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Science, Aug. 21. A northern Michigan baselevel, C. R. Van Hise: 
Current notes on physiography^ W. M. Davis; The "Kansan" glacial 
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Science. Aug. 28. An Ozark soil, O. H. Hershey: Impossible volca- 
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Jour, of Geol. July-Aug. Decomposition of rocks in Brazil, O. A. 
Derby; Italian petrological sketches, I, the Bolsena region, H. S. 
Washington: Drainage modifications and their interpretation, M. R. 
Campbell: Glacial studies in Greenland, IX, T. C. Chamberlin: Defor- 
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School of Mines Quart., vol. 17, no. i. July, 1896. The genesis of the 
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Amer. Jour. Sci., Sept. Bearpaw mountains of Montana, W. H. 
Weed and L. V. Pirsson; Is the land around Hudson bay at present 
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as related to structure, by L. M. Hoskins: Bethany limestone of the 
western interior coal-field, C. R. Keyes: Thickness of the Paleozoic 
sediments in Arkansas, J. C. Branner; Devonian of north Missouri, 
with notice of a new fossil. G. C. Broadhead: A visit to the Great Bar- 
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Nat. Geog. Mag., Sept. The recent earthquake wave on the coast of 
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Amer. Jour. Sci., Oct. Notes on some Mesozoic plants from near 
Oroville, Cal., W. M. Fontaine; On crystal measurement by means of 
angular coordinates and on the use of the goniometer with two circles, 
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Science, Sept. 4. Current notes on physiography, W. M. Davis. 
Science, Sept. 11. Geological myths, B. K. Emerson; Commercial 
mica in North Carolina: the story of its discovery, F. W. Simonds. 
Science, Sept. 18. Section E of the A. A. A. S., W. N. Rice. 
Science, Sept. 25.* Current notes on physiography, W. M. Davis. 
Science, Oct. 2. Geology in the colleges and universities of the Uni 
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Science, Oct. 9. The Cornell expedition to Greenland. R. S. Tarr: 
Current notes on physiography, W. M. Davis. 
Science, Oct. 16. The geology of Block island, Arthur Hollick. 
Science, Oct. 23. Current notes on physiography, W. M. Davis. 
Science, Oct. 30. Geology in the colleges of the United States, L. 
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