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officers offered other reasons for these evidences, and con- 
stantly harassed the commander with suggestions that he was 
probably off the line of pursuit. They insisted on the dis- 
covery of the enemy's initials on the old canteens and manu- 
facturers' stamps on the rejected muskets. The commandet gave 
no heed to them, but continued the pursuit, and on coming 
up with the retreating army, succeeded in surrounding and cap- 
turing it en masse. The subordinate generals then admitted 
that the evidences that the commander had depended on ap- 
peared to them less and less irrational. 
Hutton started this investigation of the oldest rocks and 
followed in the line of the plainest field evidence. Most geol- 
ogists rationally agree that he took the right direction, and 
have accepted his guidance, but it is only reluctantly that the 
extreme plutonists have yielded step after step, after insisting 
on the minutest chemical and microscopical comparisons. It is 
a satisfaction to know, however, that after such minute ex- 
aminations the most scrupulous caution is satisfied, and that 
Hutton and his followers in England, and those who belong 
to the so-called French school on the continent and in Amer- 
ica, are apparently confirmed in their main conclusions. 
N. II. w. 
REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL 
LITERATURE. 
Geologic Atlas of the United States. 
The following folios have been received from the United States 
Geological Survey, C. D. Walcott, director, viz : Nos. 87-93. The 
individual authors contributing to these folios, and the names of the 
folios, will be found listed in the alphabetical Author's catalogue of 
recent literature. 
Index to publications of the New York State Natural History Survey 
and New York State Museum, also including other New York 
publications on related subjects. 1837-1902. Mary Ellis. New York 
State Museum, Bulletin 66, Miscellaneous 2, pp. 653. Albany, June, 
1903. 
This very welcome and useful volume makes more available the great 
mass of literature on natural history subjects which has been published 
at Albany. It might be supposed from the title that all New York 
publications are here listed and indexed, but. aside from the survey 
