NORTH AMERICAN PALAEONTOLOGY. 283 



Whitfield, Kobert Pare. Professor Thorell and the Americau Si- 

 lurian Scorpion. (Science, vol. vii, No. 161, pp. 216, 217, March, 

 1886. New York.) 



Au answer to Professor Thorell's criticism in the American Naturalist, March, 

 1886, p. 269. 



Whitfield, Kobert Parr, Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of 

 the Uaritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey. (Mono- 

 graphs of the U. S. Geological Survey, vol. ix, pp. i-xx and 1-264, 

 1>18. i-xxxv. Washington, 1885.) Same. (Geological Survey of 

 New Jersey ; George H. Cook, State geologist, 1886. Trenton, N. J.) 

 The report, besides coutaiuinjr all the species hitherto described and i)ubllshed, 



contains the following new ones: 

 Section ii. Lauiellibrauchiate Shells from the Plastic Clay: Ambotiicardia 

 Cookii, Corblcula ? emacerala, Gnaihodon ? teniiidens. Section iii. La- 

 mellibranchiata from the Lower Marl Beds: Pecten planicostatus, Amusium 

 Conradi, Camptonectes parvus, Mytilus oblivius, Modiola Burliugtonensis, 

 Pteria navicula, Gervilliopsis minima, Inoceramus pro-ohViquus, Cibota obesa, 

 Axinea alia, Niicula monviouthennis, Nuculana Gabbana, Trigonia Mortoni, T. 

 cerulia, Goiddia Conradi, Lucina Smockana, Diceras dacfjjloides, Cardium 

 (Protocardiuin) perelongatum, Pachycardium Burlingfoiiense, Fuhia tenuis, 

 Fragum teiiuistriatum, Leiopistha inflata, SphwxoUa umbonata, Cyprimeria 

 Heilprini, Dosinia Gabbi, D. ? erecta, Linearia contractu, Corimya tenuis, 

 Veleda TeUinoides, V. transversa, Pholadomya Boemeri, Pholas ? lata. Sec- 

 tion iv. Lamellibranchiata from the Middle Beds: Gryphcea Bryani var. 

 precedens, Modiola {Lithodomusl) inflata, Idonearca medians, I. compressi- 

 rostra. Section v. Lamellibranchiata from the lower layers of the Upper 

 Marl Beds of New Jersey: Ostrea glandiformis, Modiola Johnsoni, Cardita 

 intermedia, Crassatella Conradi, C. rhombea, Criocardinm nucleolus, Petricola 

 i^ova-JSgyptica, Valeda nasuta, Caryatis ? vela, Panopea elliptica, Peri- 

 plomya truncata. Section vi. Lamellibranchiata from the Eocene Marls of 

 New Jersey: Ostrea glauconoides, O. {Alectrionial) linguafclis, Pecten Eigbyi, 

 Nncula Circe, Nucularia secunda, Axinea Conradi, Astarte castanella, A.plani- 

 marginata, Cardila Brittoni, Crassatella obliquata, Caryatis ovaUs, Velida 

 equilatera, Corbula {Necera) nasutoides, Necera aquivalvis, Parapholas Kneis- 

 kerni, Teredo emacerata. Section vii. UnionidtB from the clays at Fish 

 Honse, Camden County : Unio pra;anodontoides, U. rectoides. 

 The new genera which appear in the above lists are the following: Amboni- 

 cardia, Meleagrinella, and Gervilliopsis. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of 

 the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, Vol. i, 270 

 pages, ito., with thirty-five lithographic plates of fossils and a colored 

 geological map of part of the State. (Geological Survey of New 

 Jersey, Trenton, 1886.) (Araer, Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. xxxii, pp. 

 324-325, October, 1886. New Haven.) 



Review of. This book was first published as Monograph of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, vol. ix, Washington, 1H85. 



Whitfied, Robert Parr, Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of 

 the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, Washing- 

 ton, Government, 1885, 4to, (Science, vol. viii, No. 196, p. 422, 

 November, 1886. New York.) 



Rftviftw of, and abstract from. 



