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Barris, '\V. H.— Contiiiueil. 



befoie the Academy, it is published in siicU form rather than as a more 

 rijfjdly strict scientific paper. 

 States that iu Mr. Tiflauy's paper there are uo less than one hundred and eighty- 

 five blunders in the naming of fossils. 



Barkis, W. H. Bad Blaiiders. Those Committed in the Naming of the 

 Fossils of Scott County in a llecent Pamphlet — Barris's Criticisms. 

 (From Davenport Daily Gazette, March 2, 1886.) 



A criticism of a paper by A. S. Tiffany. 

 Baur, G. Ueber die Kaniile im Humerus der Amnioteu. (Morpholo- 

 gisches Jahrbuch. Band xii, Heft ii, pp. 299-305, 1880. Leipzig.) 

 I. Canalis entepicondyloideus. ii. Canalis ectepicondyloideus. in. Beide 

 Kaniile zugleich. 

 Baur, G, Ueber die Morphogenie der WirbelsJiule der Amnioten. 

 (Biologisches Centralblatt. Baud vi, Nr.l2, pp. 353-303. 15th Au- 

 gust, 1880. Erlangen. 



Baur, G. The Morphogeny of the Vertebral Column in the Amuiota. 

 Ueber die Morphogenie der Wirbelsilule der Amnioten. Biologisches 

 Centralblatt, 15th August, 1880. Amer. Nat., vol. xx, p. 950. No- 

 vember, 1880. Philadelphia. 



Brief review of the article which indorses Cope's view that the intercentrnm in 

 Archegosaurus is a distinct body, intercalated between the true centra, 

 which he legarda as represented by the two pleuroceutra. 



Bisnor, J. P. On certain Fossiliferous Limestones of Columbia County, 

 New York, and their relation to the Hudson Kiver Shales and the 

 Taconic System. (Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. xxxii, pp. 438-441. 

 December, 1880. New Haven.) 



Describes a discovery of fossils in a mctamorphic limestone on the western bor- 

 der of the Taconic slates, in Columbia County. New York. This lime- 

 stone is divided into two arms which appear to blend at KinderhookLnke. 

 The fossiliferous localities are three in number, and all are in the eastern 

 belt. From the first, situated midway between Chatham and Ghent, only 

 crinoid stems have been taken. The second is situated at the crossing of 

 the New York and Mahopac Railroad, 2 miles north of Chatham ; and the 

 third a mile still farther north, on the farm of Mr. Joel Angell ; and these 

 two have furnished the fossils mentioned. Several well-marked valves of 

 LepUena sericea and Strophomena alternata. The external markings of the 

 gasteropods are so effaced by metamorphism and weathering that it is very 

 difficult to distinguish species. There are several species of a slender J/wr- 

 chiso)iia, probably Al. gracilia, a single doubtful Maclurea and si)ecimen3 of 

 OpliUeta in abundance, oneincomidete Orthoceras, and a well-preserved new 

 siieciesof the genus Ptilodicfya. 



Considers these fossils of Trenton age, and that there can be no reasonable 

 doubt that this limestone containing Treuton fossils immediately underlies 

 the graptolitic shales of the Hudson River group. 



Branco. (Review.) O. C. Marsh. Dinocerata. A monograph of au 

 extinct order of gigantic mammals. (U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. x, Wash- 

 ington, 18S4. Gross 4to. xviii u. 237 Seiten, Mit 200 Holzschnitten 

 u. 50 Tafcln. Neu. Jahrb. flir Min., Geol. u. Pal., 1880. Band i, pp. 

 339-341. Stuttgart.) 

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