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CONTENTS. 
JANUARY NUMBER. 
Sketch of the Life and Work of the late A. R. C. Selwyn, 
C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S, F.G.S., etc., Director of the Geological 
Survey of Canada from 1869 to 1894. [Portrait.] H. M. Ami, i 
On Rhombopora lepidodendroides. Meek. [Plate II.] G. E. 
Condra 22 
Valley L<jess'and the Fossil Man of Lansing, Kansas. War- 
ren Upliam 25 
Noetling on the Morphology of the Pelecypods. [Plate III.j 
R. Riicdemann 34 
Note on the West Indian eruptions of 1902. G. C. Curtis. ... 40 
Minerals observed on Buried Chinese Coins of the Seventh 
CENTURY. A. F. Rogers 43 
An erratic bowlder from the Coal Measures of Tennessee. 
6". JV. McCalUe 46 
Geological age of the West Indian Volcanic formations. /. 
]V. Spencer 48 
Editori.a.l Comment. 
The Diamond mines of South Africa 51 
Review of Recent Geological Literature. 
Om Sularpsbackens Dalgang. /. C. Moberg ^^ 
Contributions to the Petrography of the Jolni Day basin, prank 
C. Calkins 54 
Maryland Geological Survey, vol. IV. W. B. Clark 54 
Les Roches volcaniques de la Martinique. A. Lacroix 55 
Monthly Author's Catalogue of American Geological Liter- 
ature, 59 
Correspondence. 
Apatite crystals, Antwerp, New York. Nicholas Knight 62 
Fall Excursions of the Geological Department. Columbia Uni- 
versity. H. IV. Shimer, 62 
Personal and Scientific News. 
Chicago Academy of Sciences, 64; Geological Society of 
Washington, 64; Bath Furnace Meteorite, 64 J. W. Spencer, 
65 ; Am. Inst. Min. Engineers, 65 ; New Mexico Academy of 
Sciences, 65 ; The late meetings of the Geological Society and 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
at Washington 66 
