882020 
APRIL, 1896. 
THE 
VOL. XVII. 
AMERICAN 
GEOLOGIST 
A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 
GEOLOGY AIB ALLIED SCIENCES. 
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Page 
Apparent Anomalies of the Postyille 
; Well, Samuel Calvin . 195 
Englacial Drift, W. O. Crosby... .. 203 
Further Examination of the Fisher Meteo¬ 
rite, N. H. Winchell. [Illustrated.].. 23d 
Editorial Comment. 
Glacial Lakes of the St. Lawrence Basin, 
238.—Antartica, 241. 
Review of Recent Geological Literature. 
Greenland Icefields and Life in the North 
‘ Atlantic, G. F. Wright and Warren 
Upham , 243.—Unter Tertiare Selachier 
aus Sudrussland, Otto Jaekel , 245.—Geo¬ 
logical Structure of the Western Part of 
the Vermilion Range, Minn., H. L. Smyth 
* ■ and J. R. Finlay , 247.—British Geology, 
T. M. Reade, 248.—Les Spiriferes du Cob- 
lenzien Beige, Ferd. R6clard, 249.—Phy¬ 
sical. Features and Geology of the route 
of the proposed Ottawa Canal, R. W. 
Ells a,nd A. E. Barlow , 250.—-Physical 
Page 
Geography of Southern New England, W. 
M. Davis , 250.—Geology of Moriah and 
Westport Townships, Essex County, N. 
v Y., J. F. Kemp,' 251.—Geological History 
of the Chautauqua Grape Beit, R. S. Tarr, 
251.—Dikes of Oligocene Sandstone in 
Neocomian clays, A. P. Pavlow, 251. 
Recent Publications ..... 251 
Correspondence. 
Preliminary Notes on Studies of the Great 
Lakes made in 1895, F. B. Taylor , 253. 
Personal and Scientific Notes. 
General Notes, 257.—Buried Timber in 
Glacial Lake Beaches, 259.—Coal Fields 
of Newfoundland, 259.—Erosion of the St. 
Croix Dalles* 260.—Glacial Drift Island 
in Barents Sea, 260.—S. Sekiya, 261.— 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science, 
261.—New York Academy of Sciences, 
263. —Geological Society of Washington, 
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