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On a large garnet from New York island. Jiy George F. Ktim. Read 
May 30, 1 886, before the Kc-v Tork Acad, of Sciences. 
Meteorites from Glorieta mountain, Santa Fe Co., New Mexico. 
George F. Kmiz. Ann. JV. 1'. Acad. Set., vol. iii, 1885. 
On the new artificial rubies. Bj-^ George F. Kunz. Trans. N. T. Acad. 
Sci., Oct. 4, 18S6. 
On two new meteorites from Carroll county, Ky., and Catorze, Mexico. 
George F. Kunz. Am. four. Set'., March, 1887. 
The following by Mr. Kunz are from the Am. Jonr. Sci., Dec, 1887: 
Waldron Ridge, Tennessee, meteorite; Taney county. Mo., meteorite; 
Chattooga county, Georgia, meteorite; East Tennessee (.'), meteorite; 
Powder Mill creek, meteorite; Rhodocrosite from Colorado; Hollow 
quartz from Arizona; A North Carolina diamond; Hydrophane from 
Colorado, and silver nugget from Mexico. 
On the petrographical characters of a dike of diabase in the Boston 
basin. By IVilliam H. Hobbs. 12 pp. One plate. Bulletin of the M21S. 
of Camp. Zool ; from the Geol. Ser., vol. ii. 
The Taconic of Georgia and the report on the geology of Vermont, 
By yules Afarcou\ read May 4, 18S7. From the memoirs of the Boston 
Society of Natural History. 
On the use of the name Taconic. fules Marcou. March, 1887. Proc. 
Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xxiii. 
Vol. viii. No 65, of the circulars of Johns Hopkins university contains 
valuable contributions to the Archaean and Tertiary geology of Mary- 
land, and surrounding regions, hy Prof. George H. Williams, William B. 
Clark, and Wm. H. Hobbs ; Erasmus Haworth has a preliminary notice of 
the Archaean geologj- of Missouri, and A. C. Gill a like notice of the erup- 
tives of the island of Fernando Noronha. 
The Cosmogony of Genesis, by Prof. G. F. WrigJit, Bibliotheca Sacra, 
April, 1888. 
5. Foreign Publications. 
Contributions to the paleontology of Brazil, comprising descriptions of 
Cretaceous invertebrate fossils, mainly from the provinces of Sergipe, 
Pernambuco, Para and Bahia. By Charles A. White, with a Portuguese 
translation by Orville A. Derby. Extracted from volume vii of the Ar- 
chivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de faneiro. Quarto, pp. 273, 28 plates. 
Pio fanriro. 
On Nepheline rocks in Brazil with special reference to the association 
of phonc>lite and foyaite. Orville A. Derby, ^uart. four. Geol. Soc, 
Aug., iSSy. London. 
Ueber die Altersfolge der vulkanischen Gesteine und der Ablagerungen 
des Braunkohlengebirges in Siebengebirge. Mit zwei Tafeln, Von Dr, 
phil. Gustav Mongold. Aus dcm mineralogischen Institutder Universitat 
1888. Kid. 
Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologish-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 
Band xxxvii und xxxviii. 1887. 
