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RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
/. Government and stale Reports. 
Bull. \. Y. State Museum.vol. 3, no. 14, Sept., L895. The geology 
of Moriah and West pint townships, Essex county, N. Y.,J. F. Kemp. 
33 pp., pis. 1 1, 2 maps. 
Same. vol. 3, no. L5, Sept.. 1895. Mineral resources of New York 
-late. Iv .1. II. Merrill. 240 pp., 2 maps. 
U. S. Geol. Sur., Geologic Atlas of the U.S. Folio 17, Marysville 
(California) folio, Waldemar Lindgren and H. W. Turner. 
Geol. Sur. of Canada, pt. B, Ann. Rept., vol. 7. Report on the area 
of the Kam loops map sheet. British Columbia, G. M. Dawson. Pp. 1B- 
427B, pis. 1 7, 2 maps, 1896. 
Same, pt. M. Report on the surface geology of eastern New Bruns- 
wick, northwestern Nova Scotia and a portion of Prince Edward island, 
Robert Chalmers. Pp. 1M-149M, pis. 1-4, 5 maps, 1895. 
II. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 7, pp. 315 326, Feb. •_>.".. 1890. Relations 
of geologic science to education, N. S. Shaler. 
Same. pp. 327-348, pi. 15, Mch. 12, 1896. Preglacial and postglacial 
valleys of the Cuyahoga and Rocky rivers, Warren Upham. 
Same, pp. 349 302, pi. 1(5. Mch. 14, 1896. Disintegration and decom- 
position of diabase at Medford, Mass., G. P. Merrill. 
Same, pp. 363-376, pi. 17, Mch. 14, 1896. Geographic relations of the 
granites and porphyries in the eastern part of the Ozarks, C. R. Keyes. 
Same, pp. 377-398, Mch. 23, 1896. Plains of marine and subaerial de- 
nudation, W. M. Davis. 
Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vols. 1-3 (1872). reprinted 1896, 13.1 pp. 
Coals of Kansas, W. H. Saunders: Limestones and coals (analyses), W. 
H. Saunders; Red sandstone of central Kansas, B. F. Mudge: Geology 
of Arkansas, B. F. Mudge: Recent discoveries of fossil footprints in 
Kansas, B. F. Mudge ; Analysis of clays, W. H. Saunders : A geological 
survey of Kansas, B. F. Mudge; Brachiospongia, H. C. Hovey : Plio- 
cene Tertiary of western Kansas, B. F. Mudge : Rare forms of fish in 
Kansas, B. F. Mudge. 
Geol. Soc. of Washington, 1895. The origin of hypotheses: illustrated 
by the discussion of a topographic problem, G. K. Gilbert. 
III. Papers in Scientific Journals. 
Jour, of Geology, Feb. -Mch. Kame areas in western New York south 
of [rondequoit and Sodus bays, H. L. Fairchild : A pre-Tertiary nephe- 
line bearing rock, F. Bascom : Petalocrinus mirabilis (n. sp.) and a new 
American fauna, Stuart Weller and R. A. Davidson ; Remarks on Peta 
lodus alleghaniensis, C. R.Eastman: On the nature of igneous intru 
sions, 1. C. Russell: Deformation of rocks, C. R. Van Hise. 
Amer. .lour. Sci., April. The morphology of Triarthrus, C. E. 
Beecher ; Examination of the arguments given by Neumayr for the 
existence of climatic zones in Jurassic times, A. E. Ortmann ; Occur- 
rence of theralite in Costa Rica, Central America, J. E. Wolff: Meta- 
