394 'ihe American Geologist. J"°^' ^^^^ 
The Second Biennial Report of the Director of the Agricultural Col- 
lege Survey of North Dakota. Daniel E. Williard. Director. 
Pages xii, 187; with 36 plates (maps, sections, and views from 
photographs). Bismarck, N. D., 1904. 
In connection with a large amount of topographic and geologic 
work in this state by the V. S. Geological Survey, an important 
examination of its soils and agricultural capabilities is being car- 
ried forward by the State Agricultural College, as here reported. 
Professor Willard acknowledges great indebtedness to his prede- 
cessor, the late Prof. Charles M. Hall, of whom a brief biographic 
sketch is reprinted from the Americ\n Geologist of April, 1902. 
Two posthumous papers by Prof. Hall treat of the history of Lake 
Agassiz and the drainage of the southeast part of the state; and 
several papers, mostly on soil surveys and water supply bj' artesian 
and common wells, are presented by Prof. Willard and his assist- 
ants. 
North Dakota has great diversity of soils, from the very fertile 
Red river valley plain, the bed of the glacial Lake Agassiz, to the 
boulder-strewn knolls and hills of the Coteau du Missouri, and the 
Bad Lands of the Little Missouri river, the last being unsurpassed 
in irregularity and picturesqueness of contour. w. u 
Casselton-Fargo Folio, North Dakota and Minnesota, No. 117, Geo- 
logic Atlas of the United States. By Charles M. Hall and 
Daniel E. Williard. Pages 6, with G map sheets. Washington, 
1905. 
About a quarter part of the tract here mapped and described 
is in Minnesota, wholly in the area of Lake Agassiz; and the part 
in North Dakota extends northwest a few miles beyond this lacus- 
trine area. The lake beds and glacial drift are underlain by Cre- 
taceous strata, which yield slightly saline and alkaline artesian 
water, and these rest on granite, as shown by sections of very 
deep wells; but the bed rocks older than the drift have no outcrop 
in this district. w. u. 
MONTHLY AUTHOR^S CATALOGUE 
[OF AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL LITERATURE 
ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. 
ADAMS GEO. I. (and E. O. ULRICH). 
Description of the Favetteville quadrangle, U. S. G. S., Geol. 
Atlas, Folio 119, 1905. 
ADAMS, GEO. I. 
Summary of the water supply of the Ozark region in northern 
Arkansas. (Wat. Sup.Irr. Pap., No. 110, pp. 179-182, 1905.) 
