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GEOLOGICAL Survey oF ALaABAMA.'—The first quarter of this 
volume of more than six hundred pages is devoted to a tolerably 
full consideration of the soil in its chemical and geological rela- 
tions, and its relations to vegetable and animal life, with an ac- 
count of the various manures and of their suitableness and action 
upon different kinds of soil. The second and larger part treats 
of the main agricultural features of the State, including an out- 
line of its physical geography and geology. The Coosa and 
Tennessee valleys, coal measures district, oak. and pine uplands 
and other regions of the State are described in detail, a list of the 
characteristic plants of each region is given, an the work con- 
cludes with descriptions of the agricultural resources of the coun- 
ties, and cultural and economic details of cotton production. An 
agricultural map and maps showing the rainfall, temperature, area 
planted in cotton, etc., add greatly to the usefulness of the work. 
RECENT BooKS AND PAMPHLETS, 
— Soc. of New York. D ena = . the Linnzean Society of New York, 
From the socie 
Collett, J.—Geolog y and Na tural ales a eee 13th report, 1883. Part L 
Geology and Raai History; Part 1r, Palæontology. From the State geolo- 
Lacy, w M.—An examination of oe Po of the unknowable, PETE 
ii Herbert Spencer, ra m the au 
7 thse A.—Sur un Mabuya d’espéce nouvelle, eu Note § r un poisson de les 
famille des Cyprinodontide. Ext. du Bulletin de la See. " Philomathique de 
é 1881. or, 
Paris, Mars, he authc 
Lydekker, R.—Mem. Geol. Surv. India. Palæontologia Indica, Ser. Z ta u 
Part. 3. Rodents and new ruminants from the Siwaliks, and Synopsis of Mam- 
malia. Calcutta, 1884. From the author. 
Rasse, C., Kliver, M., Schlosser, M., Schenk, A— Abate «agate Beitrage zur 
e : . Cassel, 1384. m M. Schlo ai 
Schlosser, M.—Die ager de europäischen Tertiars nebst aka über die 
ee c 
Organisation und die re Farida der Nager überhaupt, Cas- 
sel, 1884. From the author 
Guldberg, G G. A. ae Vexistence d'une quatrième espèce du genre Salers 
dans les mers Septentrionalis de l’Europe. Ext. du Bulletin Acad. Roy 
Belg. gme seri , tome vil, 188 
——Sur la présence e, au mps anciens et modernes de la "a ze — (on 
i Noristper) sur les ni de Norwége, Ext. idem. Bo th fr ur 
, M. E.—Methods of instruction in Mineralogy. Abs papers 
ag Soc Nat. E. U. `., Dec, 27, 1883, also letter to Science, a food. 
Notes on ie rocks and ore-deposits in the vicinity of Notre Dame bay, New- 
foundland. Ext. Am. Jour. of Science, Vol. xxvill, Aug.. I oa 
Sas aeea parallel sick Ext. Proc. Bost. ay Ka Hist., Vol, XXII, Oct.» 
3. Š 
On the evidence that a =— interior is solid. Ext, Amer. Nat, June, 
‘ All from the auth 
pena Survey of Alabama. Report for the years 1881 and 1882. By Evu- 
E ALLEN SMITH, Ph.D., State geologist., 1883. 
