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and important description. The work closes with a chapter devoted 
to the shore lines of the northern seas. 
This work thus covers the whole field of modern geology, and 
brings within small compass the grand conclusions of the science 
on the main features of the history of the stratified rocks. The col- 
laborators with M. Margerie, in this translation and in the new ma- 
Six and M. Zimmerman. The new French edition of this German 
treatise renders a great service to geologists in bringing it within 
terial, are Aug. Bernard, Ch. Deperet, W. Kilian, G. Poirault, Ach. 
reach of a wider circle of students. The only criticism that may be 
made is one that is a common fault of French works, viz : it has no 
index, and only the most general subdivisions and running heads. It 
is therefore much like a hidden mine which everyone must explore 
independently, without guides. English, and especially American, 
scientific books are far ahead of those of continental Europe in this 
particular. N. H. w. 
A Record of the Ge.ology of Texas for the Decade ending December 
31, 1896. By F. W. SiMONDS. (Transactions of the Texas Acad- 
emy of Science, vol. 3, pp. 1-280. Austin, August, 1900.) 
This record begins where professor Hill's Bulletin No. 15 of the 
United States Geological Survey leaves off, and covers the decade 
which, as remarked in the author's prefatory note, has been more 
fruitful of results than any other and has placed the geology of Texas 
upon a solid foundation, notwithstanding the many details that re- 
main to be worked out and errors that must be corrected. 
It comprises 466 titles, numbered for convenient cross and index- 
reference, arranged alphabetically by authors, those of each author be- 
ing arranged according to time of publication. 
The entry of copious quotations, judiciously selected to show pro- 
gressive or important features of most of the papers cited, and the 
preparation of brief abstracts of certain papers or parts of papers, 
have more than doubled the value of the record as a bibliographic 
production. In presenting these Dr. Simonds has been wisely im- 
partial, avoiding entanglement in controversial geology and letting the 
principal results and contentions of authors speak for themselves. 
Lists of fossils, minerals and rocks newly described or illustrated, 
or of which new knowledge is added in the papers cited, faunal lists 
of formations, condensed geologic sections, chemical analyses and 
economic statistics have been freely included. 
Thus, in a form compact and convenient for reference, the Record 
embodies the best part of the known geology of Texas, and consti- 
tutes an admirable handbook of the latter and one that will be indis- 
pensable to all future students of the geology of the state or of 
North America at large. 
Typographical errors do not recur with sufficient frequency to be 
burdensome. 
.\n excellent index is provided, embracing topics, localities and 
antliors. F. w. c. 
