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A handbook of rocks, for use without the microscope, J. F. Kemp. 
vii and 17G pp.. New York, 1896; jjublished for the author. 
A preliminary report upon the Florida parishes of east Louisiana and 
the bluff, prairie and hill lands of southwest Louisiana, W. W. Clen- 
denin. Pp. 163-257, 1896. 
Notes on some specimens of minerals from Washington heights, New 
York city, E. O. Hovey. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, pp. 311- 
342. 
Structural details in the Green Mountain region and in eastern New 
York, T. N. Dale. U. S. Geol. Survey, 16th Ann. Rept., pt. 1, pp. 543- 
570, 1896. 
Principles of North American pre-Cambrian geology (with an appen- 
dix on flow and fracture of rocks as related to structvire by L. M. Hos- 
kins), C. R. Van Hise. U. S. Geol. Survey, 16th Ann. Rept., pt. 1, pp. 
571-874, pis. 108-117, 1896. 
Notes on the osteology of the White River horses, M. S. Farr. Proc. 
Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 35. pp. 147-175, pi. 13; reprinted Sept. 7, 1896. 
The Jura of Texas, Jules Marcou. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 
27, pp. 149-158, Oct., 1896. 
The genetic relations of certain minerals of northern New York, C. 
H. Smyth, Jr. Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 15, pp. 260-270, Sept. 25, 
1896. 
The physical features of Missouri, C. F. Marbut. Mo. Geol. Survey, 
vol. 10, pp. 11-109, pis. 1-11, 1896. 
The formation of the Quaternary deposits of Missouri, J. E. Todd. 
Mo. Geol. Survey, vol. 10, pp. 111-217, pis. 12-23, 1896. 
The glacial deposits of Indiana, Frank Leverett. Inland Educator, 
pp. 24-32, Aug., 1896. 
V. Proceedings of Scientific Laboratories, etc. 
Univ. of Cal., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-92, pis. 1-2, May, 
1896. The geology of point Sal, H. W. Fairbanks. 
Field Columbian Mus. Zool. ser.,vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 101-106, pis. 14-15, 
June, 1896. On the skeleton ot Toxochelys latiremis, O. P. Hay. 
Bull. Dept. Geol. Univ. of Cal., vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 93-100, pi. 3, Aug., 
1896. On some Pliocene Ostracoda from near Berkeley, Frederick 
Chapman. 
Univ. of Wyoming, Sch. of Mines, Petroleum series, bull. 1, 47 pp., 
June, 1896. The geology and technology of the Salt Creek oil field, W. 
G. Knight; The analysis of the Salt Creek petroleum, E. E. Slosson. 
Field Columbian Museum, Zool. ser., vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 99 106, pis. 14- 
15, June, 1896. On the skeleton of Toxochelys latiremis, O. P. Hay. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Aoadkmy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has 
conferred the Hayden Memorial Geological award for 189() on 
Prof. Giovanni Capellini of tiie University of Bologna. 
