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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



'The Spell of A love of solitary ramblings among the Rockies 

 THE Rockies."* in midwinter has involved Mr. Mills in many 

 stirring adventures during the course of his 

 twenty years of mountain experience. The most absorbing chap- 

 ters of "The Spell of the Rockies," however, are those recording 

 not his adventures but his observations, especially those relating 

 to the wild animals. His description of a beaver colony, the 

 destruction of its settlement by a forest fire, and the journey of 

 the refugees, thirty or forty strong, across country to the pond 

 of a neighboring colony outside the fire zone, forms a most en- 

 grossing narrative. "A Rainy Day at the Stream's Source," 

 "Racing an Avalanche," "The Forest Fire," "Insects in the 

 Forest," and "The Estes Park Region," are subjects of other 

 chapters. Illustrations, type, and paper are all excellent and the 

 book stands high among the out-of-door volumes of the season. 



M. R. P. 



"An Excursion to "Studies in the Formation of Alpine Cirques, 

 THE YosEMiTE."t 'Steps,' and Valley Treads'," is the sub- 

 title of this monograph. The author, Mr. 

 E. C. Andrews, of the Department of Mines, Sydney, Australia, 

 makes a detailed study of the evidences of glacial corrosion in 

 the Yosemite region. "The Psychological Factor in the History 

 of the Glacial Controversy," "Topography of the Yosemite 

 Locality," "The Mechanics of Streams," and "Yosemite Profiles," 

 are the principal divisions of his subject. A copy of this paper 

 is in the Le Conte Memorial Lodge Library, and visitors to the 

 Yosemite interested in the geology of the region will find it par- 

 ticularly valuable in connection with their own observations on 

 the ground. M. R. P. 



"Photographing One of our members, Mr. Ford A. Carpenter, 

 Red Snow." Local Forecaster of the United States Weather 



Bureau at San Diego, has published an ex- 

 cellent little article entitled "Photographing 'Red Snow.' " It 

 appeared in the Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural 

 History, Vol. I, No. 3, November, 191 1, and has for a frontis- 

 piece a beautiful color print from an autochrome made on Lam- 

 bert Dome. 



*The Spell of the Rockies. By Enos A. Mills. Houghton Mifflin Co., 

 Boston and New York. 191 1. Illustrations from photographs by the 

 Author, 348 pages. Price, $1.75 net. 



t/4n Excursion to the Yosemite (California), or Studies in the Forma- 

 tion of Alpine Cirques, "Steps," and Valley "Treads." By E. C. Andrews, 

 B. A., Department of Mines, Sydney. Reprinted from Journal and Pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Vol. XLIV. 



