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Jaekel of the Berlin Museum, in his “ Beitrage zur Kenntniss der 
Palaeozoischen Crinoiden Deutschlands ” ( Palceont . Abhandl., VII, 
Heft. 1, p. 44; Jena, 1895.) 
The remark of Messrs. Miller and Gurley is therefore much as though 
they were to say: “ It must be apparent to any one having been a stu¬ 
dent of the Vertebrata that a whale is not more nearly related to the 
Mammalia than it is to the Reptilia.” Such a student would indeed 
be one of the “ have-beens.” 
This review has dealt with only a page and a quarter of the Bulletin; 
but that may serve as a fair sample of all Mr. S. A. Miller’s writings on 
Palaeozoic crinoids, whether by himself or in collaboration with some 
other collector or state-official. Now the publication of some sixty 
“ new species ” of this character per annum is a serious matter to var¬ 
ious classes of people: first, to zoologists and paleontologists generally, 
who are led astray by a publication that they fondly suppose to be 
issued with some authority : secondly, to bibliographers, who have the 
no small labour of recording these lists of names ; thirdly, to specialists, 
who have the wearisome and sisyphean task of revising these ill-ordered 
masses year by year; fourthly, to American men of science, who run 
the risk of being confused by the outside public with the Millers and 
Gurleys of their country ; fifthly, to Governor John P. Altgeld, Secre¬ 
tary William H. Hinrichsen, Superintendent S. M. Inglis, and all the 
people of Illinois, the reputation of whose State Museum is being rapidly 
ruined and whose money is being squandered with little other result 
than the enrichment of the private collections of state-paid officials. 
I regret to see a man of Mr. S. A. Miller’s undoubted ability led away 
by this lust for coining new names. Mr. Miller has done good work 
for science, and his catalogue of American fossils has made his name 
known and his labours valued in all civilised countries. If nothing else 
will serve, let us try the effect of a strong personal appeal to Mr. Miller, 
to cease burying his talent in, not a napkin, but a heap of waste-paper 
or worse, and to devote it once more to his Bibliography, which will 
bring him in far greater returns. F. A. Bather. 
Geological Survey of New Jersey , Annual Report for 1894. John C. 
Smock, State Geologist. (Pages 304, with a large folded map of the 
surface formations in the valley of the Passaic, and eleven plates. 
Trenton, N. J., 1895.) The first half of this volume is a report of pro¬ 
gress in the exploration and study of the surface geology, by Prof. 
Rollin D. Salisbury, assisted by Messrs. Kummel, Peet, and Knapp, 
with the large map before mentioned and four plates. In the next 77 
pages Lewis Woolman treats of artesian wells in the Miocene and Cre¬ 
taceous strata of the southern part of the State, with six plates ; and 
the remainder of the volume is chiefly occupied by reports on forestry, 
for the northern part by C. C. Vermeule, and for southern New Jer¬ 
sey by John Gifford, with a map showing the percentage of areas in 
forest. 
The glacial and stratified drift, glacial striae, changes of drainage 
during the Ice age, and postglacial changes, in northern and central 
