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the series of deposits of the maritime provinces of eastern North Amer- 

 ica much more closely corresponding with those of western Europe than 

 with those of the interior of the American continent. 



PROTOZOA AND SPONGES. 



Sir William Dawson and George Jennings Flinde (72) describe some 

 new species of fossil sponges from Little Metis, Province of Quebec 

 Canada. The following new species are proposed : 



Protospongia tetranema, Dawson, p. 52-53, f. 1, and farther doacribed and dis- 

 cussed by Hinde, pp. 63-65. 

 Hi/aloslelia metissica, Dawson, p. 54, and Hindu's comruents, p. 65. 

 Cyatlwpbycus qtiebeveusi , Dawson, p. 54, Hiude's comments, pp. 65-67. 

 Buthotrvphis pergracilis, Dawson, p. 55. 



G. J. Hinde (114:) discusses the spicules and structure of Archmocya- 

 t1ms minganensis. The author concludes that the sponge spicules found 

 in association with this fossil are not part of its structure, and that the 

 so-called "branching spicnla" are siliceous replacements of the tissue 

 of its outer wall; but he does not conclude that the ArcJueocijathus is 

 allied to the siliceous sponges. He is of the opinion that the fossil was 

 originally calcareous. 



C D. Walcott (L'59) explains and defends his reference of Archceocija- 

 thus prof undus of Billings lo Meek's genus Ethmophyllum, as proposed 

 in his recent publication, Thirtieth Bulletin of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Joseph F. James (123) discusses the Protozoa of the Cincinnati group. 



George J. Hinde (111) considers the species Hindia fibrosa of Roemer 

 to be identical with Astylospongia inornata^ Hall, 18;J3, and that the 

 genera Hindia and Astylospongia are closely allied. 



P. M. Duncan (74) makes a critical reply defending his establishment 

 of the genus Hindia., claiming that Roemer was ignorant of the char- 

 acters which indicate the relationship of his species to the sponges. 



Anthony Woodward (307) published a sui)plement to his "Bibli- 

 ography of the Foraminifera" (Fourteenth Annual Report of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Minnesota, pages 1G7-311) in the Journal of the New 

 York Microscopical Society, January, 1888. The imperfections of this 

 work called forth the severe criticism of Mr. Charles D. Sherborn (Na- 

 ture, vol. 37, pp. 583-584, 1888), who published in London an exhaustive 

 treatise (238) on the " Bibliography of the Foraminifera, recent and fos- 

 sil, from 1565 to 1888." 



James Hall (94) gives some interesting statistics in regard to the 

 Dictyospongida'. They are recorded as ranging geologically from the 

 Utica slate to the Sub-carboniferous, and geographically are reported 

 from the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. A 

 list of forty species is given and a map of Steuben County on which are 

 marked the localities where Dictyophyton has been found. 

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