312 Recent Publications. 
The affinity of science for Christianity. Prof. G. Frederick Wright. 
Reprint from the Bibliotheca sacra. Oct. 1889. 
Notes on the P^ntozoa of marine fishes of New England, with descrip- 
tions of several new species. Edwin Linton. An. Rep. Com. Fish and 
Fisheries for 188G. 
Report of Geological observations made in northeastern Minnesota. 
By Uly. S. Grant. Part iv of xviith Ann. Report of the Minnesota 
geological survey. 
The geology of Buffalo as related to natural gas explorations along 
the Niagara river. By C. A. Ash burner. Amer. Inst. Mining Engi- 
neers. Buffalo meeting, Oct. 1888. 
The development of the theories of crystal structure. W. S. Bayley. 
(^m. A^'a/. Apr. 1889). 
5. Foreign Publications. 
The Trap Formation of Ulster. J. Starkie Gardner. Proc. Belfast 
Nat. Field Club. 1888. Series ii. vol. iii. Part 1. 
References to the Diatomaceous deposits at Lough Mourne, and 
in the Mourne mountains. By Messrs. W. A. Firth and Wm. Swan- 
ston. Proc. Belfast Nat. Field Club. Ser. iii. vol. iii. Parti. 
Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rhein- 
lande, Westfalens und des Reg.-Bezirks Osnabruck. Erste Hiilfte, Bonn. 
188!^, contains Ueber den Charakter der quartJirfauna von Thiede bei 
Braunschweig. Von Dr. A. Wolleman. Ueber electrolytisch abge- 
schiedne Kupperkrystalle, mit 2 Holzschnitten. Von Prof. 0. Mugge. 
Geologisches Profil von Hamm. /. Hendhausen. 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Ca.nada, vol. vi. contains: Pres- 
idential address; The LIuronian system of Canada. Robert Bell. 
L9 Gaz naturel dans la province de Quebec, par L'Ubbe Laflamme" 
On Nematophyton and allied forms from the Devonian (Erian) of 
Gaspe and Bay des Chaleurs. By D. P. Penhallow (with introductory 
notes by Sir William Dawson). On some remarkable organisms of the 
Silurian and Devonian rocks in southern New Brunswick. By G. 
F. Matthew. Notes on the Nova Scotia gold veins. By E. Gilpin, 
Jr. On Cretaceous plants from Port McNeill, Vancouver's Island. 
By Sir William Dawson and G. M. Dawson. Illustrations of the 
fossil fishes of the Devonian rocks of Canada. Part II. By J. F. Whit- 
eaves. 
Chemical and Physical studies in the metamorphism of rocks. By 
A. Irving. Octavo, 138 pp. London. Longmans, Green & Co. 
The advantage to the civil engineer of a study of geology. T. Mel- 
lard Reade. Trans. Liverpool Engineering Society, Nor. 14, 18SS. 
The New Red sandstone, and the physiography of the Triassic 
period. T. Mellard Reade. Naturalist, April ISS9. 
Slickensides and normal faults, their characters and cause. T. Mel- 
lard Reade. Liverpool Geol. Society. Session 1888-9. 
Notizblatt des Vereins fiir Erdkunde zu Darmstadt, Folge iv. 9 H. 
contains : Granit und Minette an der Hirschburg bei Lauterschusen 
siidlich Weinheim a. d. Bergstrasse, von C. Chelins. Taf. in und iv. 
