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Report of the Mineral Products of the U.S.,D.T.Day,U.S. Geological 
Survey, Department of ihe Interior. Report for 1893, Coal, E.W.Parker. 
Annual report of Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Harvard College for 1891-92. 
Geological Survey of Texas. Report on Brown Coal and Lignite of 
Texas, E. T. Dumble, state geologist, 1892. 
Geological Survey of Missouri, biennial report of state geologist A. 
Winslow. Preliminary report on Coal Deposits of Missouri, 1891-92: 
Vol. II, report on Iron Ores, by F. L. Nason; Vol. Ill, report on Mineral 
Waters, by P. Schweitzer. 
Michigan Mining School, catalogue for 1891-92. 
Geological Survey of Indiana, 17th annual report of the state geol- 
ogist for 1891, contains: Report on Building Stones found in Indiana, 
by Maurice Thompson: Geology of Steuben and Whitley counties, C. R. 
Dryer; partial catalogue of the Flora of Steuben county, E. Bradner; 
Geology and Natural History of Carroll county, M. Thompson; Geology 
of Wabash county, M. N. Elrod and A. C. Benedict; partial ^st of Flora 
of Wabash and Cass counties, A. C. Benedict and M. N. Elrod; report 
of the inspector of mines, T. McQuade; report of state supervisor of 
Oil Inspection, N. J. Hyde; Petroleum in Indiana, A. C. Benedict; 
report of supervisor of Xatural Gas, E. T. J. Jordan; catalogue of 
Butterflies known to occur in Indiana, W. S. Blatchley; Batrachians 
and Reptiles of the state of Indiana, O. P. Hay; Paleontology, S. A. 
Miller. 
II. 
Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Trans. Wagner Free Institute, Vol. Ill, Pt. II, contains: Contribu- 
tions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida with special reference to the 
Miocene Silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosa- 
hatchie River, W. H. Dall. 
New Orleans Academy of Science, Proc, contains: Topography of 
New Orleans, B. M. Harrod: Archiean Rocks in Texas, B. M. Harrod. 
Jour, of the Cin. Soc. Nat. History contains: Observations concerning 
Fort Ancient, S. S. Scoville; Microscopical Study of Ohio Limestones, 
G. P. (Jrimsley; Manual of the Paleontology of the Cincinnati Group, 
J. F. James; Niagara's Water Power, B. M. Ricketts. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Phila. contains: A Revision of North Amer- 
ican Creodonta, W. B. Scott; Geology of the Isles of Shoals, T. D. 
Rand; A Hytcna and other Carnivora from Texas, and The Permanent 
and Temporary Dentition of Certain Three-Toed Horses, by E. D. Cope; 
Notes on the Geology of Mt. Desert Island, H. C. Chapman: A Mete- 
oric Stone seen to fall at Bath, S. D., A. E. Foote; Extra-Morainic 
Drift in the Susquehanna, Lehigh and Delaware Valleys, by G, F. 
Wright. 
III. 
Papers in Scientific Journals. 
Geol. Magazine, December, contains: The Wenlock and Ludlow 
Strata of the Lake District, J. E. Marr: On the Occurrence of the Chon- 
