1877.] Scientific Serials. — 639 
N.S. Shaler, On the Recent Formation of a Small Anticlinal Axis in Lin- 
coln County, Kentucky ; E. D. Cope, On the Origin of Structural Vari- 
ation; A. R. Grote and W. H. Pitt, New Specimens from the Water 
Lime Group at Buffalo; Samuel J. Wallace, On Geodes and Other 
Fossiloids ; James E. Todd, On the Annual Deposits of the Missouri 
River during the Post-Pliocene; Ernst Gundlach, A New Periscopic 
Eye-Piece; Alexis A. Julien, Accessories adapted to Lithological 
Investigation ; George W. Morehouse, Objectives as Illuminators; C. 
Leo Mees, On the Use of Ordinary Low-Power Objectives for Photog- 
raphy; R. H. Ward, On the Cellular Structure of Dentine ; On a Mod- 
ification of Wenham’s Reflex Illuminator; T. O. Summers, Jr., On the 
Relative Values of the Powers of Objectives and Eye-Pieces ; T. Sterry 
Hunt, Notes on the Silurian Waters of Washoe, Nevada; Shuze Isawa, 
On the Origin of the Japanese; Garrick Mallery, The Former and 
Present Numbers of our Indians; Henry Gillman, Additional Facts 
concerning Artificial Perforations of the Cranium in Ancient Mounds in 
Michigan; Edwin A. Barber, Habits of the Mogui Tribe; J. W. Powell, 
Some Popular Errors concerning the North American Indians; Alexis 
A. Julien, On the Ancient Excavations of Western North Carolina; H. 
N. Rust, Report on the Exploration of the Graves of the Mound Build- 
ers in Scott and Mississippi Counties, Missouri; J. W. Powell, Introduc- 
tion to the Study of Indian Languages; Joseph B. Killebrew, Geology 
and Topography of the Oil Regions of Tennessee and the Oil Springs 
and Wells; T. Sterry Hunt, Notes on the Geology of the Rocky Mount- 
ains; James M. Safford, Notes of a Specimen of Cyrtodonta ventricosa 
from the Lower Silurian; A. E. Wetherby, The Variation of Certain 
F resh-Water Mollusks of the United States, and their Geographical 
Distribution ; J. H. Huntington, Geology of the Region on the Head 
aters of the Androscoggin River; E. D. Cope, On the Characters of 
a New Cretaceous Saurian from the Rocky Mountains; E. L. Drake, A 
Section of McKinny Hill, Tennessee; B. S. Hedrick, On the Use to be 
made of Post Route Maps in the Advancement of Science: E. T. Cox, 
Geological Position and Mode of Origin of Hydrated Brown Oxide of 
Tron; R. L. Kirkpatrick, On the Relation of Organ to Function, or of 
Form in General to Mode of Energy received and exerted; James A. 
Ridley, On the Fibre of Gossypium herbaceum (cotton plant) consid- 
ered with Reference to a Practical Application of its Manufacture. 
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Tar GroLocIcaL Macazine.— August. Across Europe and 
Traveling Notes (Part II.), St. Petersburg to Perm, by 
ohn Milne. A Sketch of the Geology of Keighley, Skipton, and 
Grassington, by J. R. Dakyns. Notes on the Correlation of the Beds 
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