2^8 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1886. 



Panton, J. Hayes. Gleaniugs from the Geology of the Red River 

 Valley. (Manitoba Hist, and 8ci. Soc, Winnipeg. Transactions, No. 

 3, pp.* 1-10, 188.3. WiTinipeg.) 



Fossils nf the Silurian age arii talked al>out on pp. :> and 4. 



PoHLMAN, Julius. Fossils from the Waterlime Group near Buffalo, 

 New York. (Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. v, p)). 23-32, pi. ill, 1880. 

 Buffalo.) 



Describes rieryijotus BiiffaloeDnin Pohlm. ; /'. hf/oftx.s Hnxley & Salter ; Cera- 

 tiocaris acnminatus Hall ; and states that hereafter Ensarcus scorpionis 

 shonld be known as Enrypterus soorpioms Grotte & Pitt. 



Powell, J. W, Fifth Annual Report of the United States Geologi(3al 

 Survey, 1883-'84. 4to, pp. 1-4G9, plates 1-58, and 143 figures. Wash- 

 ington, Government Printing Office, 1885. (Geol. Mag., new ser., 

 Decade iii, vol. iii, pp. 4G1-405, October, 1886. London.) 



Notice of contents: "The Gigantic M.inunalsof the Order Dinocerata," by O. C. 

 Marsh, and Sketch of Paleobotany, by Lester F. Ward. 



Pratt, W. H. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences, 

 vol. IV, 1822-1884. Davenport, (?) Iowa, pp. 3.58, with six plates. 

 Price, paper, $4. (Pop. Sci. Monthly, vol. xxix, pp. 706, 707, Sep- 

 tember, 1886. New York.) 



Notice of contents of. The paleontologic memoirs in it were noticed in last year's 

 review. 



Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sdiences. Vol. iv, 

 1882-'84. Davenport, Iowa, 1886, pp.348. (Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., 

 vol. XXXII, p. 82, July, 1886. New Haven.) 



Notice of contents. It contains a paper on a new genus and species of Blastoid, 

 by C. Wachsmuth ; and on a nevr species of Blastoids, by W. IT. Barris, 

 with two excellent plates. 



These papers were noticed in last year's review. 



Putnam, F. W. Discovery of Mastodon Skull at Shrewsbury. (Proc. 

 Bostou Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. xxiii, p. 242, June, 1886. Boston.) 



Mr. F. W. Putnam referred to the discovery of the mastodon skull at Shrews- 

 bury a year ago, and described the continuation of the exploration of the 

 peat deposit this autumn by the Worcester Society of Natural History, 

 when a human skull was found. As stated to him by Dr. Raymenton, who 

 took out the human skull, both skulls lay on the blue clay bottom of an 

 ancient pond and were covered with from 6 to 8 feet of peat formation. 



Rauff, H. On the Genus Hindia, Dune. (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 5th ser., vol. xviii, pp. 169, 179, figs. 1-4, September, 1886. Lomlon.) 

 The author concludes that Hindia fibrosa is no doubtful form, not belonging at 

 all to the sponges, as Professor Steiumaun thought lie was obliged to as- 

 sume, but a well-characterized, true tetracladiue siliceous sponge. 



Reid, Clement. {See Lamplugh, G. W.) 



RiNGUEBERG, EuGENE, N. S. New Genera and Species of Fossils 



from the Niagara Shales. (Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. v, pp. 



1-22, pis. I, II, 1886. Buffalo.) 



Squamaster, n. geu., S. echinatus, Frolasla sl.eUifer, Eiujaster concinntis, Leeaiio- 

 eriiiui solidan, L. nilidm, L. incinns, L. exaa»atus, L. piiteolus, Plaljiorinus 



