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Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics, mainly during the fiscal year 1887-88

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Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Report on astronomical work of 1889 and 1890

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Robert Simpson Woodward

Results of a biological survey of the San Francisco Mountain Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona

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Clinton Hart Merriam, Leonhard Steineger

Tenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 1: 1888-1889

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J. W. Powell

Tenth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 2: 1888-1889

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J. W. Powell

The gabbros and associated rocks in Delaware

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Frederick Dixon Chester

The glacial boundary in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois

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G. Frederick Wright, Thomas C. Chamberlin

The greenstone schist areas of the Menominee and Marquette regions of Michigan, a contribution to the subject of dynamic metamorphism in eruptive rocks

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George Huntington Williams, Roland Duer Irving

The molecular stability of metals, particularly of iron and steel

(1) ALLOW me to add some words relative to the very timely lecture on the hardening and tempering of steel, recently published by Prof. Roberts-Austen (NATURE, xli. pp. 11, 42). I desire, in the first place, to point out the bearing of the singular minimum of the viscosity of hot iron (loc. cit., p. 34) on the interpretation given of Maxwell's theory of viscosity (Phil. Mag. (5), xxvi. pp. 183, 39
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C. Barus

The relations of the traps of the Newark system in the New Jersey region

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Nelson Horatio Darton

Volume XIII: The tertiary insects of North America

That creatures so minute and fragile as insects, creatures which can so feebly withstand the changing seasons as to live, so to speak, but a moment, are to be found fossil, engraved, as it were, upon the rocks or embedded in their hard mass, will never cease to be a surprise to those unfamiliar with the fact. "So fragile," says Quinet, "so easy to crush, you would readily believe the insect one of
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Samuel H. Scudder

III.-The Work of Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis in Glacial Geology

The recent notice of the life and work of Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, whose lamented death occurred in Manchester, July 21st, 1888, in his thirty-fifth year, well indicates the wide range of his scientific labours. He published valuable results of investigations in astronomy, mineralogy and petrology, and especially in glacial geology, the last being based on his exploration of the drift and its te
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Warren Upham