v l Sou n'ljir Intelligence. 



I.inm. and 0. C. ScHAEFEB. Pp. 124 ; 14 pis., 9 figs. Sec notice 

 on p. -i i. vol. xli. 



Nos. 118, 118. Abstracts of current decisions on mines and 

 mining imported from May to September, 1015 ; by J. W. Thomp- 

 son. 1']). 128. No. 118, October to December, 1915. Pp.74. 



No. 114. The manufacture of gasoline and benzene-toluene 

 from petroleum and other hydrocarbons. Pp. 208 ; 9 pis., 45 

 figs. 



No. 115. Coal-Mine fatalities in the United States 1870-1914, 

 with statistics of coal production, labor, and mining methods, by 

 states and calendar years ; compiled by Albert H. Fay. Pp. 

 370 ; 3 pis., 13 figs. 



10. Canada, Department of Mines. — The following are import- 

 ant recent publications (see vol. xli, pp. 407-469): 



(1) Geological Survey Branch. R. \V. Brock, Director, i 

 Summary Report of the Geological Survey for the calendar 



year 1915." Pp. viii, 307 ; 8 maps, 3 figs. Ottawa, 1910. 



Memoirs. — No. 55. Geology of Field Map-area, B.C. and 

 Alberta ; by John A. Allan. Pp. vii, 312, vi ; 21 pis., 5 figs. 



No. 77. Geology and Ore Deposits of Rossland, British Co- 

 lumbia ; by Charles W. Drysdale. Pp. ix, 317, vii ; 25 pis., 20 

 figs. 



Xo. 79. Ore Deposits of the Beaverdell Map-area ; by Leopold 

 Reinecke. Pp. v, 178, vii ; one map, 13 pis., 9 figs. 



(2) Mines Branch. Eugene Haanel. Director. 



Annual Report on the Mineral Production of Canada during 

 the calendar year 1914 ; John McLeish, Chief of the Division of 

 Mineral Resources and Statistics. Pp. 362. 



11. Oil and Gas Map of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1915. 

 Pp. 22 with map on scale of 1 : 250,000. Topographic and Geo- 

 logic Survey of Pennsylvania ; Richard H. Hick, State Geolo- 

 gist. Harrisburg, 1910. — It is slated in the pamphlet accompany- 

 ing the large and detailed map now issued, that the value of the 

 petroleum produced in Pennsylvania in 1900 was $18,000,000 and 

 nearly $20,000,000 in 1913. Between these two dates the value 

 fluctuated, falling as low as $11,000,000 in 1911. On the other 

 hand, the value of the natural gas has risen somewhat regularly 

 from $10,200,000 in 1900 to $21,700,000 in 1913. 



12. Bulletin of the Imperial Earthquake Investigation Com- 

 mittee. Vol. VIII, No. 2. The Sakura-Jima Eruptions and 

 Earthquakes. II. ; by F. Omori. Pp. 35-179 ; pis. VIII-XXXII, 

 Tokyo, April, 1910. — This Bulletin of the Japanese Earthquake' 

 Commission is devoted to a discussion of the recent violent vol- 

 canic eruption of Sakura-Jima. An introductory chapter gives 

 notes in tabular form on the time distribution of Japanese erup- 

 tions dating back to the seventh century. The earliest recorded 

 eruption of Sakura-Jima was in 1468 and the twenty-six eruptions 

 noted, down to 1914, with their individual dates, are given with 

 their special characters. The special topics discussed in regard 

 to the eruption of January 12, 1914, are as follows : the meteoro- 



