2^ Fossil Crocodile. 



•3- Vicissitudes of winds and weather on this coast, which do not 

 conform to the foregoing specifications, are more frequent in 

 April, May, and June, than in other months. Easterly or 

 southerly winds, under which the barometer rises or maintains 

 its elevation, are not of a gyratory or stormy character; but 

 such winds frequently terminate in the falling of the barometer, 

 and the usual phenomena of an eastern storm. 



The typhons and storms of the China Sea and eastern coast 

 of Asia, appear to be similar in character to the hurricanes of 

 the West Indies, and the storms of this coast, when prevailing 

 in the same latitudes. There is reason to believe, that the great 

 circuits of wind, of which the trade winds form an integral part, 

 are nearly uniform in all the great oceanic basins, and that the 

 course of these circuits, and of the stormy gyrations which they 

 may contain, is, in the southern hemisphere, in a cotmter direction 

 to those north of the equator, producing a corresponding diffe- 

 rence in the general phases of storms and winds in the two 

 hemispheres. — Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts, vol. xxv. No. I. 

 p. 114. 



Critical Notices of various Organic Remains hitherto discover- 

 ed in North America. By Richaud Harlan, M. D. 

 (Concluded from last Number.) 



ORDER SAURIA. 

 Genus Chocodilus, Cuv. 

 C. macrorhyncm, Harlan. 

 Journ. of tlie Acad, of Nat. Sciences, Philada. vol. iv. p. 15, pi. !. 

 Several fine specimens of the jaw, teeth, vertebrae, &c. of an 

 extinct fossil species of crocodile from the New Jersey marl- 

 pits,* are contained in the Cab. of Ac. Nat. Sciences ; the most 

 perfect of these is described and figured as above referred to. 

 It consists of the dental bone of the right side, in a good state 

 of preservation, perfectly fossilized, or impregnated with iron, 

 so abundant in the marl-pits of New Jersey ; it contains the 

 sockets of eleven teeth in a space of twelve inches. 



The most striking peculiarity of this remnant is its great 



• Marl-pits occur both in the secondary and tertiary of the Atlantic coast. 



