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RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 
I. Government and State Repaints. 
Report of the Department of Mines, Nova Scotia, for the year ending 
Sept. 30, 1896, Edwin Gilpin, Jr. 76 pp., Halifax, 1897. 
Illinois State Mus. Nat. Hist., Bull. 12, 69 pp., 5 pis., Jan. 25, 1897. 
New species of crinoids, cephalopods and other palaeozoic fossils, S. A. 
Miller and W. F. E. Gurley. 
Smithsonian Rept. for 1894, 1896. The origin of the oldest fossils and 
the discovery of the bottom of the ocean, W. K. Brooks. 
U. S. Geol. Survey, Geologic Atlas, folio 30, Yellowstone National 
Park, Arnold Hague, W. H. Weed and J. P. Iddings. 
Geol. Survey of Canada. Summary report for 1896, G. M. Dawson. 
144 pp., 1897. 
University Geol. Survey of Kansas, vol. 2, xi and 318 pp., 48 pis., 
1897. Introduction to Kansas geology; Physiography of western Kan- 
sas, Erasmus Haworth; The Upper Permian and Lower Cretaceous, C. 
S. Prosser; The Upper Cretaceous of Kansas, W. N. Logan, with an in- 
troduction by E. Haworth; The Kansas Niobrara Cretaceous, S. W. 
Williston; Physical properties of the Tertiary, E. Haworth; The Mc- 
Pherson Equus beds, E. Haworth and J. W. Beede; The Pleistocene of 
Kansas, S. W. Williston. 
Geol. Survey of N. Y.; Palaeontology, vol. 8, xvi and 394 pp., pis. 21- 
84, 1894. An introduction to the study of the genera of Palaeozoic Bra- 
chiopoda, part II. James Hall assisted by J. M. Clarke. 
//. Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 3rd ser.. Geology, vol. 1, no, 1, pp. 1-71, pis. 1- 
3, Feb. 4, 1897. The geology of Santa Catalina island, W. S. Tangier 
Smith. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Philadelphia, 1896, pt. 3, 1897. New and 
interesting Eocene Mollusca from the Gulf states, G. D. Harris; Fossil 
bones of birds and mammals from Grotto Pietro Tamponi and Grive- 
St. Alban, R. W. Shufeldt: Geology of the mussel-bearing clays of 
Fish-House, N. J., H. A. Pilsbry. 
Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 15, 1896. Geological notes: Long island 
and Nantucket, Arthur Hollick; Post-Pliocene deposits of Sankaty head , 
F. J. H. Merrill; Notes on the geology of Block island, F.J. H. Merrill; 
An account of the summer's work in geology on lake Champlain, Gilbert 
van Ingen and T. G. White: Notes on the areal geology of Glacier bay, 
Alaska, H. P. Gushing; Notes on the geology of Indian Territory, J .J. 
Stevenson; The faunas of the Upper Ordovician strata at Trenton Falls, 
Oneida county, N. Y., T. G. White; Is Paljeospondylus a cyclostorae?, 
Bashford Dean; The Cerillos coal tiejd, J. J. Stevenson; On the occur 
rence of cirripedes in the Cambrian rocks of North America, G. F. 
Matthew: On the vertebral column, fins, and ventral armoring of Din- 
ichthys, Bashford Dean; Faunas of the Paradoxides beds in eastern 
North America, G. F. Matthew; On the existence of pre-Cambrian and 
post-Ordovic'iau trap dikes in the Adirondacks, H. P. Gushing; The 
