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The Bulletin of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey 

 of the Territories, F. V. Hayden in charge (No. 4, second series, 

 June 10, 1875), contains "Notes on the Surface Features of the 

 Colorado or Front Range of the Rocky Mts. ;" by F. V. Hayden, 

 illustrated with fine panoramic views of the Colorado Mountains. 

 "The Tertiary Physopoda of Colorado," by S. II. Scndder, and 

 "Outlines of a Natural Arrangement of the Falconidre," by Rob- 

 ert Ridgway, with numerous outline cuts. We hare also received 

 -a "Preliminary Map of Central Colorado, showing the region sur- 

 veyed in 1873-4," by Hayden's Geological and Geographical 

 Survey of the Territories. 



The "Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1874," edited 

 by Spencer F. Baird, with the assistance of eminent men of sci- 

 ence, has recently been published by Harper & Brothers. It is a 

 large 12tm of 665 pages. This annual has met with the approval 

 of scientific as well as general students, and is the most reliable 

 and convenient book of the sort published in the language. Sev- 

 eral new features have been introduced, which make the present 

 volume still more useful than its predecessors. 



In an article in the " American Journal of Science," for May, 

 "On Dr. Koch's Evidence with regard to the Coteraporaneity of 

 Man and the Mastodon in Missouri," Professor Dana, on a review 

 of the evidence, thinks there is sufficient reason for regarding Dr. 

 Koch's evidence very doubtful, but that future discoveries will es- 

 tablish man's contemporaneity with the mastodon, for he existed 

 in Europe long before the extinction of the American mastodon. 



Sachs' elaborate and comprehensive "Text-book of Botany, 

 M..rph..l.^ir;d and Phy-dolo-ic-d, has been translated and anno- 

 tated by Alfred W. Bennett, assisted by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 

 both excellent authorities. The work is published in sumptuous 

 styh- by Messrs. Macmillan. Price Si 2.50. Received from A. A. 

 Smith & Co., Salem. For sale by Lee & Shepard, Boston. 



