weeks.) PALEONTOLOGY, PETROLOGY, AND MINERALOGY, 1898. 77 
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645 Quereau (Edmund CJiase). Topography and history of Jamesville 
Lake, New York. 
Geol. Soc. Am., Bull., vol. ix, pp. 173-182, pis. 12-14 ; Abstract, Science, 
new ser., vol. vii, pp. 50-51 (£ p.), 1898; Review by W. M. Davis, Science, 
new ser., vol. vii, pp. 489-490, 1898. 
Describes the general features of tbe region, the origin of this and 
similar lakes, and the peculiar features of the Jamesville Gorge. 
646 Quimby (George E.). [Tripoli deposits of Newton County, Mis- 
souri.] 
The Mineral Industry, 1897, p. 17, 1898. 
Describes the character of the deposits. 
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647 Rand (Theodore D.). The Birdsboro trap quarries. 
Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Proc. 1898, p. 10, 1898. 
Gives a brief description of the trap rock. 
648 Ransome (F. Leslie). Some lava flows of the western slope of 
the Sierra Nevada, California. 
U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 89, 74 pp., pis. i-xi, 1898; Abstract, Am. Jour. 
Sci., 4th ser., vol. v, pp. 355-375, figs. 1-2; Review, Am. Nat., vol. xxxii, 
p. 614, 1898. 
Describes the physiography of the region, the occurrence, distribu- 
tion, and chemical and petrographic characters of the latites, and dis- 
cusses the classification of the rocks and the bearing of the lava flows 
on the evidence of oregenic movements. 
649 Reid (Harry Fielding). The variations of glaciers. III. 
Jour, of Geol., vol. vi, pp. 473-476, 1898. 
Gives a summary of the report of the international committee on 
glaciers, showing the movements of existing glaciers. 
650 The stratification of glaciers. 
Abstracts, Science, new ser., vol. viii, p. 463 (ip.); Am. Geol., vol. 
xxii,p.249(81.), 1898. 
651 Notes on living and extinct species of North American Bovidie. 
Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Proc. 1897, pp. 483-502, pi. xii, 1898. 
652 Rhoads (Samuel N.). Notes on the fossil walrus of eastern North 
America. 
Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Proc. 1898, pp. 196-201, 1898. 
Reviews the literature and describes some of the characters of the 
fossil walrus. 
653 Rice (William North). A suggestion in regard to the theory of 
volcanoes. 
Abstract, Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Proc, vol. xlvi, pp. 199-200, 1898. 
654 [Eeview of " Volcanoes of North America: A reading lesson 
for students of geography and geology," by Israel O. Russell.] 
Science, new §er., vol. vii, pp. 34-36, 1898. 
