fishes and are a valuable contribution which will be of use not only to the citizens of Kansas, but to all students of fossil fish. S. W. Profiles of Rivers in the United States. By HENRY GANNETT. Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 44, United States. Geological Survey. This interesting and valuable publication embodies within a hundred pages the leading facts of about one hundred and fifty of the most important rivers and streams of the country, noting their length, drainage area, the location of water power in their courses, their peculiarities of flow, and the nature of their drainage basins. The rivers selected are those which are the largest in size and bear most directly upon the varied interests of the country, such as the Connecticut, Hudson, Susquehanna, Ohio, Potomac, Mississippi, Missouri, Platte, Colorado, Sacramento, Columbia, and others. The figures for the tables showing height above sea level and fall per mile were collected from various sources; some were obtained from the report of the chief engineer of the United States army, some from railroad companies when their lines cross streams, and some from the Atlas sheets of the United States Geological Survey. In the case of such rivers as the Connecticut, Susquehanna, Mississippi, and Colorado, where the surrounding country is, in part or whole, of peculiar physiographic interest, very excellent and vivid descriptions of its leading physical characteristics are given. The pamphlet is the result of much careful work, and is the first attempt to collect and compile this information in its present form. G. B. H. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture for 1900. Washington, 1901. The portions of this important volume of most interest to geologists are those which relate to soil investigation and the special papers on "Mountain Roads," by James W. Abbott: "The Selection of Materials for Macadam Roads," by Logan Waller Page; "Objects and Methods of Investigating Certain Physical Properties of Soils," by Lyman J. Briggs; and "Practical Irrigation," by C. T. Johnston and J. D. Stannard. C. RECENT FUBLICATIONS --American Museum of Natural History. Annual Report for the year 1900. New York, 1901. --Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions of. Vol. VII. Melbourne, 1901. -BALDWIN, EVELYN B. Meteorological Observations of the Second Wellman Expedition. [Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1899-1900, Part VII.] Washington, 1901. -BARBOUK, ERWIN HINCKLEY. Sand Crystals and their Relation to Certain Concretionary Forms. Bull. of the Geol. Soc. of Am., Vol. XII, pp. 165– 172, plates 13-18. Rochester, April 1901. -BLAKE, JOHN CHARLES. A Mica-Andesite of West Sugarloaf Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado. Some Relations of Tetrahedral Combinations to Crystalline Form. [Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, Vol. VII, pp. 13-36.] Denver, April 1901. -BLAKE, WILLIAM P. Some Salient Features in the Geology of Arizona with Evidences of Shallow Seas in Paleozoic Times. [Reprinted from the American Geologist, March 1901.] The Caliche of Southern Arizona: An Example of Deposition by the Vadose Circulation. [Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Richmond meeting, February 1901.] --Canada, Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department for the year 1900. Ottawa, 1901. -COLEMAN, A. P. Marine and Freshwater Beaches of Ontario. [Bull. of the Geol. Soc. of Am., Vol. XII, pp. 129-146.] Rochester, March 1901. -Congrès Géologique International (8th Session) Tenu à paris du 16 Aout, 1900. Proces-Verbaux des Séances. Ministère du Commerce de L'industrie, des Postes et des Télegraphes. Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900. Direction Générale de L'Exploitation. Paris, 1901. --CRAGIN, F. W. A Study of some Teleosts from the Russell Substage of the Platte Cretaceous Series. [Reprinted from Colorado College Studies, Vol. IX.] Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 1901. -DAVIS, W. M. An Excursion to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. XXXVIII. Geological Series, Vol. V, No. 4.] With two plates. Cambridge, Mass., May 1901. -Edinburgh Geological Society, Transactions of the. Vol. VIII, Part I. Edinburgh and London, 1901. -ELLS, R. W. Ancient Channels of the Ottawa River. [Reprinted from the Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 17-30, April 1901, Ottawa, Canada.] The Physical Features and Geology of the Paleozoic Basin between the Lower Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers. [From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Second Series, 1900-1. Vol. VI. Section IV, Geological and Biological Sciences.] Ottawa and Toronto, Canada, and London, England. -Gannett, HENRY, Profiles of Rivers in the United States. [Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey, No. 44.] Washington, 1901. -GRABEAU, AMADEUS W. Lake Bouvé. An Extinct Glacial Lake in the Boston Basin. [From the Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. IV, Part III.] Author's edition, issued July 1900. Boston. -HALE, GEORGE E. Changes in the Spectrum of Nova Persei. The Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, Bulletin No. 17. The University of Chicago Press, 1901. -HAY, O. P. The Chronological Distribution of the Elasmobranchs. [Reprinted from Transactions of Amer. Philos. Soc., Vol. XX.] -Indiana: Department of Geology and Natural Resources. Twenty-fifth