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fossils from the Palaeozoic rocks of the Mississippi valley, S. A. Miller 
and W. F. E. Gurley. 65 pp., 5 pis., Feb. 18, 1896. 
Iowa Geol. Sur. Administrative reports, Samuel Calvin, H. F. Bain, 
W. H. Norton, A. G. Leonard. Vol. 5, pp. 8-31, 1896. 
Missouri Geol, Sur. Sheet report 4: A report on the Mine la Motte 
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partment for the year 1895, G. M. Dawson. 154 pp., 1896. Price 10 
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osteology of Agriochoerus, J. L. Wortman; Notes on some specimens of 
minerals from Washington heights, New York City, E. O. Hovey; Peris- 
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L. Wortman. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1895, pt. 3, 1896. Preliminary note on 
a new alkali mineral, W. M. Foote; The fossil Vertebrata from the fis¬ 
sure at Port Kennedy, Pa., E. D. Cope; The Port Kennedy deposit, 
Angelo Heilprin; Trap dykes in Chester Co., Pa., T. D. Rand. 
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 7, pp. 135-170, Jan. 10, 1896. Studies of 
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R. T. Jackson. 
Same, pp. 255-314, pis. 10-14, Feb. 4,1896. Decomposition of- rocks in 
Brazil, J. C. Branner. 
Bull, of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of New Brunswick, no. 13, 1896. The 
volcanic rocks of the maritime provinces of Canada, W. D. Matthew. 
III. Papers in Scientific Journals. 
Science, Feb. 14. The age of the Philadelphia brick clay, G. F. 
Wright. 
Science, Feb. 21. Current notes on physiography, W. M. Davis. 
Science, Feb. 28. The origin and relations of the floras and faunas 
of the Antarctic and adjacent regions, Angelo Heilprin, W. B. Scott, 
N. L. Britton, A. S. Packard, Theo. Gill, J. A. Allen. 
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Current notes on physiography, W. M. Davis. 
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sults of recent pendulum observations, G. R. Putnam; Trinidad pitch, 
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North Carolina. E. A. de Schweinitz; New alkali hornblende and a tit- 
aniferous andradite from the nepheline-syenite of Dungannon, Hastings 
Co., Ontario, F. D. Adams and J. B. Harrington; Proofs of the rising 
of the land aro.und Hudson bay, Robert Belk Occurrence of thausma- 
site at West Paterson, New Jersey, S. L. Penfield and J. H. Pratt; Age 
of the Wealden, O. C. Marsh. 
