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Annual Report of the Insjjector of Mines of Kentucky for 1895. By 
C. J. Norwood, Chief Inspector and Curator of the Geological Dejjart- 
ment, and W. U. Gbider, Assistant. Pp. vii, 326, Louisville, 1896. 
This report is not, like so many which deal with mine inspection, sim- 
jjly a list of mines and of the accidents which have occurred in them 
during the year. Planned and prepared on a liberal scale, by a compe 
tent geologist, it contains the usual statistical data in considerable de- 
tail and then goes on to give an account of the various mines in one 
chapter of 70 pages, a paper on "Coal-dust as an Explosive Agent," pp. 
171191; one on "Coking and Coal-v/ashing at Earlington." by J. B. 
Atkinson, pp. 191-207: a chapter on "Steam Tests of Kentucky Coal," 
pp. 208-24:.3: a general article on "Kentucky Mineral Wealth," by C.J. 
Norwood, pp. 21:3-292, and chapters on petroleum and phosphates in 
Kentucky and the prevailing laws relating to mining. 
From the statistical data we learn that there were 138 coal mines in 
operation in 1895. These produced 3,207,770 short tons of coal, worth 
80.5 cents per ton at the mine. There were produced 25,450 tons of coke 
in 214 ovens. 
The paper on the mineral weal-th of the state is a valuable resume and 
contains references to the coal, iron ores, fluor spar, baryta, lead, as- 
phaltum, clays, petroleum and building stones. h. v. w. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
7T-'. Excerpts and Indiiu'dnal Pnhlications. 
Manual of determinative mineralogy, with an introduction on blow- 
pipe analysis, by G. J. Bru.9h. Revised and enlarged by S. L. Penfield. 
8vo, ix, 163, 63-108 pp.: New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1896. 
L'extension du systeme taconique vers I'Ouest, N. H. Winchell. 
Compte-rendu du Cong.geol. intern.. 6e Ses. (Zurich, 1894), pp. 272-308, 
1896. 
Faunas of the Paradoxides beds in eastern North America, No. 1, G. 
F. Matthew. Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 15, pp. 192-247, pis. 14-17. 
Aug. 3, 1896. 
The Jura of Texas, Jules Marcou. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 
27, pp. 149-158, Oct., 1896. 
On the fracture system of joints, with remarks on certain great frac- 
tures, J. B. Woodworth. Ibid., pp. 163-483, pis. 1-5, Nov., 1896. 
A new occurrence of CarVjoniferous fossils in the Narragansett basin, 
M. L. Fuller. Ibid., pp. 195-199, 1896. 
Bibliography of Missouri geology, C. R. Keyes. Mo. Geol. Survey, 
vol. 10, pp. 219-523, 1896. 
Catalogue of the fossils of the Trenton and Cincinnati periods oc- 
curring in the vicinity of Cincinnati, O., G. W. Harper and R. S. Bass- 
ler. 34 pp.; Cincinnati, W. B. Carpenter Co., 1896. 
A geological reconnaissance in northwestern Oregon, J. S. Diller. U. 
S. Geol. Survey, 17th Ann. Rept.. pt. 1, pp. 1-80, pis. 4-16. 1896. 
