144 The Ainericdn GeoUxiisf. Febrtiary, i»97 
Ottawa Naturalist, Nov.. 1896. New species of graptolites from Can- 
ada. H. M. Ami. 
Canadian Rec. of Sei., July, 188G. Canadian stromatoporoids, J. F. 
Whiteaves; Nematophyton crassum, D. P. Penhallow: Pre-Cambrian 
fossils, especially in Canada, J. W. Dawson. 
Amer. Jour. Sei., Jan. Some queries on rock differentiation, G. F. 
Becker; On igneous rocks from Smyrna and Pergamon, H. S. Wash- 
ington; Note on a new meteorite from the Sacramento mountains, Eddy 
Co., New Mexico, W. M. Footo; Catalogue of the collection of meteor- 
ites in the Peabody Museum of Yale University. H. S. Washington. 
Science, Jan. 1. The geology of government explorations, S. F. Em- 
mons; Current notes on physiography, W^. M. Davis. 
Science, Jan. 8. The geology of government explorations, S. F. Em- 
mons: Volcanic dust in southwestern Nebraska and in South Dakota, 
J.E.Todd. 
Science, Jan. 15. Geological Society of America, ninth annual meet- 
ing. J. F. Kemp. 
Technological Quart., Dec. 1896. Origin of pegmatite. W. O. Crosby 
and M. L. Fuller. 
Eng. and Mining Jour., Jan. 9. The hematites of Alabama geologi- 
cally considered, Henry McCalley. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The American Antiquarian (under the editorship of Rev. 
Stephen D. Peet, Good Hope, 111.) will publish, during, the 
present year, a' series of articles, by different authors, on the 
relations of geology and anthropolog3^ 
Lehigh University has received from Mrs. Coxe, widow of 
the late Eckley B. Coxe, of Drifton, Pa., the technical library 
of Mr. Coxe. This library is especially rich in sets of various 
Journals and transactions of scientific societies. 
Joseph D. Weeks, editor of the Aurerican. Manufacturer^ 
died on Dec. 26th at Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Weeks was known 
to geologists chiefly through his economic work for the U. S. 
Geological Survey which he began in 1SS5. In the 16th An- 
nual Report of that survey he contributed papers (Mineral 
Resources) on manganese, petroleum, natural gas and manu- 
facture of coke. 
Glaciation in the Puget Sound region. During the past 
season the drift deposits about the southeastern edge of Puget 
sound have been studied in some detail. They are found to 
consist of several beds of till, separated by stratified deposits 
of clay, sand and coarse gravel, together with widely distrib- 
uted lignite beds. The character and extent of the glaciation 
of the Puget sound region are indicated in these deposits, and 
it is found that the principal flow of ice was rather from Ihe 
