360 Recent Literature. [ May, 
tion, he should require that the objects obtained shall be placed 
in some of the museums of New York or Washington. The 
educational interests of our country require all the aid that collec- 
tions and museums can give, and future generations will doubtless 
be increasingly awake to their importance, and will hold in hig 
esteem those who create or sustain them. 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HAYDEN SURVEY FOR 1877..— 
This is another permanently valuable contribution to the geologi- 
cal literature of the Western United States. The unusually fine 
and numerous illustrations accompanying it, add much to its 
value. Part 1, geology and paleontology, comprises over 600 
pages, illustrated by seventy-six admirably executed maps and 
sections, and ten plates illustrating invertebrate fossils. 
This part is chiefly made up of reports by the chiefs of divis- 
ions and districts, of which there are five. Dr. Endlich, in his 
Report on the Geology of the Sweetwater district, seems to have 
given special attention to the mineral resources and economic 
geology of that region, and it is illustrated by six admirably exe- 
cuted geological sections of the country traversed. Dr, White's 
Report on the Cretaceous fossils, illustrated by ten magnificent 
plates, needs no comment, as the author’s well-known reputation 
is a sufficient guarantee of the quality of the work. Orestes St. 
John has had charge of the work of the Téton division, which 
seems to have been very thoroughly done, being illustrated by 
thirty-nine maps and sections of the region traversed by his party. 
The Green River division, in charge of Dr, A. C. Peale has done 
good work, care being taken to give proper credit to those who 
had previously worked in the same field; twenty-nine maps and 
sections, together with analytical and ordinary landscape views, 
illustrate Dr. Peale’s Report on the Green River country. 
Part 11 relates to the topographical work carried on by A. D. 
Wilson and Henry Gannett, topographers of the survey, by whom 
the work of triangulation seems to have been conducted with 
great care. Altogether, the volume before us is a good example 
of the high degree of skill attained by Dr. Hayden and his assis- 
tants, not only in carrying on their field work on a large scale, 
but also in presenting its results in graphic and readily available 
form for the use of the reading public. 
RECENT BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.—Paleontographica, Band XXVI, Heft 3. 
Beiträge zur Kentniss der fossilen Fische der Karpathen, Von Dragutin Kramber- 
1 Eleventh Annual Report of the United States Gealogical and Geographical Sur- 
vey of the Territories, embracing Idaho and ming, being a Report of POR 
of the Exploration tor the year 1877. By F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist. 
8vo, pp- 720, maps, plates and sections. Washington, D. C., 187 Advance 
copy, issued April, 1880.) 
