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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.D., 62 pp. 4to, vrith 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, und 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 Genus 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 — 
Zusammcnstcllunn; der Statischen Ergebnisse des Bergwcrks, Hiitten- und Sahnen-Be- 
triebes in dem Preussischen Staate wiihrcnd der zehn Jahre von 1852 bis 1861. By E. 
Althaus. Berlin, 1853. Handbuch der Metallui-frischen Hiitteiikunde, vol. ii. By 
Bruno Kerl. Freiberg, 1863. Etat present de la Metallurgie dn Fer en Angleterre. 
By MM. Gruner et Lan. Paris, 1862. Berg- und lluttenmannischcs Jahrbuch der 
k. k. Bergakademicn Leoben und Schemuitz, und der k. k. Montan-Lehranstalt, Pribram 
Redakteur. P. Turner. Vienna, 1863. Die Fortschritte der Metallurgischen Hiit- 
tengewerbcs im Jahre 1862. By Dr. C. F. A. Hartmann. Leipzig, 1863. Inter- 
national Exhibition of 1862, Jurors' Report of Class I., ^Mining, Quarrying, Metal- 
lurgy, and Mineral Products. By W. AV. 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 Estherise and their Distribution. By Pro- 
fessor T. Rupert Jones. In Q. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. On a new Labyrinthodont 
Reptile, Aiithracosaurus Russelli, from the Lanarkshire Coal-Field. By Professor T. 
H. Huxley. In Q,. J. Geol. Soc, vol. xix. Ou 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 Slicken- 
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 Eoyal Dublin Society. The name given to this specimen by the 
author is P. Cramptoni. 
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