OF THE SERGIPE-ALAGUAS BASIN OP BItAZIL. '127 



AoASsiz, Prop. Louis.— Com'es Rentlus de VAcadamie Francsiis, Vol. XVIII, p. 1007. 



Letter from Louis Af^assiz to Elie de Beaumont describing the fossil fishes 

 from Cearu. Seven species are mentioned by him, and he aflirms his beHef in the 

 cretaceous age of the Ceara rocks. 



Allen, J. A. — Notes on the Geological Character of the Country between ChiqueChique, on the Uio de Sao Francisco 

 and Bahia, BraEil, by J. A. Allen. In Hartfs Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil, pp. 309-318. 



A brief but very important contribution to the geology of Eastern Brazil. The 

 author does not attempt to give the horizons of the geological formations found upon 

 his ti-ip, but his descriptions enable one acquainted with the geology of the country to 

 assign them to their various equivalents along the coast. 



Allpout, S. — On the Discovery of Some Fossil Remains near Bahia in South America. Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, Lon- 

 don, Vol. XVI, Pt. Ill, pp. 2G3-208. 



The article is illustrated, and, besides a brief description of the eastern portion of 

 the Bahia basin about Montserrate and Plataforma, is accompanied by notes on the 

 fossils by John Morris and Prof. T. Kupert Jones. The vertebrate remains described 

 by Mr. Allport are figured in four plates. 



Anontmocs.— Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1866-7, pp. 270-3. 



Agassiz's Lowell Institute lectures are quoted as to the glacial origin of the ter- 

 tiary of the Amazon. 



AsosT.Mons.— Annual of Scientific Discovery for 1871, pp. 24fr-7. 



These notes appear to have been taken from Prof Hartt's writings. It is stated 

 that the cretaceous beds probably underlie the tertiary of the whole Amazon Valley. 



Bates, Henuy Walter.— Tlie Naturalist on the Amazons, by Ilcnry Walter Bates. 4th ed., London, 1875. 



A few notes are given in this work concerning the table-toi)ped hills of Almey- 

 rim and the serras north of that point, and upon the parti-colored cliffs about Obidos. 



Brown, C. BAnRiNOTON. — Tertiary Deposit of the Soliniuos and Javary Rivers in Brazil, by C. Uiirringlon Brown, with 

 an Appendix by R, Etheridge. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, February, 1879. 



Reference is made to the old loess-like river deposits, and several sections of the 

 tertiary are given. N^oting that the tertiary had already been traced from Loreto, 

 Peru, to Tabatinga, the author says that he has not seen this terrane further east than 

 Sao Paulo, 150 miles below Tabatinga and 1.'350 miles from the mouth of the Ama- 

 zon. It is suggested that the tertiary beds have been disturbed. They are said to 

 occupy here an area of 300 miles in length by ^O in breadth, and contain both fresh 

 and brackish water shells. 



