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are arranged in a single alphabetic list, instead of the former separate 
grouping for each state and territory. 
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. By Epwarp Wuyn- 
PER. pp. Xxiv, 456 ; with four maps, 20 full page illustrations, and 118 
figures in the text. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892.) In 
this very interesting narrative of the author’s mountain climbing in 
Equador, the geographer, geologist, archeologist, meteorologist, botan- 
ist, and zoologist (especially the entomologist),encounter many valuable 
scientific notes. Mr. Whymper found that a stay during several days 
at high altitudes accustomed him to endure the rarified atmosphere 
with less discomfort. Mercurial barometers were used for the determi- 
nation of the great hights of Chimborazo (20,498 feet), Cotopaxi (19,613 
feet ), Antisana ( 19,335 feet ), Cayambe (19,186 feet ), and the other some- 
what less lofty volcanic cones of this portion of the Andes. The best 
aneroid barometers were found to be very unreliable at the altitude of 
Quito (9,350 feet), and during all the high ascents, so that they required 
careful comparison with the mercurial column for learning the irregular 
variations in their index-errors. 
The genus Lituites, Breyn.—Dr. Gerhard Holm publishes in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Geological Society of Stockholm (Vol. 15, pp. 736 et al.) 
a valuable contribution to this genus, especially so far as relates to the 
lobes. He was fortunate enough to obtain some beautifully preserved 
specimens of ZL. litnus Mont., L. tenucaulis Rem, and some other forms, 
among which is one new one (L. dzscors). He finds that there are in com- 
plete specimens no less than five lobes, with the exception of LZ. discors 
Holm, in which there are three lobes, and ZL. precurrens, in which there 
are only two. There is, however, some doubt about this last species, and 
it may probably have to be referred to another genus. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
I, State and Government Reports. 
Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural History. Sixteenth 
Annual Report. Maurice Thompson, State Geologist. 1888. pp. 472, 
10 plates and Natural Gas Map. Indianapolis, 1889. 
Sulletin of the U. 8. National Museum, No. 42. A Preliminary De- 
scriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology 
and Metallurgy in the Museum, by F. P. Dewey. pp. 256 with plates. 
Washington, 1891. 
Report on the Coal Measures of the Plateau Region of Alabama, by 
H. McCalley; with a Report on the Coal Measures of Blount county, by 
A. M. Gibson, Geological Survey of Alabama. pp. 238, with map and 
sections. Montgomery, 1891. 
Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. Nineteenth 
