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containing descriptions of several new species, but nothing of 

 special interest. The Palaeontographical Society has issued (up 

 to the close of 1907) two more contributions to the history 

 of the British fish-fauna, namely the third part of Dr. Smith 

 Woodward's Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk, and the first part 

 of A Synopsis of the Carboniferous Ganoids. In the former the 

 author treats of the great carnivorous " barracudas," like Portheus 

 and Flops, among which he describes the new genus and species 

 Dinelops ornatns from Kent and Surrey. 



As regards other additions to the British fossil fish-fauna, 

 Mr. J. F. Jackson (Geol. Mag., decade 5, vol. v. p. 309) has 

 recorded the occurrence of several well-known Carboniferous 

 species from a limestone-quarry near Sparrowpit, in North 

 Derbyshire. Remains of a representative of the American 

 bowfins (Amia) have been described by Mr. M. Leriche (Bull. 

 Soc. Beige Geol., vol. xxii. p. 121) from the Hempstead beds of the 

 Isle of Wight. Last year Mr. Leriche identified remains of a 

 bowfin (Amia eocena) from the Lower Eocene of Suffolk, which 

 had been regarded as lacertian ; while the genus is also known 

 from the Upper Eocene of Hampshire, as well as from the 

 Osborne and Bembridge group of the Isle of Wight. 



Reverting to papers of a faunistic type, Mr. Leriche, in a 

 pamphlet issued by the University of Lyons, records a number 

 of well-known species from the Nummulitic formation of Aude 

 (Corbieres Septentrionales). Fish-remains from the Upper Creta- 

 ceous of Hasseinabad (Poucht-i-Kouk), Persia, are described by 

 Mr. F. Priem in a volume entitled Annates publie'es sous la direction 

 de J. de Morgan, at Paris. The specimens forming the subject 

 of the memoir were collected by Mr. de Morgan during a recent 

 expedition to this part of Persia. 



In Mem. Geol. Surv. New S. Wales, Paleeont. No. 10, Dr. 

 Smith Woodward has described fish-remains from two horizons 

 of the Hawkesbury beds of St. Peter's. Most of the species 

 belong to European genera, and indicate a Permo-carboniferous 

 age for the formation. The new genus Elpisopholis proves 

 intimate relationship between the Paloeoniscida? and the Belo- 

 norhynchida:, indications of which were previously afforded by 

 a species of Belonorhynchus from the Hawkesbury beds of 

 Gosford. 



In systematic work reference may be made to a paper by 

 Mr. C. Fraipont, published in the Ann. Soc. Geol. Beige, vol. xxxv., 



