716 SCIENTIFIC KECORD FOR 1885. 



Bkongniakt, Charles. — The Fossil luscets of the Primary Eocks : A 

 llapid Survey of the Eutomological Faima of the Palfeozoic Period. 

 Geol. Mag., New Series, Decade III, vol. ii, pp. 481-491, pi. xii. Novem- 

 ber, 1885. Loiidon. 



Trau slated and read before the Manchester Geological Society, Octo 

 ber G, ]885, by Maik Stirrup, F. Ct. S., Hon. Sec. Eevised and reprinted 

 by jiermission of the author and translator, with a plate from the Bul- 

 letin de la Societe des Amis des Seienees Naturelles de Rouen (ann^e, 

 1885, 1'^'^ semestre). The article contains discussions of the American as 

 well as of the European forms. 



Call, R. E. — On the Quaternary and recent Mollusca of the Great 



Basin, with descriptions of new forms. Introduced by a sketch of 



the Quaternary Lakes of the Great Basin, by G. K. Gilbert. Bull. 



U. 8. Geol. Surv., No. 11, pp. 1-6C, pis. i-vi. 1885. Washington. 



Gives a systematic catalogue of the recent and Quaternary shells 



of the Great Basin, a discussion of their environment and geographic 



and chronologic distribution, and concludes (1) that the recent and tbe 



fossil mollusca are predominantly limnaeid, a biologic expression of cli 



mate; (2) that the fossil fauna is more variable than the recent; in the 



Lahontan area being characteristically limnaeid (represented by Pom- 



pholyx effusa), and in the Bonneville area rissoid (represented hj Amni- 



cola porata and A. cineinnatiensis) ; (3) that increase in salinity finds a 



biologic expression in depauperation, in lessened abundance, and in 



extinction when the waters become briny ; (4) that the oscillations of 



the lakes are coupled with varying abundance, and with varying size of 



shells as a biologic expression of climate. 



Hmnophysa bonnevillensis, from the Bonneville Lake beds, is the only 

 new fossil species described. 



Carpenter, P. H. — Further Remarks upon the Morphology of the 

 Blastoidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th ser., vol. 

 XV, pp. 277-300, tig., p. 293. April, 1885. London. 



An answer to and a criticism of Mr. G. Hambach's article entitled 

 " Contribution to the Anatomy of the Genus Pentremites, with Descrip- 

 tions of New Species." Trans. Saint Louis Acad. Sci., vol. iv, No. i, 

 1881, pp. 145-100, pis. A and B. 



Clarke, J. M. — A Brief Outline of the Geological Succession in Ontario 

 County, New York, to accompany a map. Bep. State Geologist for 

 1884, pp. 9-22. 1885. Albany. . 



Gives lists of fossils occurring in the different Devonian formations. 



Clarke, J. M. — On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County. 

 New York. Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, No, 16, pp. 1-86, pis. i-iii. 1885, 

 Washington. 



