Contc/its. T 
Review of Recent Geological Literature . — Is the White River Tertiary 
all ^olian Formation? W. D. Matthew, 250.- -Nineteenth An- 
nual Report of the U. S. Geol. Survey to the Secretary of the In- 
terior, 1897-98, Charles D. Walcott, Director, 251. — Geological 
Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report for the year 1898, John C. 
Smock, State Geologist, 25;3,— Origin of Grahamite, I. C. White, 
253. — A Contribution to the Study of Contact Metamorphisra, J. 
Morgan Clements. 254. — The Petrographical Province of Essex 
County, Mass., Henry S. Washington, 255. — A Contribution to 
the Geology of the Fox River Valley, Wis., Samuel Weidman, 257. 
Monthly Authors' Catalogue of American Literature, 257. 
Personal and Scientific News, 262. 
NOVEMBER NUMBER. 
A New Cystocrinoidean Species from the Ordovician, F. 
W. Sakdeson, [Plate XII.] 26!} 
Notes on the Corundum Bearing Rocks of Eastern On- 
tario, Onada. Willet G. Miller. [Plate XIII.] 276 
Archaeological Notes on Central Minnesota. Oscar H. 
Hershey 283 
On Stratification Planes, Charles E. Keyes 294 
Eruption of Mauna Loa, 1899. Edgar Wood. [Plate 
XIV.] 300 
Revieiv of Recent Geological Literature. — A Memoir on the Paleozoic 
Sponges, constituting the Family Dictyospongidje, James Hall 
and John M. Clarke, 304. — Petrographical Notes on Some Rocks 
from the Fiji islands, Arthur S. Eakle, 305. — Mineral Resources 
of Kansas, 1898, Erasmus Haworth, 305. — Geschichte der Ge- 
ologie und Paleontologie, K. A. Von Zittel, 306. — Geology of the 
Aspen Mining District, Colorado, Josiah Edward Spurr, 307. — 
The Crystal Falls iron-bearing District of Michigan, J. M. 
Clements. 308. — Upper Silurian Fauna of the Rio Trombetas, 
Province of Para, Brazil, and Devonian Mollusks from the State of 
Para, Brazil, John M. Clarke, 311. — Analysis and Composition of 
Roscoelite, W. F. Hillebkand, 317. — Chemical Composition of 
Roscoelite, F. W. Clarke, 318. — The Occurrence of Roscoelitt^, H. 
W. Turner, 318. — On the Chemical Composition of Parisite and a 
New Occurrence of it in Ravilli County, Montana, S. L. Penfield 
and C. H. Warren, 318.— The Constitution of Tourmaline, F. W. 
Clarke, 318. — Notes on a New Meteoric Iron found near Tombig- 
bee River, in Choctaw and Sumter Counties, Ala., U. S. A., War- 
ren M. FooTE, 319. — An Albertite-like Asphalt in the Choctaw 
Nation, I. T., Jos. A. Taff, 319 —On the Separation of Alumina 
from Molten Magmas and the Foi'iiiation of Corundum, J. H. 
