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Victoria : Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines to the Honour- 
able the Minister of Mines , for the year 1879. Melbourne : 
Ferres. 
This report is devoted to the statistics of mining accidents and 
the means for their prevention. One man appears to have been 
poisoned by the fumes of burning nitro-glycerine. 
Victoria ; Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars. 
Quarter ending March 31, 1880. Melbourne : Ferres. 
The total amount of gold obtained during the quarter is 
i 79,949 ozs. 12 dwts., of which 66,174 ozs * 1 dwt. is from allu- 
vial deposits, and 113,775 ozs * 11 dwts. from quartz reefs. 
Records of the Geological Survey of India. Vol. XIII., Part 3. 
1880. 
This part contains an account of the Kumann Lakes, by Mr. 
W. Theobald, who maintains their glacial origin in opposition to 
Mr. Ball. 
The same author communicates a notice of a celt of palaeo- 
lithic type which he found near Shodipur, on the Indus. Kishen 
Singh, of the Geological Survey, had previously found a similar 
article near Rhotas, in the Punjab, but had thrown it away in 
ignorance of its nature. 
Dr. Feistmantel furnishes palaeontological notes from the coal- 
fields of Karharbari and South Rewah, and also notes on the 
correlation of the Gondwana flora with other floras. 
Mr. W. King gives a note on the artesian wells of Pondicherri. 
Mr. Hacket discusses the occurrence of salt in the soils and 
waters of Rajputana. 
There are also some notices of an eruption of gas and mud 
on the coast of Arakan in 1843, and again in 1879. 
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia 
Indica. Ser. XIII. Salt-range Fossils. By W. Waagen. 
Ph.D. Calcutta : Geological Survey Office. London : 
Trtibner and Co. 
This issue is devoted to the Gasteropoda, with a Supplement 
relating to Ashes and cephalopods. 
