272 T/te American Geologist. April, i89i 
agreed with that of the present day in its main features, but must 
have been comparable in elevation and extent to the present 
Himalayas. " 
Among the reviews we find a severe criticism of Mr. Mil- 
ler's recent articles in the American Geologist on N. American 
crinoids. After making a considerable extract introduced Iry some 
sarcastic remarks, the author concludes thus : 
"For the rest of this amusing and exciting article we will refer 
our readers to the article where they will find a lucidity of expo- 
sition, an accuracy of argument and a courtesy in debate that re- 
mind one of the Society upon the Stanislaus." " The journals in 
which we publish nury be 'conduits of ignorance and conceit,' we 
are ' illiterate, ' ' reckless of symmetry, ' ' shallow pretenders, ' 
' venting stupid hypotheses, ' in our ' unenlightened affectation. ' 
We make our ' usually poor English more incomprehensible ' by 
'snatches from German authors' and yet 'overgrown with ignorance, 
assumption and conceit ' as we are, we humbh T confess that on this 
side of the Atlantic we have never produced anything that would, 
for sweet reasonableness and smoothness of persuasion, stand a 
moment's comparison with the gentlemanl}- polemics of Mr. S. A. 
Miller, of Cincinnati. 0." 
Origin of the word bronze. From an examination of texts 
due to the Greek alchemists, extracted from a document of the 
16th century, Mr. Berthelot came to the conclusion, especially af- 
ter comparing them with certain passages in Pliny the elder, that 
the name of bronze was derived from the city of Brundusium, the 
seat of certain manufactures in which this alloy was emplo}*ed. 
Now, Mr. Berthelot has found a text that is more ancient by three 
centuries (for it dates back to the time of Charlemagne), and the 
indications of which are still more decisive. It is a question of a 
manuscript found in the library of the chapter of the Canons of 
Luynes, and reproduced by Maratori in his Antiquitates Italia. In 
the Latin text it is expressly specified as " Composition of Brin- 
disi : " Copper two part, lead one part, tin one part — a traditional 
formula that has come down to our time. It would, then, seem 
indeed as if the word bronze was derived from the city of Brindisi, 
where bronze was manufactured on a large scale. — La Genie Civil. 
Aluminum at 81.25 per found is in the market. A price list 
sent out to the trade by the Cowles Electric Smelting and Alu- 
minum Co., of Loekport. N. Y. , gives the following figures : In 
lots of more than 2,0(>0 lbs., si. 2.") per lb., less 20 per cent, dis- 
count, and in 1,500 lb., 1,000 lb. and 500 lb. lots, $1.25 per lb., 
with 15. 10. and 5 per cent, discount. In 50 to 500 lbs. the 
price is si. 25 net; 10 to 50 lbs., 81.50; and less than 10 lbs., 
81.75 per pound. 
