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authors and many of them are recognized authorities in the sub- 
jects which they have discussed. The total number of fossil species 
described is stated to be G52. The mammals, birds and reptiles 
are described by Case of Milwaukee; the iishes by Eastman of Cam- 
bridge; the ostracods, bryozoans and hydrozoans by Ulrich and 
Bassler of Washington; the corals by Vaughan of Washington; the 
foraminifers by Bagg of Springfield; and the plants by Hollick of 
New York and Boyer of Philadelphia. The remaining chapters 
were prepared by members of the Maryland Survey, the lamelli- 
branchs by Glenn, now of Nashville; the other molluscs, the brach- 
iopods, the worms, the radiolarians, and most of the crustaceans, by 
Martin, now of Washington, and the echinoderms by Clark. The 
report is illustrated by a map showing the distribution of the Mio- 
cene deposits in Maryland, a chart of columnar sections, seven 
plates giving excellent views of Miocene sections and 126 plates 
of fossils. The beautiful and accurate drawings of the fossils are 
largely the work of the late Dr. J. C. McConnell, whose early death 
is a severe loss to American paleontology. 
Finally, it is worthy of note that in this age of commercialism 
the Maryland Geological Survey, like that of New York, still 
stands for scientific scholarship and the real advancement of the 
science. Its volumes, written or edited in the halls of Johns Hop- 
kins university, bring to the reader the spirit of research which 
pervades that institution, and, like it, stand for what is best in 
scientific scholarship. In closing I desire to quote and endorse 
the last paragraph of professor Schuchert's review of this work. 
He says: "These volumes should be in the hands not only of strati- 
graphers and paleontologists, but of all teachers of historical geol- 
ogy as well, for here is given not only a detailed description of the 
Maryland Miocene stratigraphy and its preserved organic remains, 
but also the relationship of these faunas to those of other areas 
of North America and of Europe. The State of Maryland is to be 
congratulated on its able and active survey staff, under the efficient 
leadership of Professor W. B. Clark. Among state surveys it 
stands second, ranking next to that of the rich state of New 
York."* c. s. P. 
The Origin 0/ Certain Place Names in the United States (Second 
Edition). By Henry Gannett. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bulletin No. 
258. Pages 334. Washington, 1905. 
This edition has 54 pages more than the first edition, which 
was published three years ago. Much local history, from the 
aborigines and the pioneer white settlers, is contained in our geo- 
graphic names; and the list might be greatly increased, so that 
these names and their derivations and meaning for any one of the 
large and old states would fill a large volume. w. r. 
* Am. Jour. Science. 4th Ser.. vol. xix. March, 1905, p. 259. 
