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HiNDE, George Jennings. Hystricriuus, Hiude versus Arthroacan- 

 tlia, Williams; a Question of Nomcuclature. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., pp. 271-289, March, ISSG.) 



Defends the use of bisterm Hijsiricrinus autl considers Arthroacantha , Williams, 

 as a synouym of it. 



HiNDE, George Jennings. Eeport on the Invertebrata of the Lar- 

 amie and Cretaceous Rocks of the Northwest Territory. Contribu- 

 tions to Canadian Paleontology, by J. F. Whiteaves. Vol. i, pt. 1, 

 8vo., pp. 89, and G plates; Montreal, Dawson Bros., 1885, (Geol. 

 Mag., new ser., Decade iii, vol. ii[, p. 129, March, 188G. London.) 



Review and abstract of. 



HiNDE, George Jennings. Bulletins of the United States Geological 

 Survey, ISTos. 1-19; Government Printing Oflice, Washington, 1881- 

 ^S5. (Geol. Mag., new ser., Decade iii, vol. iii, pp. 172, 173, April, 

 188C. London.) 



Mentions tbe following on paleontologic matters : " On Mesozoic Fossils," by 

 Dr. C. A. White, who also contributes papers "On tbe Mesczoic and 

 Ceuozoic Paheontology cf California," and "On Marino Eocene, Freshwa- 

 ter Miocene, and other Fossil Mollnsca of Western North America; "On 

 the fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian along tbe Meridian of 76, 30," by 

 Prof. II. S. Williams; " On the Cambrian Faunas of North America," by 

 C. D. Walcott; "On tho Quaternary and Recent Mollusca of the Great 

 Basin," by R. E. Call ; and " On tho higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario 

 County, New York," by J. M. Clarke. 



Hinde, George Jennings. Emmons's Original Taconic Series. 



I. On Lower Silurian Fossils from a Limestone of the Original Taconic of Em- 



mons, by J. D. Dana. 



II. rrelimiuary Report of S. W. Ford and W. 13. Dwigbtnpon Fossils obtained 

 in 1885 from Metamorpbic Limestones of tho Taconic Series of Emmons, 

 at Canaan, New York. Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. xxxi,. pp. 241-253, pi. vii, 

 April, 1886. (Geol. Mag., new ser.. Decade iii, vol. in, pp. 277, June, 

 1886. London.) 



Notices and brief abstracts of these memoirs. 



HoLLicK (Arthur). Eemarks on some fossil leaves from Kieischer- 

 ville and Kew Jersey. (Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc, Staten Island, Febru- 

 ary 13, 188G. New Brighton.) 



The examination of these fossils confirms the fact that the Kreischerville beds 

 are but the extension of those at Woodbridge and Amboy and were con- 

 tinuous with them until cut through in comparatively recent times by the 

 channel of the Kills. (Cretaceous age.) 



Hyatt, Alpiieus. Larval Theory of the Origin of Tissue. (Araer. 

 Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. xxxi, pp. 332-317, May, 1S8G. New Haven.) 



Abstract of a pa])cr with the same title published in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. XXIII, 1884, pp. 45-163, and has in addition tho suggestion that Volvox 

 and Eudor'ina are true intermediate forms entitled to be called Mesozoa, or 

 Blast rea. (See last year's record.) 



Hyatt, Alpiieus. Larval Theory of the Origin of Tissue. (Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., vol. xviii, pp. 193-209, September, 1886. 

 London.) 



