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system, except where prefatory pages numbered with such figures 
have to be cited. 
The system just described is essentially that used by most 
American botanists (outside of New England) at the present time, 
and its advantages over the awkward and antiquated methods of 
using Roman volume numbers, parentheses, the abbreviation pp., etc. 
and sandwiching dates in between volume and page numbers, as 
still practiced by several other classes of scientists, ought to be 
self-evident. 
Bulletins, monographs, and annual reports of geological surveys, 
proceedings of learned societies, etc., are treated in about the same 
way. Where a work cited forms a volume by itself the total num¬ 
ber of pages and illustrations—instead of the first and last—and the 
city where published are usually given. 
The names of authors are., arranged alphabetically, and where 
two or more papers by the same author are mentioned these are 
arranged chronologically. 
GENERAL WORKS. 
Ashley, G- H. The maximum rate of deposition of coal. Econ. Geol. 2: 34-47. 
f. 2-6. 1907. 
Contains valuable data on the rate of accumulation of peat. 
Bartlett, H. H. The submarine Chamaecyparis bog at Woods Hole,, Massa¬ 
chusetts. Rhodora 11: 221-235. pi. 82. Dec., 1909. 
An interesting study of the development of a peat bog, which has some 
bearing on Florida problems. 
Bastin, E. S., and Davis, C. A. Peat deposits of Maine. U. S. Geol. Surv. 
Bull. 376. 127 pp., 2 plates, 20 figs., and folded map. 1909. 
Reviewed in Jour. Am. Peat Soc. 2: 73-74. 1909. 
Beyer, S. W. Peat deposits in Iowa. Iowa Geol. Surv. 19: 689-733. “1909T 
(1910). 
Contains many analyses and a bibliography of Iowa peat (the latter com¬ 
piled by J. H. Lees). Although the author makes no record of the fact, sum¬ 
mer is the wet season in Iowa, as in Florida, and this has doubtless favored the 
accumulation of peat in a comparatively dry climate. 
Bulask, F. J. A brief history of peat development in Michigan. Jour. Anx 
Peat Soc. 1: 30-33. 1908. 
Campbell, M. R. Peat. U. S. Geol. Surv. Mineral Resources 1906: 1211-1212. 
1907. 
Contains a brief mention of. Florida peat, among other things. 
Chrysler, M. A. Peat bogs [in Anne Arundel County, Maryland], Plant Life 
of Md. (Md. Weather Service, vol. 3) 185, pi. 16.1. 1910. 
Clarke, F. W. The data of geochemistry. U. S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 330. 716 
pp. 1908. 
Notes on peat on pages 645-648, 663-666. 
