



Aet. III. — Studies in the Cyperacefe; by T. Holm. XXYII. 

 Notes on Carex podocarpa R. Br., C. Montariensis Bail., 

 C. venustula Holm, C. Lemmoni W. Boott, and C. mqua 

 Clarke. (With VI figures drawn from nature by the 

 author) 17 



I Art." IV — On Atavism and the Law of Irreversibility; by 



Agnes Aebee , , 2? 



I Aet. V. — On a Possible Limit to Gravitation; by F. W. 



Very . . . 33 



j Art. VI. — Some Problems of the Adirondack Precambrian ; 



bv H. L. Alling 47 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



Chemistry and Physics — Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules, 

 I. Langmuir, 69. —Qualitative Chemical Analysis, W. W. Scott: 

 The Origin of Spectra, J. J. Thomson, 70. — Absorption of X-Rays, T. E. 

 Auren, 72. — Experimentelle Untersuchungen fiber die Beugung elek- 

 tromagnetischer Wellen an einem Schirm mit geradlinigem Rande. M. 

 Sjostrom, 73. — Mechanical Theory of the Vibrations of Bowed Strings 

 and of Musical Instruments of the Violin Family, with Experimental 

 Verification of the Results, part I", C. V. Raman, 74. 



Geology — United States Geological Survey, G. 0. Smith, 75. — Publications of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Van H. Manning : Iowa Geological Survey, 

 G. F. Kay : Virginia Geological Survey, T. L. Watson, 77. — Geological 

 Survey of Illinois, F. W. DeWolf ; North Carolina Geological and 

 Economic Survey," J. H. Pratt : Wisconsin Geological and Natural His- 

 tory Survey, E. A. Birge and W. O. Hotchkiss : Om Skanes Brachiopod- 

 skiffer, G. T. Troedsson, 78. 



Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence — Equilibrium and Vertigo, I. H. Jones, 79. 



Obituary— W . G. Farlow, 80. 



