284 RECORD OF SCIEN'CE FOR 1886. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Notice of Geological Iu%estigations 

 along the Eastern Shore of Lake Chaiuphiin, conducted by Prof. 

 II. M. Seely and President Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, 

 with descriptions of the uew Fossils discovered, by R. P. "Whitfield. 

 (Bull. Auier. Miis. Nat. Hist., vol. I, pp. 293-345, pis. xxiv-xxxiv, 

 December, 1880. New York.) 



Describes a group of fossils from the lake shore a few miles from Verijennes, 

 Vermont, in a bed referred to the Birdseye limestone, which has yielded so 

 far five Brachiopods, sixteen Gasteropods, twelve Cei^halopods and one 

 variety ; two Trilobites and two bivalve Crustaceans ; thirty-seven species 

 and one variety, all iu a recognizable condition, and are here illustrated; 

 all but five of these are new to science. The following are their names: 

 Str(2)torhi/nchu8^ 2)ri»iordialr, TripleHia lateralis, Tryblidiitvi ovale, T. ovatum, 

 T. conlcum, Cllso.spira lirata, Euomphaltis eircnmliratus, Ra2}}iisloina com- 

 jyressum, Holopea Caasina, Lopliospira Caasina, Eccnliomphalus volutafits, 

 Calauiops lilnijormis, Murehisonial prava, Stihulites obesus, Bellerophon 

 Cass'uicnsis, Orihoccras Brainerdi, 0. cornu-oryx, Gomphoceras niinimmn, 

 G. Cassinense, Piloctras explanator, Cyrtoceras Boycii, C. acinacellnm, C. con- 

 fertissimum, Nautilus Kelloggi, Xantilus^ Champlainensls, LUuites Seelyi, L. 

 Eatoni, L. internostriatiis, Sao ? Lainotttnsis, Bathyiirus ? Seelyi, Lichas Cham- 

 2}la'nie)i.w, lilhetria compressa, R. ventricosa. 



The new genera described iu the preceding list are as follows: Under Gas- 

 teropoda Lophospira, and Calaurops* 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Notice of Geological Investigations 

 along the Eastern Shore of Lake Champlain, made by Prof. H. M. Seely 

 and President Ezra Brainerd. (Amer. Nat., vol. xx, pp. 1041-1043, 

 December, 1880. Philadelphia.) 



Abstract of e- paper announcing the discovery of quite an extensive new fauna 

 in limestones, apparently of the ago of the Birdseye limestone of the New 

 York series, near the mouth of the Otter Creek, Lake Champlain, which is 

 of much interest owing to the fact that only about fifteen species of fossils 

 have hitherto been known from the formiitiou. The new forms described 

 in the paper from this one bed are fifteen iu number, comprising one Brach- 

 iopod, six Gasteropods, and nine Cephalopods. One of the Gasteropods 

 has given reasons for the establishment of a new genus Lophospira, with 

 Murchisonia bicincta Hall, and M. hellcteres Salter as the types. Subse- 

 quent collections made at the same locality give a total of forty recognized 

 species in a condition suitable for description and illustration, of which 

 the uew ones are shortly to appear in a bulletin of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. Notice of a new fossil body, probably a 

 sponge related to Dictyophytou. (Bull. Araer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 I, pp. 340-348, December, 1880. New York.) 



Describes a new genus .lud two new species from the slates at Kenwood near 

 Albany, New York. The author names the new genus BhombodictyonA 

 Under this he describes Bhombodictyon reniforme, and B. discum. 



Whitfield, Robert Parr. {See Davis, W. M. ; White, Charles A.) 



* Ka?,avpo^, a shepherd's crook or staff. 



t " In reference to the rhoinl)ic character of the species formed by the different seta 

 of rods forming the network of their substance." 