Annual Report, 1900. W. S. Blatchley, State Geologist. Indianapolis, Ind., 1901. -KEYES, CHARLES R. A Depositional Measure of Unconformity. [Bull. of the Geol. Soc. of Am., Vol. XII, pp. 173–196, plate 19]. Rochester, 1901. -KÜMMEL, HENKY B., AND STUART Weller, Paleozoic Limestones of Kittatinny Valley, New Jersey. [Bull. of the Geol. Soc. of Am., Vol. XII, pp. 147–164.] Rochester, April 1901. —LAMBE, LAWRENCE M. Contributions to Canadian Palæontology, Vol. IV (Geological Survey of Canada). Part II. A Revision of the Genera and Species of Canadian Paleozoic Corals; the Madreporaria Aporosa and the Madreporaria Rugosa. Ottawa, 1901. Notes on a Turtle from the Cretaceous Rocks of Alberta. [Reprinted from the Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XV, No. 3, pp. 63-67, June 1901, Ottawa, Canada.] -MARSH, C. DWIGHT. The Plankton of Fresh Water Lakes. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XIII.] -Maryland and Its Natural Resources. Prepared by the Maryland Geological Survey, William Bullock Clark, State Geologist. [Official Publication of the Maryland Commissioners Pan-American Exposition.] Baltimore, 1901. -Maryland Geological Survey. Eocene. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1901. -MATTHES, FRANCOIS E. Glacial Structure of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. [Extract from the Twenty-first Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1899-1900: Part II-General Geology, Economic Geology, Alaska.] Washington, 1900. -MERRIAM, JOHN C. A Contribution to the Geology of the John Day Basin. [Bulletin of the Department of Geology, University of California, Vol. II, No. 9, pp. 269-314.] Berkeley, April 1901. -MERZBACHer, Gottfried. Aus den Hochregionen des Kaukasus (2 volumes). Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1901. --New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the. Vol. XIII, Parts II and III. Editor, Charles Lane Poor; acting editor, Theodore G. White. Published by the Academy. -Ohio, The Preglacial Drainage of. Comprising the Results of Researches made by Members of the Academy of Science, by the Aid of the McMillin Research Fund. (Ohio State Academy of Science, Special Papers No. 3.) Papers by W. G. Tight, J. A. Bownocker, J. H. Todd, M.D., and Gerard Fowke. —OLDHAM, R. D. Origin of the Dunmail Raise (Lake District). [Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. LVII, May 1901, pp. 189-197.] The Great Earthquake of June 12, 1897. [Estratto dal Boll. della Soc. -Philosophical Society of Washington, Bulletin of the. Vol. XIII, 1895– 1899. Washington, 1900. -PRATHER, JOHN K. On the Fossils of the Texas Cretaceous, especially those Collected at Austin and Waco. [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science, Vol. IV, Part I, 1900.] —Prosser, CHARLES S. The Classification of the Waverly Series of Central Ohio. [Reprinted from the JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, Vol. IX, No. 3, April-May 1901.] The University of Chicago Press. -RABOT, CLARLES. Le conflit chilo-argentin et les phénoménes de capture dans la Cordillère des Andes. [La Géographie Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. Extrait du No. 4, April 1901.] -RATHBUN, RICHARD. Report upon the Condition and Progress of the U. S. National Museum during the Year ending June 30, 1899. [From the report of the U. S. National Museum for 1899, pp. 1-152.] Washington, 1901. -REED, F. R. COWPER. The Geological History of the Rivers of East Yorkshire. (Being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for the year 1900.) C. J. Clay & Sons, Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1901. —RIES, HEINRICH. Clays and Clay Products at the Paris Exposition of 1900. [Extract from the Twenty-first Annual Report of the U. s. Geological Survey, 1899-1900; Part VI (continued) Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1899: David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining and Mineral Resources.] Washington: 1901. -SHATTUCK, GEORGE BURBANK. The Pleistocene Problem of the North Atlantic Coastal Plain. [From the Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 152, May 1901.] -Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year ending June 30, 1899. Washington, 1901. -South Australia, Record of the Mines of. Report on Geological Exploration of the Tarcoola District, with Plan. H. Y. L. Brown, Government Geologist. Adelaide, 1901. -The State of Progress of our Knowledge of the Tides. By L. P. Shidy. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Vol. XIV, pp. 117-127. [Being a portion of the Report of the Committee on Physical Science for 1900.] Washington, March 1901. -The Tendency of Methods for the Measurement of the Force of Gravity on the Ocean. By G. W. Littlehales. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Vol. XIV, pp. 135-137. [A part of the Report of the Committee on Physical Science for 1900.] Washington, March 1901. -United States Department of Agriculture: Division of Soils. List of Soil Types established by the Division of Soils in 1899 and 1900, with brief description. -United States Department of Agriculture, Yearbook of the, 1900, Washington, 1901. --VAN DEN BROECK, ERNEST. Le Dossier Hydrologique du Régime Aquifere en Terrains Calcaires et le Rôle de la Géologie Dans Les Recherches et Études des Travaux d'Eaux Alimentaires. Brussels, April 1901. -VOGT, J. H. L. Söndre Helgeland. No. 29, Norges Geologiske Undersögelse. Kristiania, 1900. |