Recent Publications. 340 
EEOENT PUBLICATIONS. 
1. State and government reports. 
A description of the desiccated human remains in the California State 
Mining Bureau. By Winslow Anderson, M. D. Bulletin No. 1. of the 
State Mining Bureau. 
The iron ores east of the Mississippi river. By John Birkinbine. Ab- 
stract from "Jfineral resources of the ZTnited States,^^ 1887. 
Report on the geology of a portion of the eastern townships relating 
more especially to the counties of Compton, Stanstead, Beauce, Rich- 
mond and Wolfe. By R. W. Ells. Part J of the annual report (1886) of 
the Canadian geological survey. 
2. Proceedings of scientific societies. 
Palaeolithic man in eastern and central North America. Peabody Mus. 
Am. Arch, and Eth., Cambridge, IVFay, 1888. Consists of reprints from the 
Proceedings of the Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. xxiii. and contains articles by 
F. W . Putnam, C. G . Abbott, G. Frederick Wright and Warren JJplmm, 
vpith a discussion by Henry W. Haynes, E . S. Morse and F. W. Putnam. 
The journal of the Gincinnati Society of Natural History, vol. xi., No. 1, 
contains a valuable paper on the monticuliporoid corals of the Cincin- 
nati group, with a critical revision of the species, by U. P. and Joseph F. 
James. 
5. Papers in scientific journals. 
Am. Jour. 8ci., July No. History of changes in Mt. Loa craters. J. D. 
Dana. Summit crater of Mt. Loa crater in 1880 and 1885. Brigitam and 
Alexander. Bertrandite from Mt. Antero, Colorado. S. I-. Penfield. 
Some localities of Post-tertiary and Tertiary fossils in Massachusetts, 
W. W. DoDOE. A cordierite gneiss from Connecticut, E. O. Hovey. 
August No. History of changes in the Mt. Loa craters (II.) on Mokuaeoweo. 
J. D. Dana. The Fayette county, Texas, meteorite. Whitfield and 
Merrill. Evidence of the fossil plants as to the age of the Potomac 
formation. Lester F. Ward. September No. Cambrian fossils from 
Mount Stephens, Northwest territory of Canada. Chas. D. Walcott. 
History of changes in the Mt. Loa craters. Relations of Kilauea to Mt. 
Loa. J. D.Dana. On the origin of primary quartz in basalt. J. P. Id- 
dings. Mineralogical notes. By Geo. F. Kunz. October No. The struct- 
ure of Florida. L. C. Johnson. Rosetown extension of the Cortlandt 
series. J. F. Kemp. The contact-phenomena of the "Cortlandt series" on 
the adjoining mica-schists and limestones. G. H. Williams. The sed- 
entary habits of Platyceras. C. R. Ketes. Edisonite, a fourth form of 
titanic acid. W. E. Hidden. Two new masses of meteoric iron. G. F. 
Kunz, Preliminary notice of Beryllonite, a new mineral. E. S. Dana. 
The Ganadian Record of Science. On Sporocarps discovered by Prof. 
Orton in the Erian shale of Columbus, Ohio. Sir J. William Dawson. 
Notes on graptolites from Ueese river, B. C. Prof. Charles Lapworth. 
The great lake Basins of Canada. A. T. Drummond. 
American Naturalist, May No. Mountain Upthnists. By Charles 
A. AVhite. Notes on the Geology of Johnson County, Iowa. Clement 
