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37. 



White, C. A. Woodpeckers Tapping Sugar Trees. <^American Naturalist, vol. vii, 

 p. 496. Salem, 1873. 



Woodpeckers were observed to peck holes in the bark of young and sound sugar maples, 

 evidently to get the sap. 



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White, C. A. KjoekkenmoedcUngs do I'Am^rique du uord. <^Congre8 luteruatioual 

 d'Anthropologie et d'Archdologie. Pr6hi.storiques ; Compte rendu de la ciuqui- 

 eme session a Bologne, 1871. pp. 379-389. Bologna (Italy), 1873. 

 Same. Bologna (Italy), 1873. 8vo, pp. 1.^). Thirty separates i)riuted with title-page 

 and repaging. 



This paper embraces a general review of the subject of shell heaps in North America as 

 known up to that date. 



39. 



White, C. A. On Spontaneous fission? in Zaphrentis. <^Amer. Jour. Sc, 3d ser., 

 vol. v., p. 72. New Haven, 1873. 



A specimen oi Zaphrentis epinulifera, Hall is described, wliich seemed to be a case of sponta- 

 neous fi.ssion. The author now thinks it probable that it was tlie result of a twin polyp, or 

 that the fission took place at a very early stage in the formation of the corallite 



40. 



White, C. A. On the Eastern Limit of Cretaceous Deposits in Iowa. <Proc. Amer. 

 Ass. Adv. Sci. ? 2l8t meeting (Dubuque), 1872, vol. xxi, i)p. 187-192. Cambridge, 

 1873. 



Same. Cambridge, 1873. 8vo. pp. 187-192. Fifty separates printed without title- 

 page, covers, or repaging. 



The discovery is announced of Cretaceous fossils in the drift or glacier-di.sturbed Cretaceous 

 deposits in Howard, Black Hawk, and Johnson Counties, Iowa; showing that tlie Cretaceous 

 deposits once extended as far eastward as East.eni Iowa and Southeastern Minnesota. 



41. 



White, C. A. The proposed genus Anomalodonta of Miller identical with the earlier 

 Megaptera of Meek. <Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. viii, pp. 218-219. New 

 Haven, 1874. 



Meek's claim to priority is defended against that of Miller. The note bears onlj' the initials 

 of the author, " C. A. W." 



42. 



White, C. A. Artificial Shell-heaps of Fresh-water Mollusks. <^Proc. Amer. Ass. 



Adv. Sci., 22d meeting, Portland, 1873, pp. 133-137. Salem, 1874. 

 Same. Salem, 1874. 8vo. pp. 133-137. F'ifty separates printed without title-page, 



covers, or repagiug. 



It is herein shown that the fresh-water mollusks were extensively used as food by the ab 

 original inhabitants. 



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White, C. A. Preliminary Report upon Inveitebrate Fossils collected by the Expe- 

 ditions of 1871, 1872, and 1873, with Descriptions of New Species. <Engineer 

 Department, U. S. Army. Geographical and Geological T^xploratious and Suryevs 

 west of the 100th meridian. First Lieut. George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, 

 in charge, pp. 1-27. Washington, 1874. 



Thirty-nine species are described as new, and five others are noticed. They are all rede- 

 scribed and figured in part i, vol. iv. Report upon Geographical and Geological Explorations and 

 Surveys West of the 100th Meridian. See entry No. 48 Anehura miptiaUs is a Cretaceous spe- 

 cies, and herein wrongly referred to the Jurassic. 



