64 The American Geologist. J"'^'- ^^'^-■ 
In several numbers are lists of the subscribers' names. In 
the first number this Hst inchides 25 subscribers at 'Washing- 
ton and 35 at Pliiladelphia, the former beginning with "An- 
drew Jackson, President of the United States (2 copies.)" 
In the September Xo. (1831) the hst at Washington rose to 
29 and that at Philadelphia to 102. 
The publisher failed in business, made an assignment, and 
no accounting for subscriptions paid could be had. This 
greatly delayed and deranged the journal. Mr. Feathers- 
tonhaugh continued the journal at his own expense, complet- 
ing the volume. Every number was filled with interesting 
and important scientific papers, including several letters from 
Audubon, then traveling and collecting in Florida. 
This publication, which is almost unknown in American 
scientific literature, contains numerous original geological doc- 
uments, and constitutes a very creditable beginning of Amer- 
ican geological journalism ; and it is also a very interesting and 
valuable historic unit in the development of American sci- 
ence. N. H. w. 
REVIEW OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL 
LITERATURE. 
SttiiiJiiary Report of the Geological Surz'cy Dcpartiueiit for the cal- 
endar year 1901. Ottawa, 1902; pp. 269, and 13 sketch maps. 
Robert Bell, acting director. 
Besides the comprehensive repbrt of Dr. Bell, this document em- 
braces the reports of numerous assistants, all of them general sum- 
maries of their work of 1901. There are thirty-one parties in the 
field, some of them being under the direction of temporary employes 
generally college professors, who could devote only the summer season 
to the survey. The various sub-reports are given in the words of their 
authors and under their own names, instead of being run together 
under the name of the director. The order of presentation is geo- 
graphic, running from the northwest to the southeast. 
Mr. R. G. McConnell reports on the Yukon district; Dr. R. A. Daly 
on the western part of the international boundary; Mr. R. W. Brock 
on the Boundary Creek district of British Columbia ; Mr. W. W. 
Leach on the Crow's Nest coal fields ; on Red Deer river. Alberta, and 
on Trionyx foveatus Leidy, and Trionyx vagans Cope, from the Cre- 
taceous rocks of Alberta, by L. M. Lambe ; on the region southwest 
of Lac Seul, by Wm. Mclnnes ; on the country west of Nipigon lake 
and river, by A. W. G. Wilson; on the country east of Nipigon lake 
