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numerous other localities, as at Muscatine and Council Bluffs, 
Iowa, and Clayton, Mo., near the city of St. Louis, stone ar- 
rowheads, spear points, and axes, have been found in or be- 
neath the loess, denoting nearly the same degree of skill in 
making stone implements at the time of deposition of the loess 
as when this region was first reached by Europeans. A like 
conclusion for the long antiquity of man in the central part of 
Kansas is also required by the discovery reported by Williston, 
near the Smoky Hill river in Logan county, of an arrowhead 
with and beneath bones of an extinct species of bison, overlain 
by twenty feet of the plains marl. Thus abundant geologic 
testimony that man was in Kansas and adjoining states during 
the chief epoch or stage of the loess deposition should surely 
outweigh any supposed objection derived from the similarity 
of the Lansing fossil man to the present Indians. W. u. 
REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL 
LITERATURE. 
Report on the Mineral Resources of Cuba in 1901. Prepared by Har- 
riet Connor Brown, of the Division of Mining and Mineral Re- 
sources, under the direction of Dr. David T. Day, of the U. S. Geol. 
Survey, for Brig. Gen. Leonard Wood, Military Governor of Cuba. 
Pages 121. with 12 plates (views from photographs). Baltimore, 
Md., 1902. 
This report, forming Part II of Volume V of the Civil Report of 
Gen. Wood, is based on a geological reconnaissance in May and June, 
1902, by Dr. C. Willard Hayes, assisted by T. Wayland Vaughan and 
Arthur C. Spencer. The value of the production of iron ore in 1901 
is stated as $1,240,555, and of all mineral products, $3,279,978. 
Asphalt, one of the most interesting products of Cuba, is reported in 
20 pages. Its output in 1901 was 4,554 tons, valued at $38,950. True 
coal is not found, or is very rare, though some of the asphalt deposits 
resemble bituminous coking coal. w. u. 
IVashington Geological Survey, Volume II: Annual Report for 1902. 
Henry Landes, State Geologist. Pages xiii, 281 ; with 23 plates, 
and 46 figures in the text. 1903. 
Reports on the building and ornamental stones of the State of Wash- 
ington, by Prof. Solon Shedd, and on its coal deposits, by Prof. Landes 
and C. A. Ruddy, are published in this volume, based on the field work 
of two vears. 
