58 The American Geologist. juiy, i89i 
LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
I. State and Qovcrnment Reports. 
Tenth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist of California for the 
year ending December, 1890. 
Fourth Annual Report of the Canadian Institute, session of 1890-91. 
On vertebrata from the Tertiary and Cretaceous rocks of the North- 
west Territory, by E. D. Cope. Geol. Surv. Can. 
Reports of the Director and Treasurer of the Michigan Mining School, 
1886-91. 
Letter from the Sec. of Agric. transmitting a report on the prelimi- 
nary investigations to determine the proper location of artesian wells 
within the area of the 97th Mer. and east of the foot-hills of the Rocky 
Mts., by J. M.Rusk. 
Progress Report on Irrigation in the United States, Part I, by Richard 
J. Hinton, Washington. 
Progress Report of Artesian and Underflow Investigation between the 
97° W. Long, and the foot-hills of the Rocky Mts., Part II, by Edwin 
S. Nettleton, Washington. 
Biennial Report of the State Geologist. Geol. Sur. Mo., Arthur Wins- 
low. 
Tertiary Insects of North America, by Samuel H. Scudder. Roy. 8vo. 
pp. 734, U. S. Geol. Surv., Washington. 
II. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Prceed. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. New series Nol. XVII. From 
May 1889 to May 1890. 
Report and Proceed. Belfast Nat. His. and Phil. Soc, for the session 
1889-90, contains notes on the musical sand of Eigg, by J. Brown, Esq ; 
Some notes on the Upper Boulder Clay, near Belfast, by Robt. Young, 
Esq., C. E. 
Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 1890, contains: Mineralogical, Geo- 
logical and Agricultural Surveys of South Carolina, J. A. Holmes. 
Proceed. Kan, Acad. Sci. Vol. XII, 1889-90, contains: Artesian 
Wells in Kansas and the cause of their flow, Robt. Hay ; Occurrence of 
mammoth remains in Franklin county, Kansas, O. C. Charlton; Occur- 
rence of gold in Montana, J. R. Mede ; Kansas meteorites, F. H. Snow. 
Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1881, Jan., -Mar., contains ; Rale of 
coral growth, Angelo Heilprin ; Basanite from Crawford Co., Ind., E. 
Goldsmith : Palieosyops and allied genera, Chas. Earle ; The sand- 
stones of Chester Valley, Penn., Theo. D. Rande; On the age of the 
Peace Creek beds, Florida, Wm. H. Dall ; A review of the Cretaceous 
mammalia, Henry F. Osborn ; Geological reseaches in Yucatan, Angela 
Heilprin. 
Transactions of the Canadian Institute, Mar. 1891, contents: Pelo- 
techthen balanoides, Arthur Harvey; Formation of Toronto Island, L. 
J. Clark. 
Bui. Santa Barbara Soc. Nat. His., Vol.1, No. 2, Oct. 1890. 
