402 The American Naturalist. [May, 



conclusion that dolomites are essentially offshore products. (Journ. 

 Geol., Vol. Ill, 1895.) 



B. Kiimmel indicate 

 and Surgar Loaf in 

 Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It has been hitherto held by the 

 Pennsylvania State Geologists that these peaks were nunataks. (Amer. 

 Journ. Sci., 1876.) 



According to Dr. Grossmann, glacial phenomena in the Faeroes com- 

 prise roche moutounees, glacial stria?, glacial mounds and boulder 

 clay. The author states that there is no doubt that the islands had a 

 glaciation of their own, a conclusion which is inconsistent with the hy- 

 pothesis of a big northern ice cap. (Geog. Journ., Vol. VII, 1896.) 



(Alces) in the fragmentary specimens from the Tourasse caverns in the 

 southwestern part of France. From the evidence of other remains, M. 

 Kegnault fixed the age of this cave as intermediate between late Paleo- 

 lithic and Neolithic. The presence of lion remains at Tourasse shows 

 that this carnivore lingered long in the Pyrenees. (L'Anthropol., 

 1894.) 



Cave Explorations in Tennessee.— We discovered the tapir- 

 peccary layer in the cave breccia together with a later fauna in a layer 

 of cave earth, associated with Indian remains, in Zirkel's Cave near 

 Mossy Creek, east Tennessee. Prof. Cope, our informant, had pre- 

 viously found the former in 1869.— H. C. Mercer. 



BOTANY. 1 



The Conifers of the Pacific Slope. — Every botanist who is 

 interested in the Conifers (and what botanist is not?) will be pleased 

 with the pocket edition of Mr. J. G. Lemmon's " Hand-book of West 

 American Cone-bearers," which appeared somewhat less than a year 

 ago. It is a duodecimo volume of about a hundred pages, and includes 

 seventeen half-tone plates, from photographs, of the foliage, cones, and 

 other characteristic features. The text consists of brief descriptions of 

 the genera and species, interspersed with notes, discussions and narra- 



1 Edited by Prof. C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. 



