Meviev of Recent (reological Literatuir. 38i> 
ists, as indeed tliey have been already dnriiifi; many years, before 
unanimity of opinions will be reached. 
Professor Haynes, in an appendix of ten pages, reviews the evidences 
which by some arclueologists have been thouglit to indicate man's 
existence in the Pliocene and Miocene periods, and concludes that 
they are wholly unreliable. The antiquity of our race, so far as it is 
demonstrated by geology, extends back, therefore, according to these 
authors, i)robably not much more than 20,000 or 30,000 years, for the 
earliest discovered traces of ])ala'olithic man seem referable to the 
time of maximum extension of the ice-sheets and tlieir (Misuing stages 
of retreat. 
Mdhnindiii frnin MmujoHd. Bv 1\. Lvdkk'Kku, Es<j. Contributed to the 
Records of tlie (-rcological survey of India (vol. xxiv, pt. 4, pp. 207-11). 
Fourteen specimens re])resenting several species {Hiiania Eqn\ts, 
Gazella) are described, and according to tlie author, great interest is 
attached to these species for the reason that they carry the Pliocene 
mammalian fauna to a more northern district of China, than has hith- 
■erto been reported, and that they indicate two new Indian Siwalik 
species in Chinese territt)ry. Three figures of teetli in tlie text. 
LIST OF EECEiS^T PUBLICATIOJ^^S. 
/. (_r<ircrinm-i(t (i/nl Sfdti' Hijiarls. 
Geological Hurvey of Texas, Bulletin No. 1. Artesian water on the 
Llano Estacado, Dr. Geo. G. Shumard ; also Kejiort and analyses of 
Texas Sumach (Ivhiis eojialb'na), by Georg(^ 11. Kalteyer. Austin, 
1892. pp. 19. 
Sketch of tlie (leology of Ahiliama. E. A. Smitli, state gecdogist, 
■octavo, ])p.. 36. 
First HejKirt of tlie Bureau of ]\Iines,to the Legislature of Ontario, 
Archibald F)hie. Toronto, 1892. pp. 253. ( )ne geological map. 
U. S. I)e])t. of Agriculture, Kelations of Soil to (Miniate. E. W. 
Ililgard, Washington, 1892, pj). 59. 
U. S. Geo). Survey, Mineral Besources of the United Stales, calen- 
dar years 1889 and 1890. David T. Day. Octavo, \)\). 671. 
//. I'rofi <'(lii/(/s (if Scii'iilijic Sdcii I li'x.. 
Acad. Mat. Sci.. Philadelphia, Part ii, April-October, contains: 
^lineral localities of l'hiladeli)hia and vicinity, Rand, Jefferies and 
Cardeza; The Fauna of the Blanco beds of Texas, E. D. Cope ; A 
revision of the North .\merican Creodonta, with notes on some genera 
wliirli have been referred to that group. W . I>. Scott. 
