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chiefly derived from the destruction of Cretaceous strata, and in places 
abound in fossil bones and plants, usually in a fine state of preservation. 
The bones have been usually found in excavations for wells, at depths 
varying from twenty to sixty feet below the surface, and consist of genera 
closely allied to, or identical with Titanotherium, Rhinoceros , Eqnus, and 
Crocodilus. Among the plants are several species of palms, a fine collec- 
tion of which has been made by Dr. Gideon Lincecum, of Long Point, 
Washington Co., and by him presented to the State cabinet. 
The Miocene beds are surmounted at some localities, as at Hidalgo 
Falls, with a pebbly deposit cemented with ferruginous matter into a 
coarse pudding-stone or conglomerate. This deposit has yielded in more 
or less abundance the bones of Mastodon, Elephas, Megalonyx, Eqnus 
( E . fossilis), Crocodilus, and Testudo . 
The collections of the Texas Survey are rapidly increasing in all the 
departments. The series of Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils are already 
very extensive, and when properly studied will throw much light on 
some disputed points in the Geology of Texas and New Mexico. 
Donations to the library were received as follows : 
Bull. Amer. Ethnolog. Soc., and Report on the Huacas or Ancient 
Graveyards of Chiriqui, read before the Ethnolog. Soc. by J. King Mer- 
rit, M.D., N. York, i860,— from the Ethnolog. Soc.; Bull, de la Soc. Imp. 
zoolog. d J Acclimation, Paris, No. 9, Sept. 1860, from the Society; Sit— 
zungsberichte der K. K. Akad. der Wissensch, Wien, Nos. 3-5, 7-8 
Band XXXIV.-XL., Jan^to Ap, 
der K. K. Geol. Reichs., Wien, 1859 
0 ,from the Imperial Academy; Jahrb. 
HH JHi..., , , X. Jahrg., Nos. 3-4 ,from ihe Impe- 
rial Society"; Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. of Machester, Eng., 2d Ser., Vol. 
XV., Pt. 2, I860,— Proc. of same, 1858-9, Nos. 1-16, and 1859-60, Nos. 1 
-14, from the Society; Geolog. Uebersicht der Bergbaue der Oestr. 
Monarchic von Franz Ritter von Hauer u. Franz Fcetterle mit einem 
Vorworte von Wilhelm Haidinger, Wien, 1855, — Bericht, fiber die 
erste Allgemeine Versammlung von Berg und Hfittenmannern zu Wien, 
der Oberhessischen Gesellsch ffir Natur. und Heilkunde, Giessen, 1859, 
from the Society ; Atti dell I. R. Istit. Veneto, Tomo V., Serie III., 1-7, 
1859-60, from the Institute ; Verhand. K. K. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 
1859, IX. Band, from the Society; Archiv. der Ver. d. Freunde der Na- 
turgeschichte in Mecklenburg, 14 Jahrg., Neubrandenburg, I860, from the 
Society; Mittheil. aus dem Osterlande, XV. Band, Heft 1-2, 1860, Alten- 
burg, from the Society ; Ueber die Warme-Entwicklung in der Pflan- 
zen, deren Gefrieren und die Schutzmittel gegen dasselbe, von H. R. 
Goeppert, Breslau, 1830,— Uber die Flora der Silur. Devon, und unteren 
Kohlen Form, oder des sogenannten Uebergangs-Gebirges, von Goppert, 
Dec. 1859, from Prof, yon Goppert; Sitzungsb. der Dorpater Narurforsch. 
Gesel., 1853-6, Dorpat, from the Society ; Nachrichten von der George 
August. Univ. u. d. Konigl. Geaellsch. d. Wiss. zu Goettingen, 1859, 
No. 1-20, from the Royal Society; Verhand. u. Mittheil. des Sieben- 
bergischen Vereins ffir Nat. zu Hermanstadt, Jahrg. X., No. 7-12, 1859, 
from the Society ; Ueber die Wohnsitze der Brachiopoden, von Prof. Ed. 
Suess, Wien, 1860, from the Author; Annual Rep. of the Leeds Phil. & 
Lit. Soc. for 1859-60,— Proc. Geol. & Polytech. Soc. of the West Riding 
of Yorkshire for 1859, Leeds, I860,— The Physical Condition of the Peo- 
ple in its bearing upon their Social and Moral Welfare, by the Rt. Rev. 
R Bickersteth, Leeds, i860,— Sensorial Vision, by Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 
Bart., Leeds, 1858, from the Society; Archiv. ffir die Naturkunde, Ser. I. 
Bd. I., Lf. 1-3, Bd. II. Lf. 1-2, Ser. II. Bd. I. Lf. 1-5, 1854-59, Dorpat, 
from the Dorpater Naturforsch. Gesellsch. ; Jahresbericht der Naturf. Ge- 
sellsch. in Emden, 1859, Kleine Schriften VI.-VII., 1860, from the So- 
ciety; Mem. de PAcademie Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 7e. Ser., 
T. II., No. 1-3, 1859, — Bulletin, T. I., Feuilles, 7-36 , from the Imperial 
Academy ; Proc. of the Histor. Soc. of New York, Oct. 1853,— Ruins of 
Terrampua, by E. G. Squier, — Memoir on the European Civilization of 
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