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RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
1. Government and State Reports. 
Kept. III. Board World's Fair Coin., xiv and 757 pp.. 1895. Geologi- 
cal report, J. Lindahl; Soils of Illinois, Frank Leverett; Report on the 
examination of some soils from Illinois, Milton Whitney: A geological 
section across the northern part of Illinois, J. A. Udden; Greological 
section — St. Louis to Shawneetovvn, J. M. Nickles; Glacial geology, Os- 
sian Guthrie. 
U. S. Geol. Survey. Bull. 141, 167 pp., 40 pis., 1896. The Eocene de- 
posits of the Middle x^tlantic slojje in Delaware. Maryland and Virginia, 
W. B. Clark. 
U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 146, 130 pp., 1896. Bibliography and index 
of North American geology, paleontology, petrology, and mineralogy for 
the year 1895, F. B. Weeks. 
U. S. Geol. Survey, 16th (1894-95) Ann. Rept., pt. 1 (Director's report 
and papers of a theoretical nature), xxii and 910 pp., 117 pis., 1896. Re- 
port of the director, C. D. Walcott: The dino.saurs of North America, O. 
C. Marf^h; Glacier bay and its glaciers, H. F. Reid; Some analogies in 
the lower Cretaceous of Europe and America, L. F. Ward; Structural 
details in the Green Mountain region and in eastern New York, T. N. 
Dale: Principles of Pre -Cambrian North American Geology, C. R. Van 
Hise; Flow and fracture of rocks as related to structure, L. M. Hoskins; 
Summary of primary triangulation executed between the years 1882 and 
1894, Henry Gannett. 
Geol. Survey of Georgia. Administrative report of the State Geolo- 
gist, W. S. Yeates. 45 pp., 5 pis., 1896. 
Geol. Survey of Alabama. Report on the valley regions of Alabama 
(Paleozoic strata). Pt. I, The Tennessee valley region, Henry MeCalley. 
xvii and 436 pp., 9 pis., 1896. 
Calif. State Mining Bureau. 13th report (3rd biennial) of the state 
mineralogist, for the two years ending Sept. 15, 1896, J. J. Crawford, 
xiii and 726 pp., 1896. 
II. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 26 (1894), pp. 1-202, 1896. Evidences of subsi- 
dence and elevation in Essex Co. in recent geological time, as shown by 
field work at the seashore, J. H. Sears; On a preglacial sand plain, 
probably of the Tertiary age, in the central part of Essex Co., Mass., J. 
H. Sears; Report on the geology of Essex Co.. Mass., to accompany 
map, J. H. Sears: List of the minerals of Essex Co., Mass., J. H. Sears. 
Congres Greologique International, xx and 733 pp., 1896. Catalogue 
des bibliographies geologiques, Emm. de Margerie. 
Bull. Amer. Museum of Nat. Hist., vol. 8, vii and 327 pp., 14 pis., 
1896. Species of Hyracotherium and allied Perissodactyls from the 
Wahsatch and Wind River beds of North America, J. L. Wortman: 
Catalogue of meteorites in the collection of the American Museum of 
Natural History, to July 1, 1896, E. O. Hovey; The cranial evolution of 
Titanotherium, H. F. Osborn; Description of a new genus of fossiJ 
