19(i The American Geologist. Marcii, 1894 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
I. Government and State Reports. 
Geol. Sur. of Ark., Vol. 4, 1890, contains: Marbles and other lime- 
stones, T. C. Hopkins; The faults of the marble region of North Arkan- 
sas, T. C. Hopkins; Geologic map of the marble region of Arkansas, J. 
C. Branner and T. C. Hopkins. 
Calif. State Mining Bureau. 11th report of the State Mineralogist 
for two years ending Sept. 15, 1892, Wm. Irelan, Jr., State Mineralogist. 
Geol. Sur. of N. J., Annual report for 1892 contains: Surface geology, 
R,. D. Salisbury; Preliminary report of the Cretaceous and Tertiary for- 
mations of N. J., W. B. Clark; Water supply and water power, C. C. 
Vermeule; Artesian wells in southern New Jersey, L. Woolman; Notes 
on the sea-dikes of the Netherlands, and the Beclamation of the low- 
lands of the Netherlands, J. C. Smock. 
The climatology and physical features of Maryland: First biennial 
report of the Maryland State Weather Service, for the years 1892 and 
1893. Wm. B. Clark, Director. 140 pages. Baltimore, 1894. 
Fourth annual report of the Inspector of Mines, for the State of 
South Dakota. W. S. O'Brien, Inspector. 19 pages; Lead, 1893. 
Mineral resources of the United States, 1892. By David T. Day. 
$50 pages. U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, 1893. 
Bulletin No. 3 of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History con- 
tains: Descriptions of some new species of invertebrates from the 
Palaeozoic rocks of Illinois and adjacent states, S. A. Miller and W. F. 
E. Gurley. 
II. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 5, pp. 39-70, Nov., 1893, contains: Origin 
of the Pennsylvania anthracite, J. J. Stevenson. 
Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., Arts and Letters, vol. 9, pt. 2, 1893, con- 
tains: Geology of the Waterloo quartzite area (Plates 7-9), I. M. Buell. 
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 5. 1893, 
contains: Artionyx, a new genus of Ancylopoda, H. F. Osborn and J. 
L. Wortman; Acratherium tridactylum from the Lower Miocene of 
Dakota, H. F. Osborn: On the divisions of the White River or Lower 
Miocene of Dakota. J. L. Wortman; Ancestors of the tapir from the 
Lower Miocene of Dakota, J. L. Wortman and Charles Earle; Fossil 
mammals of the Upper Cretaceous, H. F. Osborn. 
///. Pujters in Scientific Journals. 
Amer. Jour. Sci., Vol. 47, Jan., 1894, contains: Petroleum in its rela- 
tion to asphaltic pavement, S. F. Peckham; The age of the extra-mo- 
raine fringe in eastern Pennsylvania, E. H. Williams, Jr.: Notes on the 
Cambrian rocks of Pennsylvania, from the Susquehanna to the Dela- 
ware, C. D. Walcott; Postglacial eolian action in southern New 
England, J. B. Woodworth. 
