32 A Bibliography of the Geology, etc., of California. 



Triton, sp.?; Cytherea{Meretrix) Dariena ; Tamiosoma gregaria,r\.si>., 

 Monterey County. 



Pandora hUirata, n.sp., Santa Barbara. 



Cardita occidentalis, n.sp., Santa Barbara. 



Diadora crucilniliformis, n.sp., Santa Barbara. 



The author discusses the age of the formation afterward called by 

 the California geologists the Chico group. Newberry admits the Ter- 

 tiary character of a part of the fossils, but is inclined to refer the 

 formation to the Cretaceous, because of the presence in it of Ammo- 

 nites, etc. 



Pacific Railroad Reports, Vol. VII. Routes in California to 

 connect with the routes near the 35th and 32d parallel 

 and routes near the 32d parallel, between the Rio Grande 

 and Pimas villages, explored by John G, Parke in 

 1854-55. Geological report by Thomas Antisell. (33d 

 Cong., 2d sess.. Senate Ex. Doc. 78. 1857.) 



This report contains chapters on the physical geography of the 

 Pacific Coast ; geology of the Coast llanges ; Santa Clara Valley and 

 Pajaro River Valley ; Salinas River Valley ; Santa Margarita Valley ; 

 Point Pinos Mountains and Sierra San Jos6 ; Santa Maria River and 

 Cuyama Valley ; Santa Lucia Mountains; Valley of San Luis Obispo, 

 Santa Barbara Mountains ; geology of the Sierra Susanna and Mon- 

 ica ; Plains of San Fernando ; Los Angeles and San Bernardino ; 

 with the geology of the Cordilleras, etc.; Estrella River; Panza and 

 Carrizo ; Mojave River Valley; bituminous effusions; Quaternary 

 period in California ; geology of the district from San Diego to Fort 

 Yuma, and from Fort Yuma to the I^imas villages; etc., etc. 



Report on the Palaeontology of the survey; by T. A. Con- 

 rad. Chapter XXIX, pp. 189-196, with 10 plates. 



The author remarks that the Miocene of Santa Barbara contains a 

 group of shells more analogous to the fossils of the Atlantic slope 

 than to the existing shells of California ; but it is evident that there 

 must be subdivisions in the Tertiary deposits of California, which 

 range between the Eocene and Pliocene periods, for the group of the 

 Estrella Valley and Santa Ynez (Barbara) Mountains does not appear 

 to contain one species, even, analogous to any in the Santa Barbara 

 beds, and, on the contrary, some of them remind us of the existing 

 Pacific fatina. 



The author describes and figures the following new species : 



From Santa Margarita, Salinas Valley : Hinnetes crassa. 



From San Rafael Hills and Santa Barbara County : Pecten Meeki; 

 P. altiplicatus; Arcopagia unda. 



From Carrizo Creek, Colorado Desert, and Estrella River Valley : 

 Pecten deserti, Conrad; Pallium Estrellanum; Spondylus JEstrellanus ; 

 Arcopagia unda; CycJas Estrellana; Ostrea 2janzana; Glycimeris Es- 

 trellanus; Balanus Estrellanus ; Astrodapsi.s Antiselli. 



From Santa Ynez and Santa Ynez Mountains: Pecten discus; 

 Pachydesma Inezana; Pecten magnolia; Crassatella collina; Mytilvs 



