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Recent Publications. 
Climate. By Geo. H. Cook. 439 pp. Roy. 8vo. One general state map 
and one relief map of the state showing elevations above the sea by differ¬ 
ent shades of color. Geol. Sur. of New Jersey. 
2. Proceedings of scientific societies. 
The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society of North Carolina 
contains: Of the three Crystallographic Axes, W. B. Phillips; Chlorina¬ 
tion of Auriferous Sulphides, E.A. Thies; Mica Mining in North Car¬ 
olina. W. B. Phillips; The change in Superphosphates when they are 
applied to the soil, H. B. Battle. 
Twenty-second report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of Harvard 
University. Report of the Curator, F. W. Putnam. 60 pp. 8vo. 
3. Papers in scientific journals. 
American Naturalist Nov. No. Cretaceous Floras of the northwest 
Territories of Canada. William Dawson. On the Glacial Drift and 
Loess of a portion of the Northern-Central Basin of Iowa. Clement S. 
Webster. Dec. No. Surface Geology of Burlington, Iowa. Charles 
R. Keyes. The Evolution of Mammallian Molars to and from the Tri- 
tubercular Type. Henry F. Osborn. The Artiodaetyla. E. D. Cope. 
Amer. Jour. Sci. Jan. No. Description of a new mineral beryilonite. 
Dana and Wells. The iron ores of the Penokee-Gogebic series of Mich¬ 
igan and Wisconsin. C. R. Van Hise. A quartz keratophyre from Pigeon 
point, and Irving’s augite-syenites. W. S. Bayley. On the occurrence 
of hanksite in California. Henry G. Hanks. Sperrylite, a new mineral. 
H. L. Wells. On the crystalline form of sperrylite. S. L. Penfield. 
Canadian Record of Science, vol. iii, No. 5. The Great Lake basins of 
the St. Lawrence. A. T. Drummond. Note on Balanus hameri in the 
Pleistocene at Riviere Beaudette. Sir Wm. Dawson. Modern concretions 
from the Ste. Lawrence. Rev. Prof. Kavanagh; with remarks on cylin¬ 
ders found in the Potsdam sandstone. On the classification of the Cam¬ 
brian rocks in Acadia. G. F. Matthew, Montreal. Published by the 
Natural History Society. 
4. Excerpts and individual publications. 
Date of the publication of the report upon the geology of Vermont. 
By C. H. Hitchcock. Proc. Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist.. (Replies to the strict¬ 
ures of Mr. Marcou.) 
Inorganic coal and limestone, in an electro-chemical world. By T. S. 
Emery. 8vo. 139 pp. seven plates. Philadelphia. 
The Ivorydale well in Mill creek valley and an ancient channel of the 
Ohio river at Cincinnati. By Prof. Jos. F. James. Jour . Cin. Soc. Nat.. 
Hist. 
The Structure and Development of the Visual Area in the Trilobite,. 
Phacops rana, Green. By J. M. Clarke. Journal of Morphology, vol.ii.- 
No. 2. 
The life history of Niagara. By Dr. Julius Pohlman. Tram. Am. Inst . 
Min. Eng. 
