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REVIEWS. 
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PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL VEY O SAS. 
G. C. Swallow, State Geologist. celiac atthe ihe. 8vo. 
Besides the General Report by Professor Swallow, this preliminary 
summery of the results of the Survey or Eastern and Central Kansas, 
contains wk reports upon the economical Geology of ten counties, 
by Maj. F. Hawn, with Reports upon the Climatology of the State, 
by Dr. Tiffin Sinks, and upon the “Sanitary Relations of the State,” 
by Dr. 
If the survey yh tay established the eas of extensive depo- 
sits of Gypsum, Salt, or Coal, it would have thrice repaid its expense 
to the State. Incalculable wealth may result ie a proper use of 
these discoveries, and the attractions they offer to the capital and la- 
r of the east are very great. The soils of the numerous valleys, and 
beds, with: their ‘“ gypsum marls,” are described as extremely rich. Even 
the Coal Measures, here unusually productive, are covered by the 
bluff formation which makes “the very best soils of the State.” The 
purely scientific interest of the Report we have no space to mention; 
it is almost wholly devoted to Economical Geology, and in this res- 
pect partakes of the general want of completeness manifested in many 
of our State Reports. This is in no way attributable to their scientific 
authors, but to the very limited pecuniary aid given them by our 
lators. This must necessarily render many of our State pepe super- 
ficial, and greatly inferior in point t of information and economical 
‘value to what they might be, were the work of the American Geolo- 
gist an Pert ar by popular ey e E pe - 
n A AR hein State ap- — 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD oF Waticce OF THE SMITHSONIAN 
INSTITUTION FOR 1865. Wasklagion. 1866. 8vo. 
There are but few naturalists, especially those residing away from 
the scientific centres of our country, who have not been aided and en- 
