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aad very often his independence has been asserted at cost of his personal 
advantage. 
Mr. Marcou has radical and sometimes impractical views touching the 
U. S. Geological Survey, but some of his strictures have a basis of just 
criticism. He thinks the survey has been too costly, especially in pub- 
lication, and spread over too wide a iield. He would have the field-work 
wholly completed in a district before the geologists publish any of 
the results, and he would have all reports confined strictly to descriptive 
facts, without entering into controversy. Precipitate publication en- 
tails contradiction and correction, and he would have the work of the 
survey above possible correction. He questions the capability and 
sometimes the candor of many of the leading collaborators on the survey, 
and would have every employe who may be responsible for any geolog- 
ical work, well informed on the geology of the original typical Euro- 
pean localities ; and when such cannot be found in America, he would 
have European geologists employed, or would send American geologists 
to Europe to stmiy for several months the rocks and fossils which first 
gave name and character to the formations which the separate geologists 
may be entrusted with in the United States. 
This document was freely distributed at Washington, and it was one 
of the factors to produce the late unfavorable action of congress in re- 
fusing the customary appropriation for the survey. 
LIST OF RECEl!^T PUBLIOATIOI^rS. 
/. State and Oovernment Reports. 
Geol. Surv. of Penn. The Summary Final Report, Vol. 1, describing 
the Laurentiau, Huroniau, Cambrian and Lower Silurian formations, 
pp. 719. Harrisburg, 1892. Atlas: Southern Anthracite Field: Parts 
IV B, V and vi, 1891. 
Geol. Surv. of N. J. Annual report of the State Geologist for 1891, 
pp. 270. Trenton, 1892. 
Geol. Surv. of Ala. Bulletin No. 2. On the Phosphates and Marls of 
Alabama, by E. A. Smith, State Geologist, pp. 82. Montgomery, 1892, 
Ken. Geol. Surv. Report on the Progress of the Survey for 1890 and 
1891, by John R. Proctor, pp. 26 with map. Frankfort, 1892. 
U. S. Geol. Surv. Monographs, Vol. xvii. The Flora of the Dakota 
Group, by Leo Lesquereux, pp. 400. Washington, 1892. 4to. 
Eighth Annual Report of the State Geologist of N. Y. for 1888 con- 
tains: A classified list of the Pahieozoic genera of Brachiopoda, by J. 
M. Clarke. A list of fossils in the Oriskany sandstone of Maryland, New 
York and Ontario, Canada, with an indication of their geological range, 
by Charles Schuchert; The Genus Bronteus in the Chemung rocks of 
New York, by James Hall; A list of the species constituting the known 
fauna and fiora of the Marcellus epoch in New York state, by J. M. 
Clarke; The Hercynian Question, by J, M. Clarke; On the locality of 
