REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
/. State and government reports. 
Report on a part of northern Alberta, and portions of adjacent districts 
of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. Bj J. B. Tyrrell. Part E. of the an- 
nual report of the Geol. and Nat. Hist. Sur., of Canada, for 1886; pp. 176; 
two maps; Montreal. 
Penn. Geol. Surv.; annual report, 1886. Part iii. Anthracite coal 
region. By Frank A. Hill. Illustrated with a frontispiece map of coal 
fields; a heliotype page plate; and three folded maps, with an atlas of 
seven sheets. 
2. Proceedings of scientific societies. 
Proc. Canad. Inst. April, 1888; and annual report of the same, 1886-87. 
Toronto. The latter contains the report of David Boyle, Curator, on ar- 
chaeological work in 18S7. 
Bulletin of the N. Y. state museum of Natural History, No. 3. March, 
1888. Building stone in the state of New York. By John C. Smock. 
J. Papers in scientific journals. 
In Am. Jour. Sci., May. Three formations of the middle Atlantic 
slope. IV. J. McGce. (with plates vi and vii). On some peculiarly 
spotted rocks from Pigeon Point, Minnesota. W. S. Bayley. The 
Taconic system of Emmons, and the use of the name Taconic in geologic 
nomenclature. Chas. D. Walcott. The terminal moraines in North 
Germany. Prof. R. D. Salisbury. 
4. Excerpts and indixndual publications. 
Illustrations of the fauna of the St. John group. No.iv. Parti. De- 
scription of a new species of Paradoxides (P. regina). Part 11. The 
smaller trilobites with eyes (Ptycoparidse and EUipsocephalidie). By G, 
F. Matthew, M. A. Trans. Roy. Soc, Cafiada. Presented May 25, 1887. 
A preliminary notice of a new genus of Silurian fishes. By G. F. 
Matthew. Read Oct. 5, 1886. Bulletin of the Nat. Hist. Soc. 
American geological classification and nomenclatvire. By Jules Mar- 
cou, pp. 75. Cambridge, Mass. 
5. Foreign publications. 
Lakis kratere og ivastromme, at Ammund Holland; Universitetspro- 
gram for 2nd. semester, 1885. Kristiana. 
Reports of geological explorations during 1885 with maps and sections. 
Sir. James Hector, director. Wellington, New Zealand. 
Same for 1886-87. 
