CONTENTS. 
JULY NUMBER. 
Sir John William Dawson. A Brief Biographical Sketch. 
[Portrait.] Henry M. Ami 1 
Possible New Coal-Plants in Coal. Part II. [Plates II, 
III, IV, v.] W. S. Gresley 49 
Review of Recent Geological Literature. — Fossil Flora of the Lower 
Coal Measurep of Missouri, David White, 55. — Report on Fossil 
Plants from the Mc Alester Coal Field, Indian Territory,collected by 
Messrs. Taff and Richardson in 1897, David White, 58. — Relative 
Ages of the Kanawha and Alleghany Series as Indicated by the 
Fossil Plants, David White, 59. — The Devonian "Lamprey," 
Paleospondylus Gunni, Traquair, Bashford Dean, 60. — Develop- 
ment of Agaricocrinus, Maky Klem, 60. — Geological Survey of Al- 
abama; report on the Warrior Coal Basin, Henry McCalley, 61. 
Monthly Authors^ Catalogue of American Geological Literature, 61. 
Personal and Scientific Neics, 68. — The New Work on the Glacial 
Geology of New 'York, 61.— The Recently Established American 
Museum Journal, 6i. — Work of the United States Geological Sur- 
vey in Alaska, 64. 
AUGUST NUMBER. 
The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope. [Plates VI- 
XV.] Persifor Frazer 67 
Monthly Authors^ Catalogue of American Geological Literature. 129, 
SEPTEMBER NUMBER. 
On the Presence of Pores in the Ventral Sac in Fistulate 
Crinoids. Frank Springer. [Plate XVL] 13H 
Mineralogical and Petrographic Study of the Gabbroid 
Rocks of Minnesota and more Particularly of the 
Plagioclasytes. [Plates VIII-XIX.] Alexander 
N. WiNCHELL 150 
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