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ties of the chrysolitc-fayalite group and of monticellite, S. L. Penfiekl 
and F- H. Forbes. 
Jour, of Geology, Jan. -Feb. Review of the geological literature of 
the South African Republic, S. F. Emmons: Igneous intrusions in the 
neighborhood of the Black hills of Dakota, I. C. Russell; The geology 
of New Hampshire, C. H. Hitchcock; North American graptolites, R. 
R. Gurley. 
Kansas Univ. Quarterly, Jan. The sands of the Kansas River valley, 
M. Z. Kirk; "Horsebacks" in the Kansas Coal Measures, W. R. Crane; 
A preliminary report on the glaciated area of Kansas, E. G. Swem; A 
geological section at Providence, Mo., Alban Stewart. 
IV. Excerpts and Individual Publications. 
Concretions of chalcedony and opal in obsidian and rhyolite in Colo- 
rado, H. B. Patton. 6 pp., 2 pis.; read before the Colo. Sci. Soc, Nov. 
4, 1895. 
Peculiar geological formations at the head waters of the Rio Grande, 
Colo., H. B. Patton. 2 pp., 2 pis.; read before the Colo. Sci. Soc, Nov. 
4, 1895. 
The production of aluminum in 1894, R. L. Packard. 16th Ann. Rept. 
U. S. Geol. Sur., pt. 3, pp. 539-546, 1895. 
Bauxite, C. W. Hayes. Ibid., pp. 547-597, pis. 20 23, 1895. 
The Tennessee phosphates, C. W. Hayes. Ibid., pt. 4, pp. 610-630, 
pi. 5, 1895. 
Terminology proposed for description of the shell in Pelecypoda (Ab 
stract), Alpheus Hyatt. Proc. A. A. A. S., vol. 44, pp. 145-148, 1895. 
Notes and recollections concerning the mineral resources of northern 
Georgia and western North Carolina, W. P. Blake. Trans. Am. Inst. 
Min. Eng.,. Atlanta meeting, 15 pp., 1895. 
Lake Passaic, an extinct glacial lake, H. B. Kiimmel. Thesis for de- 
gree of Ph. D., Univ. of Chicago; 89 pp., 1 map, 1895. 
A summary of progress in petrography in 1895, W. S. Bay ley. From 
monthly notes in Amer. Naturalist: Waterville, Me., 1896. 
Notes on some of the Cretaceous fossils collected during captain Pal- 
liser's explorations in British North America in 1857-'60, J. F. Whit- 
eaves. Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 2d ser., vol. 1, sec. 4, pp. 101-117, pi. 
1, 1895. 
On some fossils from the Nanaimo group of the Vancouver Cretaceous, 
J. F. Whiteaves. Ibid., pp. 119-133, pis. 2-3, 1895. 
Notes on the areal geology of Glacier bay, Alaska, H. P. Cushing. 
Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 15, pp. 24-34, pi. 1, 1895. 
PERSONAL AN D SCIE NTIFIC NEWS. 
Joseph Prestwich, professor of geology in the University 
of Oxford, has been knighted by Queen Victoria. 
Prof. Harry Lam>i:s has been appointed professor of min- 
eralogy and geology in the Washington State University ;it 
Se ittle. 
