250 RECORD OF SCIENCE FOR 1886. 



Ford, S. W., and W. B. Dwight. Preliminary Report of S. W. Ford 

 and \\ . B. Dwiglit upon the fossils obtained in 1885 from Metamorpbic 

 limestones of the Taconic series of Prof. Em mons at Canaan, New York. 

 (With plate vii.) 



A. Explanatory statement with reference to the paleontological investigations 

 at Canaan, by W. B. Dwigbt. (Nature, voL xxsiv, p, 6^, 1886. London and 

 New York.) 

 Notice of. See Amer. Jour. Sci., April. 



Ford, S. W. Note on the Age of the Swedish Paradoxides Beds. 

 (Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol xxxii, pp. 473-470, December, 188G. 

 Kew Haven.) 



The facts (1) tbat the position of raradoxides Kjerulft. in the Swedish Primordial 

 is directly below the zone carrying the British P. Ilicksi ; (2) that it is 

 clearly allied to P. olainUcus, a Brachypleural species and an undoubted 

 Paradoxides ; and (3) that it is a Menevian species in America ; all appear 

 to me to indicate tbat it is a Menevian species in Europe also, and tbat, the 

 strata there affording it, may be regarded as constituting a legitimate por- 

 tion of the SvN'edibb Paradoxides measures. 



Ford, S. W. {See Hinde, George J.) 



FoERSTE, A. F. The Clinton Group of Ohio. (Bull. Sci. Laboratories 

 Denison Lniversit}-, vol. i, pp. G3-120, pis. xiii, xiv, December, 1885. 

 Granville, Ohio.) 



Paleontology (pp. 76-120) describes the fossils of the group and discusses their 

 stratigraphic relations. The following new species are described: Zpj;- 

 twna i^olongata, Oi-Uiis fausta, 0. daytonensis, 0. <rijj^.'sfa (generic relations 

 unknown), Grammysia casivelli, Nucula minima, Troclionema nana, Paphis- 

 toma affinis, Cyclora aJta, Bucania exigiia, Belleroplwn fisceUo-striatus, IlUvnus 

 amVigunfi, Dahnanitrs iccrthneri, and Orthoceras inceptnm. 



Gardner, J. S. Sketch of the early history and subsequent progress 

 of Paleobotany. (Nature, vol. xxxiv, pp. 598-599, 18SG. Loiulon and 

 New York.) 



From the Fifth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey, by Lester F. 

 ^Vard, condensed by J. S. Gardner. 



Gardner, J. S. Mesozoic Augiosperms. (Plate ix, Geol. Mag., new 

 ser.. Decade in, vol. iii, pi). 342-345, August, 18SG. Loudon.) 



Review and abstract of Prof. Lester F. Ward's article on " Paleobotany " in 

 the Fifth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Geyler, Hermann T. Leo Lesquereux Contributions to the fossil 

 tlora of the Western Territories. Part in. The Cretaceous and Ter- 

 tiary floras. In F. Y. Hayden's Report of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey of the Territories, vol. viii. (283 Seiten und 59 Tafeln, 

 4to. Neu, Jahrb. Min. Geol. und Pal , 18SG, Band i, pp. 153-159. 

 Stuttgart.) 



Abstract. 



Grant, C. E., and W. DA^vsoN. Notes on Pleistocene Fossils from 

 Anticosti. (Canad. Eec. Sci., vol. ii, No. 1, pp. 44-48, 188G* Mon- 

 treal.) 



Gives lists of the fossils, all of which occur also as living species in the colder 

 waters of the Gulf and River St. Lawrence. 



