284 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1886. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. IsTotice of Geological luvestigatious 

 iiloug the Eastern Siiore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. 

 II. M. Seely and President Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, 

 M'itli descriptions of the new Fossils discovered, by R. P. Whitfield. 

 (Bull. Aoier. Miis. Nat. Hist., vol. i, pp. 293-345, pis. xxiv-xxxiv, 

 December, 1886. New York.) 



Describes a group of fossils from the lake shore a few miles from Vergennes, 

 Vermont, in a bed referred to the Birdseye limestone, which has yielded so 

 far five Brachiopods, sixteen Gasteropods, twelve Cephalopods and one 

 variety ; two Trilobites and two bivalve Crustaceans ; thirty-seven species 

 and one variety, all in a recognizable condition, and are here illustrated ; 

 all but five of these are new to science. The following are their names: 

 Streptorhynchus^ primordiale, Triplegia lateralis, Tryblidinm ovale, T. oratum, 

 T. conicum, Clisospira lirata, Euomplialus circumliratus, Raphisloma com- 

 jiressum, Holopea Cassina, Lophospira Cassina, EccuUomplialus vuhitatiis, 

 Calaurops lituiformis, Murchisonial prava, Stihulites olesus, BeJhrophon 

 Cassiucnsis, Orthoctras Brainerdl, 0. cornn-orijx, Goniphoceras minimum, 

 G. Cassineiise, Filoctras explanator, Cijrtocercis Boycii, C. acinaceUum, C. con- 

 fertissimum-, Nautilus Eelloggi, Xauiilusl Champlainensis, Lituites Seelyi, L. 

 Eatoni, L. inter nostriatus, Sao ? Lamotttnsis, Bathyiims ? Seelyi, Lichas Cham- 

 plainensis, Blheiria compressa, E. ventricosa. 



The new genera described in the iireceding list are as follows: Under Gas- 

 teropoda Lophospira, and Calaurops* 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Notice of Geological Investigations 

 along tlie Eastern Shore of Lake Chamijlaiu, made hj Prof. H. M. Seely 

 and President Ezra Brainerd. (Amer. Nat., vol. xx, pp. 1041-1043, 

 December, 1880. Philadelphia.) 



Abstract of a paper announcing the discovery of quite an extensive new fauna 

 in limestones, apparently of the ago of the Birdseye limestone of the New 

 York series, near the moiith of the Otter Creek, Lake Champlain, which is 

 of much interest owing to the fact that only about fifteen species of fossils 

 have hitherto been known from the formation. The new forms described 

 in the paper from this one bed are fifteen in number, comprising one Brach- 

 iopod, six Gasteropods, and nine Cephalopods. One of the Gasteropods 

 has given reasons for the establishment of a new geuus Lophospira, with 

 Murchisonia iicincia Hall, and M. hellcteres Salter as the types. Subse- 

 quent collections made at the same locality give a total of forty recognized 

 species in a condition suitable for description and illustration, of which 

 the new ones are shortly to appear in a bulletin of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Notice of a new fossil body, probably a 

 sponge related to Dictyophytou. (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 I, pp. 346-348, December, 1886. New York.) 



Describes a new genus and two new species from the slates at Kenwood near 

 Albany, New York. The author names the new geuus EhombodictyonA 

 Under this he describes Rhomhodlciyon reniforme, and B. discum. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. {See Davis, W. M. ; White, Charles A.) 



* KaTialipo^p, a shepherd's crook or staff. 



t "In reference to the rhombic character of the species formed by the ditferent sets 

 of rods forming the network of their substance." 



