1879. } Recent Literature. r% 
volume is a worthy member of the large series of annual reports 
of this survey, and is quite as important and rather more fully 
illustrated than any of its predecessors. The field work reported 
upon embraced the completion of the EE ANa known as the 
Survey of Fees and portions of adjacent. Territories, and 
was finished in : 
The first ae relating to geology, contains a ee of Dr. fe 
White on a portion of North-western Colora of: F. 
Endlich, Geologist of the White River division, of Dr, A. C 
Peale, Geologist of the Grand River district, and of W. H. 
Holmes on the geology of the Sierra Abajo and West San Miguel 
mountains. These reports are followed by an elaborate essay by 
r. Endlich on the volcanic rocks of Colorado 
The second part, topography, embraces reports by A. D. Wil- 
son on the primary triangulation of Colorado; by Henry Gannett 
on the arable and pasture lands of Colorado; by G. B. Chitten- 
den on the mE pee district, and by G. R. Bechler on the 
ampa River district. 
The third part, archaeology and ethnology, is rich: j in new facts 
regarding ancient ruins of South-western Colorado, contributed 
by Mr. W. M. Holmes and Mr. W. H. Jackson. This portion is 
illustrated by a large number of plates, and is accompanied by 
essays on the Chaco cranium, and on the Indians of Nevada, 
California and Arizona, by Dr. W. J. Hoffman. 
Part four, palæontology and zoölogy contains an essay by Mr. 
Lesquereux pz the fossil plants secured by the Survey in 1877, 
and a report by A. S. Packard, Jr., on the insects affecting the 
cranberry, &c. Y The maps are in some mrn colored, and add 
greatly to the interest and value of the report 
Fifty of the plates illustrate the remarkable cliff dwellers 
in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. A very inter- 
as well as the scientific reader. Unfortunately, Congress has only 
ordered the printing of 4,500 copies, and the demand far exceeds 
the supply. 
This Survey has done so much, by its publications, to spread 
the knowledge both at home and abroad of the remarkable coun- 
try constituting its field of labor, that every annual report finds 
an increasing number of readers, and it is not surprising, there- 
fore, to meet with expressions of regret at the want of liberality 
on the part of Congress in printing too small editions, expressed 
in our own and foreign scientific journals. 
OSELEY’s STRUCTURE OF THE STYLASTERID&.'—It will be 
remembered that Mr. Moseley substantially set at rest all doubts 
1 The Croonian Lecture, o the Structure of the Solod | a a PEA of the 
Hydroid Stony Corals. By H. N. MoseLey, F.R.S. (From the Philosophical 
os of the Royal Society. Part i, 1878.) London. sA ra 78, 11 plates. 
