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ification for Quebec." Jules Marcou. Proc. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 
XXIV, 1889. 
The Laramie group : Its geological relations, its economic import- 
ance, its fauna and flora. The rock-salt deposits of the Salina group 
of western New York, (abstract) J. S. Newberry. From Trans. N. Y, 
Acad, of Sciences, vol. ix, Nos. 1 and 2. 
Museum history and museums of History. G. Brown Goode, Am. 
Hist. Asso. 
Remarks upon extinct mammals of the United States, W. R. Shu- 
feldt. Am. Field, vol. xxxii. 
Some new Kansas industries, Robert Hay. Proc. Kas. State Bd. of 
Agriculture. 
Biographical notice of Chas. A. Ashburner. J. P. Lesley, Trans. 
Am. Inst. Min. Eng. Feb. 1890. 
Relations of the pinite of the Boston basin to the felsite and con- 
glomerate, W. 0. Crosby. Tech. Quart. Feb. 1890. 
5. Foreign Publications. 
Untersuchungen ueber Gesteine und Mineralien aus West-Indien, 
von J. A. Kloos. (Sammlungen d. geol. Reichs Museums in Leiden, 
1889, S. 169). 
Second report on the geology of a portion of the province of Quebec. 
R. W. Ells. Part K. Rep. of the Can. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Sur. for 
1887, contains an appendix, in tabulated form, showing the system- 
atic distribution of the fossils, and their localities, referred to in the 
report exclusive of those sj^ecies obtained in the limestone conglomer- 
ate bands, by Henry M. Ami. 
Proceedings and transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Nat" 
ural Science, vol. VII, iPart iii, contains: A geological recreation in 
Massachusetts centre, D. Honeyman; Ice in the Carboniferous period, 
Henry S. Poole; Glacial boulders of our fisheries, and invertebrates 
attached and detached, D. Honeyman ; The geology of Cape Breton, 
the minerals of the Carboniferous, E. Gilpin. 
Schriften d. nat. Ver. f. Schleswig-Holstein, B. viii, Erstes Heft, 
Kiel, contains : Ueber eine lokale Anhiiufung miociinen Gosteins bei 
Itzshoe. E. Stolley; Ueber einige seltene Fossilien aus dem Diluvium 
und der Kreide. Sch. Holsteins, H. J. Haas. 
A manual of palaeontology. By H. Alleyne Nicholson and Richard 
Lydekker. Two volumes, 8vo. 1624 pp. Third edition, rewritten and 
enlarged. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1889. 
The evolution of climate. James Geikie, Scottish geographical mag- 
zine, Feb. 1890. 
Foldtani Kozlony. Nov. -Dec. 1889, contains : Rhyolithspuren in 
Schweden. Dr. J. Szadeczky ; Ueber einige seltenere Gesteinsein- 
schliisse in uugarischen Trachyten Franz Schafarzik ; Der Stephans- 
gang und seine Uebenkliifte, Paul Hegediis; Kleinere phytopalaonto- 
logische Mittheilungen, Dr. M. Staub. 
Ueber die rothen und bunten Mergelder oberen Dyas bei Manches- 
