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the affinity between the Tertiary littoral faunas of Patagonia, 

 New Zealand, and Australia, which appear to have inhabited 

 different portions of a single sea-bed. 



An appendix to a previous memoir on fossil sharks is com- 

 municated by Messrs. Jordan and Bell to the Publications of the 

 University of California, Bull. Dep. Geol. vol. vii. pp. 243-56, in 

 which several species are described as new. 



During the last few years a number of papers have been pub- 

 lished on fish-remains from various horizons in different parts 

 of Africa, a list of which is given by Dr. E. Henning in an article 

 on remains of this nature from Equatorial and South Africa 

 issued in the Sitzber. Ges. naturfor. Freunde, 191 3, pp. 305-18. 

 In this communication the bearing of these remains on the 

 physiography and former connections of the African continent is 

 discussed at some length. Of the aforesaid papers, those pub- 

 lished during the year under review include, in addition to the 

 one just cited, the following: The Older Eocene Fishes of 

 Landana, Congo, by Mr. Leriche, Ann. Mus. Congo Beige, Geol. 

 Pal. ser. 3, pp. 69-80 ; a second communication on West African 

 Tertiary fishes by the same author, op. cit. pp. 81-91 ; new Mesozoic 

 vertebrate remains from the Cameruns by Dr. Henning {K. preuss. 

 geol. Landesanstalt, 1913); Tertiary fish-remains from Spanish 

 Guinea, by Dr. C. H. Eastman, Ann. Carnegie Mus. 19 13, pp. 370- 

 78 ; and, lastly, fish-remains from the Karru beds of South 

 Africa, by Dr. Broom, published in the Annals of the S. African 

 Museum, vol. xii. pp. 1-5. Space does not permit of fuller notice 

 of these, but in the case of Dr. Broom's paper it may be men- 

 tioned that five species are described as new, four being referable 

 to the Palaoniscidce and one to the Platysomatidce. The last 

 represents a new generic type, for which the atrocious name 

 Caruichthys is proposed. 



An unusually fine example of the gigantic Portheus molossus, 

 from the Cretaceous of Kansas, recently acquired by the Natural 

 History Branch of the British Museum, forms the subject of a 

 note, accompanied by a plate, contributed by Dr. Smith Wood- 

 ward to the December number of the Geological Magazine 

 (decade 5, vol. x. pp. 529-31). 



Lastly, it may be mentioned that five new American 

 Cretaceous pycnodonts, referable to Microdon (recorded for the 

 first time in America), Ccelodus, and Anomceodus, are described 

 by Mr. Gidley in vol. xlvi. (pp. 445-9) of the Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



