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of Bay of St. Francisco ; Map of vicinity of Mount Diablo ; Map of Coast- 

 ranges from Bay of Monterey south to Santa Barbara; Map of the 

 Washoe Silver-mining region ; Map of Comstock Lode ; Map of central 

 portion of Sierra Nevada ; ' Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connec- 

 ticut River,' by James Deane, M.I)., 62 pp. 4to, with 45 plates ; ' Notice 

 of some new species of Fossils from a locality of the Niagara group in 

 Indiana, with a list of identified species from the same place,' by Pro- 

 fessor James Hall; 'Die Ctenodipterinen des Devonischen Systems,' by 

 Dr. C. H. Pander (St. Petersburg, 1858); 'Ueber die Saurodipterinen, 

 Dendrodonten, Glvptolepiden, unci Cheirolepiden des Devonischen Sys- 

 tems,' by Dr. C. H. Pander (1860). The height of Mount Shasta^ in 

 California, has been fixed at 14,440 feet, by Mr. Whitney, the geological 

 surveyor. 



The September number of that journal has the following geological 

 articles : — "On the Coal-Measures of Cape Breton, N.B.," with a section, 

 by Mr. J. P. Lesley ; " On the G-enus Centronella," by Mr. E. Billings ; 

 " On Childrenite, from Hebron, in Maine," by Mr. George J. Brush ; 

 " On Meteoric Iron from Dakota Territory," by Dr. C. T. Jackson, of 

 Boston. Amongst the notices of new works are — 



Zusammenstellung der Statischeri Ergebnisse des Bergwerks, Hiitten- imd Salinen-Be- 

 triebes in dem Preussischen Staate wahrend der zehn Jahre von 1852 bis 1861. By E. 



Althaus. Berlin, 1853. Handbuch der Metallurgischen Huttenkunde, vol. ii. By 



Bruno Kerb Freiberg, 1863. Etat present de la Metallurgies du Fer en Angleterre. 



By MM. Gruner et Lan. Paris, 1862. Berg- und Huttenmannisches Jahrbuch der 



k. k. Bergakademien Leoben und Scbemnitz, und der k. k. Montan-Lehranstalt, Pribram 



Bedakteur. P. Turner. Vienna, 1863. Die Fortschritte der Metallurgischen Hiit- 



tengevverbes im Jahre 1862. By Dr. C. F. A. Hartmann. Leipzig, 1863. Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1862, Jurors' Report of Class L, Mining, Quarrying, Metal- 

 lurgy, and Mineral Products. By W. W. Smyth, F.R.S. London, 1862! Second 



Annual Report upon the Natural History and Geology of the State of Maine. 1862. 



Published 1863. Fossil Crustaceans from the Coal- Measures and Devonian Rocks of 



British America. By Mr. Salter. In Q. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. On the Cambrian 



and Huronian Formations. By Dr. J. J. Bigsby. In Q. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. 



On the Lower Carboniferous Brachiopoda of Nova Scotia. By T. Davidson, Esq. In 

 Q,. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. On the Fossil Estherias and their Distribution. By Pro- 

 fessor T. Rupert Joues. In Q. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. On a new Labyrinthodont 



Beptile, Avthracosaurus Russelli, from the Lanarkshire Coal-Field. By Professor T. 

 H. Huxley. In O. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. On the Production of Crystalline Lime- 

 stone by Heat. In Poggendorf, Ann., vol. cxviii. On the Flora of the Devonian 



Period in North-Eastern America. By Dr. J. W. Dawson. In Q. J. Geol. Soc, 

 1862. 



The ' Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science ' for October contains a very 

 interesting " Description of the Tonymore Crannoge," by Mr. W. R. 

 Wilde, with woodcut plans and views ; a paper " On some Striated Sur- 

 faces in the Granite near Dublin,' by the Rev. M. Close, — the striations 

 referred to being on the vertical faces of joints, and resembling Slick en- 

 slides ; a " Description of a New Species of Plesiosaurus from the Lias, 

 near Whitby," by Dr. A. Carte and Mr. W. H. Baily, with two plates, 

 — this Plesiosaurus being the very large and perfect one found on the 

 estate of the Marquis of Normanby, in July, 1848, in the Liassic beds of 

 the Kettleness Alum Works, and presented by that nobleman to the late 

 Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., and now in the Natural History Museum of 

 the Royal Dublin Society. The name given to this specimen, by the 

 author is P. Oramptoni. 



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