74 The American Geologist. January, 1894 
Thompson. Extract from Fourth Annual Report of Geol. Surv. of 
Texas, 1893. 
Report on the Cretaceous Area North of the Colorado River, J. A. 
Taff. Extract from Fourth Annual Report of Geol. Sur. of Texas. 
1893. 
Quicksilver Ore Deposits with Statistical Tables, G. F. Becker. Extr. 
from "Mineral Resources of the U. S. for 1892." 
The origin of the crystalline schists of the Malvern Hills, 0. Callaway. 
Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, Vol. 49, 1893. 
The seiche in America, E. A. Perkins, Amer. Meteor. Jour., Oct., 
1893. 
The improvement of geographical teaching, W. M. Davis, Nat. Geog. 
Magazine, Vol. 5, 189-!. 
IV. Foreign Publications. 
Memoire della R. Accademia delle Scienze delF istituto di Bologna, 
Serie V, Toma II, contains: Terzo contributo alia conoscenza della 
microfauna terziaria italiana, C. Fornasini; Fossili retici della Mon- 
tagna di Cetona, V. Simonelli. 
Annual Report of the Department of Mines and Agriculture, New 
South Wales, for the year 1892. 
Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France, 3rd Serie, t. XX, No. 5, 
1892, contains: Note sur les Poissons du terrain Permien de l'Allier, H. 
E. Sauvage; Etude sur les Ammonites des etages moyens du systeme 
jurassique, E. Haug; Sur la geologie du Cbablais, M. Lugeon. 
No. 7, 1892 contains: Sur les terrains cretaces du massif de Bou- 
Thateb, E. Ficheur; Sur la decouverte du Palreonictis en Amerique, 
M. Osborn; Sur le comblement des lacs pyreneens, M. E. Belloc; Sur 
les plissements des couches sedimentaires dans les environs de Poitiers, 
J. Welsch. 
T. XXI, No. 1, 1893, contains: Le Ligurien et le Tongrien en Egypte 
Meyer,Eymar; Coup-d'ceil sur les eaux thermales des regions mesozo- 
iques du Portugal, P. Choffat. 
Compte-Rendu des Seances de la Societe Geologique de France, No. 
13, June, 1893. 
On the Dwindling and Disappearance of Limestones, F. Rutley, 
Quar. Jour, of the Geol. Society, Vol. XLIX, Aug., 1893. 
Catalogue of Type Fossils in the Manchester Museum, Owens Col- 
lege. 
Description of some new Birds collected on the Islands of Aldabra 
and Assumption, Northwest of Madagascar, by Dr. W. L. Abbott, Robt. 
Ridgway, Proc. Nat'l Museum, Vol. XVI, No. 953, Aug. 1893. 
Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de L'ouest de la 
France, T. 3, No. 1, 1893, contains: Recolte et la preparation desCeph- 
alopodes, M. L. Joubin. 
Zeit. fur prakt. Geologie, Heft 8, Jahr. 1893, Aug., 1893, contains: 
Die Form der EisenerzlagerstatteninHuttenberg, A. Brunlechner;Das 
Erzvorkommen von Cinque-valle bei Roncegno in Sudtirol, J. Haberfel- 
ner; Die Erzgange von Pontgibaud, M. Lodin. 
