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Barris, W. H.— Continued. 



befoie the Academy, it is published iu such foriu rather than as a more 

 ri.<j;idly strict scieutilic paper. 

 States that iu Mr. Tiffauy's paper there are no less thau one hundred and eighty- 

 five blunders iu the naming of fossils. 



Bakris, W. it. Bad Blunders. Those Committed in the Naming of the 

 Fossils of Scott County iu a Beceut Pamphlet — Barris's Criticisms. 

 (From Davenport Daily Gazette, March 2, 1886.) 



A criticism of a paper hy A. S. Tiffany. 

 Baur, G. XJeber die Kauale im Humerus der Amuioten. (Morpholo- 

 gisches Jahrbuch. Band xii, Heft ii, pp. 299-305, 1880. Leipzig.) 

 I. Canalis entepicondyloideus. ii. Canalis ectepicoudyloideus. ni. Beide 

 Kaniile zugleich. 

 Baur, G. Ueber die Morphogenie der Wirbelsiiule der Amuioten. 

 (Biologisches Centralblatt. Band vi, Nr. 12, pp. 353-363. 15th Au- 

 gust, 1886. Erlangen. 



Baur, G. The Morpliogeny of the Vertebral Column iu the Amuiota. 

 Ueber die Morphogenie der Wirbelsiiule der Amuioten. Biologisches 

 Centralblatt, 15th August, 1880. Amer. Nat., vol. xx, p. 956. No- 

 vember, 1886. Philadelphia. 



Brief revie\y of the article which indorses Cope's view that the iutercentrum iu 

 Archegosaurus is a distinct body, intercalated between the true centra, 

 which he regards as represented by the two pleuroceutra. 



Bishop, J. P. On certain Fossiliferous Limestones of Columbia County, 

 New York, aud their relation to the Hudson Eiver Shales and the 

 Taconic System. (Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser.,vol. xxxii, pp. 438-441. 

 December, 1886. New Haven.) 



Describes a discovery of fossils in a metamorphic limestone on the western bor- 

 der of the Taconic slates, in Columbia County. New York. This lime- 

 stone is divided iuto two arms which appear to blend at KiuderhookLake. 

 The fossiliferous localities are three in number, aud all are in the eastern 

 belt. From the first, situated midway between Chatham aud Ghent, only 

 crinoid stems have been taken. The second is situated at the crossing of 

 the New York and Mahopac Railroad, 2 miles north of Chatham ; and the 

 third a mi'e still farther north, on the farm of Mr. Joel Augell ; and these 

 two have furnished the fossils mentioned. Several well-marked valves of 

 Lejitcena sericea and Strojihomena alternata. The external markiugs of the 

 gasteropods are so effaced by metamorphism and weathering that it is very 

 difficult to distinguish species. There are several species of a slender Alur- 

 chisonla, probably M. gracilis, a single doubtful Machtrea aud specimens of 

 OjMleta iu abundance, one incomplete Orlhoceras, aud a well-preserved new 

 species of the genus Ftilodictya. 



Considers these fossils of Trenton age, and that there can be no reasonable 

 doubt that this limestone containing Trenton fossils immediately underlies 

 the graptolitic shales of the Hudson River group. 



Branco. (Eeview.) O. C. Marsh. Dinocerata. A monograph of an 

 extinct order of gigantic mammals. (U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. x, Wash- 

 ington, 1884. Gross 4to. xviii u. 237 Seiteu, Mit 200 Holzschnitten 

 u. 56 Tafelti. Neu. Jahrb. fiir Min., Geol. u. Pal., 1886. Band i, pp. 

 339-341. Stuttgart.) 

 Abstract. 



