i- The American Geologist. January, 1894 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
/. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Bull. N. Y. State Museum, Vol. 3. No. 11, 1893, contains: Salt and 
gypsum industries of New York, F. J. H. Merrill. 
Annals of the N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. 8, Nos. 1-3, 1893, contains: A 
study of the New York obelisk as a decayed boulder, A. A. Julien. 
Proc. of the Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist., Vol. 26, Pt. 1, 1892-93, con- 
tains: The origin of drumlins, W. Upham; Remarks on drumlins, W. 
M. Davie; Remarks on drumlins, G. H. Barton; Indian quarries in Ar- 
kansas, L. S. Oris wold; Deflected glacial stria? in Somerville, W. Up- 
ham; The Fishing Banks between Cape Cod and Newfoundland, W. 
Upham; Evidences of Man in Nicaragua, J. Crawford; Bioplastology 
and the related branches of biologic search, A. Hyatt; Traces of a fauna 
in the Cambridge slates, J. B. Woodworth. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Pt. 2, 1893, contains: Description of a lower 
jaw of Tetrabelodon shepardii, E. D. Cope; Cretaceous ammonites and 
other fossils near Moorestown, N. J.; Their stratigraphic position shown 
by an artesian well section at Maple Shade, N. J.: Incidental reference 
to water horizons, L. Woolman: Remarks on a new species of Cypnea, 
J. Ford; Notes on the physical geography of Texas, R. S. Tarr. 
Jour. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 15, No. 2, 1892, contains: The 
preservation of plants as fossils, J. F. James; Some new species and new 
structural parts of fossils, S. A. Miller and C. Faber; Manual of the 
paleontology of the Cincinnati group, J. F. James (Pt. Ill); Remarks 
on the stems and roots of crinoids near Lebanon, Ohio, D. T. D. Dyche. 
Vol. 15, Nos. 3-4, 1892-93, contains: Manual of the paleontology of the 
Cincinnati group, J. F. James ( Pt. IV); Microscopical study of Ohio 
limestones, G. P. Grimsley. 
Vol. 16, Nos. 2-3, 1893, contains: Studies in problematic organisms. 
No. II— The genus Fucoides, J. F. James; Remarks on the genus Ar- 
throphycus, Hall, J. F.James; Natural History notes from North Car- 
olina, A. G. Wetherby; Fossil fungi, J. F. James. 
Cal. Acad. Sci., Occasional papers, IV, 1893, contains: A classed and 
annotated bibliography of the Palaeozoic Crustacea, 1698-1892, to which 
is added a catalogue of North American species, A. W. Vogdes. 
Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol.3, Pt. 2, 1893, contains: Geological surveys 
in the state of California, A. W. Vogdes. 
Bull. Geol. Soc. of America, Vol.5, Nov., 1893, contains: Proc. of the 
Fifth summer meeting, held at Madison, Aug. 15-16, 1893. 
Proc. of the Biol. Soc. of Washington, Vol. 8, July, 1893, contains: 
The paleontology of the Cretaceous formations of Texas; The inverte- 
brate fossils of the Caprina limestone beds, Robt. T. Hill. 
//. Papers in Scientific Journals. 
School of Mines Quarterly, Vol. XIV, No. 1, July 1893, contains: 
Notes on the Lower Coal Measures of Western (Jlearfield county, Pa., 
