NORTH AMERICAN PALAEONTOLOGY. 283 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Professor Thorell and the Americau Si- 

 lurian Scorpion. (Science, vol. vii, No. 161, pp. 216, 217, March, 

 1SS6. New York.) 



Au answer to Professor Thorell's criticism in the American Naturalist, March, 

 1886, p. 269. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of 

 the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey. (Mono- 

 graphs of the U. S. Geological Survey, vol. ix, pp. i-xx and 1-2G4, 

 l)ls. i-xxxv. Washington, 1885.) Same. (Geological Survey of 

 New Jersey ; George H. Cook, State geologist, 1886. Trenton, N. J.) 



The report, besides coutaiuinj^ all the species hitherto described and published, 

 contains the following uew ones: 



Section ii. Lamellibrauchiate Shells from the Plastic Clay: Amhonicardia 

 Cookii, Coriicula ? emacei-ata, Gnalhodon ? tenuidens. Section iii. La- 

 mellibranchiata from the Lower Marl Beds: Pectcn planicostatus, Amusium 

 Coiiradi, Campion ectes parvus, Mi/filus oblivius, Modiola Uurlingtonensis, 

 Fteria naricula, GerviUiopsis viinima, Inoceramus jiro-obUqiius, Cibota obesa, 

 Axinea alia, Kucula inonmouihensis, Nuculana Gabbana, TrUjoma Mortovi, T. 

 cerulia, Gotihlia Coniadi, Lucina Smockaiia, Diceras dactt/loidts, Cardium 

 (Protocardium) pereloiKjatum, Pachycardium Burlinglonense, Fiilvia tenuis, 

 Fra()um teiiniiitriaium, Leiopistha inflata, Sphwxolia nmbonata, Cyprimeria 

 Heilprini, Dosiiiia Gabbi, D. ? erecta, Linearia contracta, Corimya tenuis, 

 Veleda Tellinoides, V. transversa, Pholadomya Roemeri, Pholas ? lata. Sec- 

 tion iv. Lamellibranchiata from the Middle Beds: Gryphwa Bryant var. 

 precedens, Modiola (Lifhodomus^) inflata, Idonearca medians, I. compressi- 

 rostra. Section v. Lamellibranchiata from the lower layers of the Upper 

 Marl Beds of New Jersey: Otstrea glandiformis, Modiola Johnsoni, Cardita 

 intermedia, Crassatella Conradi, C. rhombea, Criocardium nucleolus, Petricola 

 Nova--E()yptica, Valeda nasuta, Caryatis ? vela, Panopca elliptica, Peri- 

 plomya truncafa. Section vi. Lamellibranchiata from the Eocene Marls of 

 New Jersey: Ostrea glauconoides, O. {Alectrionia^) linguafeJis, Pecten Rigbyi, 

 Nucula Circe, Nucularia secunda, Axinea Conradi, Astarte castanclla, A.plani- 

 marginata, Cardita Brittoni, Cransatella obliquata, Caryatis oralis, Velida 

 equilatera, Corbula {Neccra) nasutoides, Nccera a'quivalvis, Parapliolas Eneis- 

 kerni, Teredo emacerata. Section vii. IJniouidte from the clays at Fish 

 House, Camden County : Unio prwanodontoides, U. rectoides. 



The uew genera which appear in the above lists are the following : Aniboni- 

 cardia, Meleagrinella, and GerviUiopsis. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of 

 the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey. Vol. i, 270 

 pages, 4to., with thirty-five lithographic plates of fossils and a colored 

 geological map of part of the State. (Geological Survey of New 

 Jersey, Trenton, 1886.) (Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. xxxii, pp. 

 324-325, October, 1886. New Haven.) 



Review of. This book was first published as Monograph of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, vol. ix, Washington, 1H85. 



Whitfied, Robert Parr. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of 

 the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey. Washing- 

 ton, Government, 1885, 4to. (Science, vol. viii, No. 196, p. 422, 

 November, 1886. New York.) 

 Review of, and abstract from. 



