64 General Notes. 
of sulphides, chlorides, olivine, a magnetic ingredient and carbona- 
ceous matter.—Quite a large number of short papers recording the 
results of the analyses of meteoric irons have recently appeared in 
the journals. Mr. G. F. Kunz: has described the tenth meteoric 
iron actually seen to fall. Its fall took place on March 27th, 1886, 
at Cabin Creek, Johnson county, Ark.—The same author reports? 
the analysis by Mr. Whitfield of a meteor from Scottsville, Allen 
county, Ky.—A mass of meteoric iron? ploughed up three years 
ago in a field in St. Croix county, Wisconsin, shows cubically 
arranged Widmanstittian figures, very much like those character- 
izing Meunier’s jewellite group.—The Taney county, Missouri, 
meteorite and the meteoric irons from Chattooga county, Georgia, 
from Eastern Tennessee, from Waldron Ridge, and from Claiborne 
county, Tennessee, are briefly described by Mr. G. F. Kunz.A—A 
pallasite found at Campo de Pucará, in the State of Catamarca, of 
the Argentine Republic, is very similar® in aspect and mineralogi- 
cal composition to the pallasite of Imilac, Atacama. 
member of the solar system. The high character of the illustra- 
tions, noticed in former reviews, is maintained, and the number o 
references is still further increased. The entire volume, exclusive 
of index, contains 1087 pages, 504 illustrations, and references to 
414 topics.—Another very welcome addition to geological literature 
has appeared in the concluding part of the second volume of Roth’s 
“ Chemische Geologie.” ? This brochure embraces in its treatment 
the crystalline schists and the sedimentary rocks. Like the earlier 
' portions of the same volume, this part is especially valuable for the 
copious references to articles relating to the spread and character of 
these important classes of rocks—classes which have hitherto been 
neglected by writers of handbooks of petrography. The lists of — 
localities in which the different members of these great classes 0 
rocks are found, is very full, except in the case of North America, 
where it seems that many localities have been overlooked. The 
book, however, is one which no geologist can well afford to be 
without. 
1 Amer. Jour. Sci., June, 1887, p. 494. 
2 Amer. Jour. Sci., June, 1887, p. 500. 
3 D. Fisher: ib., Nov., 1887, p. 381. 
4 Ib., Dec., 1887, p. 467. 
5 E. Coben: Neues Jahrb. f. Min., ete., 1857, ii., p.45. ee 
6 Geologie von Bayern., Bd. I. Lief iv. v. Grundzüge der Geologie. 
Dr. K. W. von Giimbel. Kassel, 1887. Cf. American Naturalist, 1 
: 1J. Roth: Allgemeine und Chemische Geologie, Bd. II. Abt. 3. _ 
Berlin, 1887. Cf. American Naturalist, 1885, p. 1215. 4 
