572 REVIEWS. 
GEOLOGY OF InDIANA.* — This survey has evidently begun in earnest. 
The present volume informs us that it is instituted to make known the 
mineral resources of the State, but does not state the amounts appropri- 
ated; we hope, however, it is ee to the practical benefits 
already conferred by the Survey. The geology of the counties examined, 
Clay, Greene, Park, Fountain, Warren, Sacre and — bv 
rich fields of coal, and are full of practical details which s 
already more than tenfold repaid the expenses incurred. Ne Es 
castle to Terre Haute a section has been run along the railroad line and 
depth. These have rd the Survey to give a very interesting section 
showing the strata from the Silurian to the surface. The first one at 
Terre Haute penetrates uli the glacial deposits and reaches to the depth 
of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three feet, stopping in the 
on 
e thousand two hundred and forty feet, penetrated the 
Upper sre 
The present Rep is concluded with a catalogue of the Mammals and 
Birds ie Franklin nt 
The assistants aoe in the epson are Professor F. Bradley, Dr 
Dr. G The two f 
oughly worked up the natural history of the State. 
RupoLPH's ATLAS OF THE GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. — There is, as I un- 
derstand. an ** Atlas der Pflanzen geographie," by L. Rudolph, of which a 
without ever having looked at it. To prove my assertion I will point out 
the following errors in plate ** North America” of the first edition. Be- 
tween 34° and 45? north latitude in Oregon and California we find sixteen 
ilax officinalis (Mexican when of Presl, South American when the plant 
* First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana. By E. T. Cox, State Geologist. 
8vo. pp, 240, with two maps and one section. 
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