728 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1885. 



for not recognizing the generic value of Carinopora and Cryptopora 

 Nicholson. A considerable number of figures have been prepared, but 

 not yet lithographed, to illustrate this paper on the Fenestellidce. These 

 will appear in a future report. 



[Hall, James]. — On the Relations of the Genera Stictopora, Ptilodictya, 

 Acrogeuia, and Allied Forms in the Palaeozoic Rocks of New York. 

 Eep. State Geologist for 1884, p. 46 ; figs. 1-3, p. 46. 1885. ' Albany. 

 To be printed with the next report of the State Geologist. Figures 



1, 2, and 3 are typical forms of Stictopora, Ptilodictya, and Acro<jenia. 



[Hall, James]. — Note (on some Palteozoic Pectenoid Shells). Rep. 



State Geologist for 1884, pp. 47, 48; figs. 1-6, p. 46. 1885. Albany. 



These woodcuts were prepared for the report of the State Geologist 

 for 1882. They were not completed in time for insertion in that report 

 and are introduced in this place with their explanations. Figs. 1 and 



2, Aviculopecten ; figs. 3 and 4, Pterinea jiahella ; fig. 5, Actmopteria de- 

 cussata; and tig. 6, Aviculopecten exacutus. 



Heilprin, Angelo. — Town Geology. The Lesson of the Philadelphia 

 Rocks. Studies of Nature along the Highways and among the By- 

 ways of a Metropolitan Town, pp. 1-142, pis. i-vii. 1.S85. Phil- 

 adelphia. 

 Chapter x is on the fossils of the marl, or life in the Cretaceous ])e- 



riod, containing popular descriptions of the groups ; plates iv and v 



contain figures of the Cretaceous invertebrate fauna. 



Heilprin, Angelo. —The Classification and Palceontology of the U. S. 

 Tertiary Deposits. Science, vol. v, No. 124, pp. 475, 476. June, 1885. 

 Cambridge. 

 A protest against the acceptance of Dr. Otto Meyer's views in his 



" Genealogy of the Speciesof the Older Tertiary Formations," and a warn- 

 ing to palaeontologists not to accept his numerous new species. 



Heilprin, Angelo.— The Classification and Palseontology of the U. S. 



Tertiary Deposits. Science, vol. Yi, No. 130, pp. 83, 84. July, 1885. 



Cambridge. 



Contains further criticisms of Dr. Otto Meyer's paper, and reiterates 

 his warning to geologists and paleontologists against the acceptation of 

 his views. 



HiLGARD, E. W.— The Classification and Palajontology of the U. S. Ter- 

 tiary Deposits. Science, vol. vi, No. 128, p. 44. July, 1885. Cam 

 bridge. 



Note on Dr. Jtto Meyer's paper in the Amer. Jour. ScL, and on Mr. 

 A. Heilprin's notice of it in Science. The author enters a caveat on 

 both sides of the question, sympathizes with Dr. Meyer's views in re- 



