Review of Recent Geological Literature. 253 
gas, stone, cement, and salt, like the metals, increased in the values 
of their production. w. u. 
Geological Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report for the Year 
i8g8. John C. Smock, State Geologist. Pages xxxii, v\, 244, and 102; 
with 28 plates, and 20 figures in the text. 
Professor Smock, in his administrative report, announces that a 
map of the surface deposits of this state is being prepared on the 
scale of a mile to an inch, making thirty-four map sheets, to be ac- 
companied by two volumes of descriptive text. This part of the state 
survey is under the direction of Prof. R. D. Salisbury, with Mr. G. N. 
Knapp as his assistant. 
A new topographic map is also begun on the scale of 2,000 feet to 
an inch. The field work for the Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Hack- 
ensack and Camden sheets has been done; and they are being en- 
graved by Julius Bien & Co. 
Much attention is being given to plans of dikes and canals for 
reclaiming the marshes which occupy about 27,000 acres between 
Elizabeth and Hackensack. 
Forest surveys have been made by Mr. Gifford Pinchot and Prof. 
Arthur Hollick; a thorough investigation of the underground water 
supply is being made by Mr. C. C. Vermeule; and the fire-brick, other 
clay-working and iron-mining industries are reported by Mr. George 
E. Jenkins. 
In the present annual report. Prof. Salisbury .vrites on "The Soils 
of New Jersey and their Relation to the Geological Formations which 
imderlie them"; and this paper includes a small preliminary map of the 
surface formations of the state. Dr. Henry B. Kiimmel reports on the 
northward extension of the Newark system of rocks in New York, 
to their end on the Hudson river at Stony Point. Mr. Lewis Wool- 
man continues his very valuable records of artesian wells; Mr. Ver- 
meule treats of water supply from wells, and of the pine belt of 
southern New Jersey and its water supply; and Mr. Jenkins writes 
of the industries before noted. 
In an appendix of 102 -pages. Mr. Pinchot contributes "A Study 
of Forest Fires and Wood Production in Southern New Jersey," illus- 
trated by twenty-three plates. This work is partly to be incorporated 
in the same author's handbook of forestry soon to be issued by the 
United States Department of Agriculture. w. u. 
Origin of Grahainitc. By I. C. White. (Bull. Genl. Soc. Am., 10, 
277-284.) 
The grahamite of Ritchie county. West Virginia, first described by 
Lesley in 1863. and more fully by Fontaine in 1873, fills a vertical 
fissure about two-thirds of a mile long, varying in width from a few 
inches at the ends to 4 and 5 feet in the middle. The fissure is at 
right angles to and undoubtedly genetically connected with the Burn- 
ing Springs-Eureka anticlinal which, with dips of from 30° to 70°, 
'Crosses the formation about 7 miles west of the deposit. Lesley pre- 
