Hecriit J^)il>l iciitiniif( II 11(1 ( 'orrtxj>'>iiil<'iic<'. 329 
■stoues of the country were gathered tlirough the agency of the census 
of l.S8(». 
Annniil licport, Ifiohnjirnl Siirr,// nf ArJ.'i/i.vx, lfS88, Vol. iv, J. C. 
Branxek, state geologist, Little Kock, 1891, contains: The geology of 
Washington county, by F. W. Simonds, and A list of the plants of 
Arkansas, by J. C. Branneu and F. V. Coville. The rei)ort on Wash- 
ington county is very full. The county embraces a complete section 
across the Lower Carboniferous rocks (Chester, 8t. Louis, Warsaw, Keo- 
kuk and Burlington) to whicli tlie name " Mississippian"' is apjjlied, after 
the recommendation of the late Dr. A. AVinchell. In like manner the 
Coal Measures of the state, represented only 1)\- the basal portion — the 
Millstone grit — is named Pennsylvanian on the authorit}- of Prof. H. S. 
Williams. 
Mi'(h(in'.s .Uouf/i/i/, published at Germautown, Philadelphia, by Thomas 
Meehan «fc Sons, is devoted to general gardening and wild Mowers. Imt it 
is much more than a gardeners paper, being strictly scientific, and con- 
veying much general botanical information. 
LIST OF PxECENT TUBLICATIONS. 
Ftireif/n Puhlleation». 
Surface straining of the earth in relation to tiie deep plienomena of 
volcanic action. T. ]\[ellard Keade. (Geol. Mag. Aug. 1890.j 
Perched rocks near Austwick. T. Mellard Reade (Geol. Mag. July, 
1891.) 
On the Killary bay and Slieve Partry Silurian basin, also notes on the 
metamorphic rocks of northwest Galwaj'. G. Henry Kinahan, (Pro. 
l?oy. Irish Acad. 3rd. Ser., Vol. I, No. o.) 
On the Drifts of Fiamborougli Head. (i. AV. Lamplugh, ((^uart Jour. 
Geol. Soc. Aug. 1891 j. 
YI. Sciriitifr Liih'iiiitori'K mnl Miixi mux. 
Bulletin of Denison University. Vol. \'I, parti, contains: Some obser- 
vations on the crusliing effects of the glacial ice-sheet, W. (t. Tight. 
COEEESPOXDEIsX^E. 
Xi'ic Ztolmul (•lin- /<,:■<. — The glaciers of ]Mount Cook (New Zealand) 
are not a whit behind those of the Alps in some respects. The longest 
is longer than the longest in the Alps. Then for one ton of superficial 
moraine nuitter the Alpine glaciers carry, tlie Mount Cook glaciers must 
carry five liundred. The ^lueller glacier is a mile in width, and for its 
lowest three or four miles is completely burii-d under a load of stones of 
all sizes, from that of a railway carriage downward. I got about 8.00(» 
feet up Mount Cook, and 1 think would liavc attained the summit if I 
