648 Recent Literature. [ August, 
worth thinks he has proved that the eastern sandstone conform- 
ably underlies the copper-bearing rocks, and that both are of the 
same geological age, and that the evidence brought forward by 
r. Rominger until disproved, shows that Messrs. Foster and 
(Nos. 111, 1v, May 1881). No. 11 is on an occurrence of gold in 
Maine, at Sullivan, Hancock county. No. tv, is of considerable 
interest, being a microscopical study of the iron ore, or peridotite 
of Iron Mine hill, Cumberland, R. I. The rock is similar to the 
celebrated iron ore of Taberg, Sweden, which has been worked 
for over 300 years. As it was impossible by field observations to 
determine the origin of the rock, Mr. Wadsworth concludes that 
it is most probably eruptive in its nature. This examination may 
serve, the author adds, as an illustration of the aid that microscop!- 
cal lithology may be to the practical side of life. hate 
Tue Economic Enromotocy or Ontario, CANADA.1—This 2 
one of a series of reports which have been annually cal 
since 1870 by a Society which has done much good, both in the 
Provinces and in the United States, towards compiling and ot 
ing a knowledge of the habits of our more injurious insec : 
These reports are mostly made up of compilations from mavens 
authors, and while the scientific organ of the Society, the Cava 7 
Entomologist, which has many contributors in the States, publis a 
much that is new about our common injurious insects, It wou 
be well if our Canadian friends could find the opportunity a 
make and publish in their Annual Report original saieeighiee , 
for the field is a wide one, and original observers are sadly nee e ; 
Tne Geotocy oF Inprana.2W—While the larger proportion a 
this report is devoted to statistics and allied subjects, yan he 
hundred pages bear upon the geology and paleontology Of. A 
State, the latter comprising descriptions of the more Sense 
fossils of Indiana, by Dr. C. A. White, adapted for the use 0 
public and beginners in the study. rien ie 
RECENT Books AND PAMPHLETS.—Klassen und Ordnungen des Thee ae 
Dr. H. G. Bronn, Fortgesetzt von C. K. Hoffmann, Prof. 1 Jates. 
Band, 111, Abtheilung. Reptilien, 16. und 17. Lieferung. 12vo, pp- 68, 3 P 
Leipzig und Heidelberg, 1881. From the editors. Fraas. 
Simosaurus pusillus, aus der Lettenkohle von Holeneck, von Dr. Oscar 
Separat-Abdruck ans den Wiirttemb. Naturw, Jahreshefien, Jahrg. 1881. $v PP: 
6, 1 plate. From auth r. 
Paleoethnologie de L’Antiquité de L’Homme dans les Alpes-Maritimesy Pe 
Emile Riviére. Planches en chromo-lithographie par J. Cillay. Gravures 
par Guzman. 4vo, pp. 31, IV, plates. Paris, 1881. From the author. 
; : the 
1 Annual Report of the Entomological Society of the Province of One, f yes 
year 1880. Printed by order of the Legislative Assembly, Toronto, 1551- 
pp. 
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* Second Annual Report of the Department of Statistics and Geology, 1880+ ( y 
Joun Cotter, Chief of Bureau.) Indianapolis, 1880. 8vo, pp- 544: 
