7.14 SCIENTIFIC RECOED FOR 1885. 



Aldrich, T. H. — Observations upon the Tertiary of Alabama. Amer. 

 Jour. 8cL, 3d ser., vol. xxx, pp. 300-308. October, 1885. New 

 Haven. 



The results of a personal examination of the Tertiary of Alabama 

 are given so far as is necessary to reply to Dr. Meyer's papers ; his 

 quotations and views are also criticised and corrected, (^ee Meyer, 

 Otto.) 



Ami, H. M. — List of Fossils from Ottawa and Vicinity. Ottawa Field 

 Naturalists' Club Trans., No. 5, vol. ii, No. i, pp. 54-62. 1884. Ottawa. 



Gives lists of fossils from the following formations : Cambro-Silurian 

 system, Chazy formation, Bii'd's Eye and Black River formation, Tren- 

 ton formation, Utica formation, — Post-Tertiary, Leda clay, and Saxi- 

 cava sand, alluvium (shell marl deposit). 



Am, H. M. — Additional Notes on the Geology and Palieoutology of Ot- 

 tawa and Vicinity. Ottawa Field Naturalists^ Club Trans., No. 6, vol. 

 II, No. ii, pp. 251-259. 1885. Ottawa. 



Anon. — The Oldest Air-breathers. Pop. Sci. Monthly, vol. xxvii, pp. 

 395-400, figs. 1-5, and pp. 397, 399, and 400. July, 1885. New York. 



An account of the oldest fossil insects; the facts and illustrations are 

 borrowed from the French and English scientitic journals. 



Anon. — Proceedings of the section of Geology and Geography. Science, 

 vol. VI, No. 136, p. 220. 1885. Cambridge. 



Science's report of the proceedings of the meeting of the A. A. A. S. 

 at Ann Arbor. 



Three discoveries of fossils were announced. Prof. N. H. Winchell 

 brought from the pipe-stone quarry of Minnesota a contorted trilobite of 

 the Paradoxides type and slabs of sandstone covered with round phos- 

 phatic brachiopods referred provisionally to Lingula. Prof. W. B. 

 Dwight reported the discovery of a unique Potsdam locality one mile 

 northwest of Vassar College and in the Wappinger limestone belt. 

 Prof. J. D. Dana exhibited Silurian fossils taken at Canaan, N. Y., from 

 the sparry limestone of Emmons, a member of his original Taconic sys- 

 tem as first defined by him in 1842. Prof. James Hall said that the 

 existence of Silurian fossils in these rocks was claimed and admitted 

 forty years ago, and Prof. N. H. Winchell argued that Emmous's later 

 use of the title "Taconic," in which he applied it to certain rocks in 

 New York, now known to be pre-Silurian, entitled the name to a place 

 in stratigraphic nomenclature. 



Bain, Francis, and Dawson, J. W. (Sir). — Notes on the Geology and 

 Fossil Flora of Prince Edward Island. Canadian Rec. Sci., vol. i 

 (1884-'85), pp. 154-161, figs. 1 and 2, on pp. 160 and 161. 1885. 

 Montreal. 



