1878.] Scientific Serials. 641 
Cut a path up Mt. Willey, along the north bank of the brook 
act 400 metres is mile) south of Moore’s Brook flag station 
on the P.& O, R. R 
4. Cut a path around Frankenstein Cliffs, following up Bemis 
Brook to Arethusa Falls, crossing to the falls above Ripley’s on 
Cow Brook, and descending along the latter brook. 
5. Cut a path from the Ponds, near Greeley’s, Waterville, 
through to Sawyer’s River R. R. , Upper Bartlett, with a branc 
up Mt. Carrigain. 
6. Cut a path to the top of Moosilauke from Woodstock, fol- 
lowing up the Moosilauke River. 
7. Measure and mark, metrically, the new Moat Mt. piik 
8. Construct a camp in King’s Ravine, as near the Head Wall, 
as water may always be found. 
9. Construct a camp on the Mt. Carrigain. branch path, as far 
up as water may always be found. 
10. Mark meridian lines pointing to true north, in White Mt. 
region about 13° E. of magnetic north. 
It is expected that a party, with headquarters at the Mt. Craw- 
ford House, will be at work on Mt. Willey and around Franken- 
stein Cliffs, between July 4th and 1oth, and Appalachians inter- 
prh are invited to assist. 
ncillor may be addressed at Weymouth, Mass. W.G. 
Nowell Cannciltor of Improvements. 
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SCIENTIFIC SERIALS. 
BULLETIN OF Haypen’s U. S. GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL 
SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES —No. 3, Vol. IV. July 29th, 1878. 
Field-notes on Birds observed in Dakota and Montana along the 
Forty-ninth Parallel, during the seasons of 1873 and 1874, by Dr. 
Elliott Coues, U. S. A., late Surgeon and Naturalist U. S. North- 
ern Boundary Commission. Notes on a Collection of Fishes from 
the Rio Grande, at Brownsville, Texas, continued, by D. S. Jor- 
dan, M.D. Preliminary Studies on the North American Pyralidæ, 
E, by A. R. Grote. Palæontological Papers, No. 6. Descriptions 
of New Species of Invertebrate Fossils irom the Laramie Group, 
by C. A. White, M.D. Palzontological Papers, No. 7. On the 
Distebdtion of Molluscan Species in the Laramie Group, by C. 
A. White, M.D. On some dark Shale recently discovered below 
the Devonian Limestones at Independence, Iowa, with a notice 
of its Fossils and description of new species, by S. Calvin, Pro- 
fessor of Geology, State ien A of Iowa. On the Mineralogy 
z Nevada, by W. J. Hoffman, 
