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tents of a Bone Cave in the Island of Anguilla" (West In- 

 dies) appeared in the quarto series. This memoir gives a 

 description of the fossil vertebrates, shells, and also of the 

 indications of human occupation discovered during the exca- 

 vation of a cave in the West Indian island of Anguilla. The 

 remains were discovered in 1868, and notices of them made, 

 but the publication of a full account was delayed, in the hope 

 that other objects might be added to the collection. 



The importance of the subject is shown by the fact that it 

 is the first investigation of the life of the cave age in the 

 West Indies ; that it gives the first reliable indication of the 

 period of submergence, and hence of separation, of the West 

 Indian islands, and that it describes some very peculiar 

 forms of animal life not previously known. 



The paper consists of thirty-four pages, and contains five 

 plates, with one hundred and five figures, the illustrations 

 being made particularly full on account of the archaeological 

 interest attaching to these animals, which were probably the 

 contemporaries of the earliest men of tropical America. 



A second work by Professor Cope was published in 1891 

 in the " Proceedings." This paper is a discussion of the 

 "Characters of Some Paleozoic Fishes." It contains, in addi- 

 tion, descriptions of five new species and one new genus 

 (Styptobasis) of fishes, and the cranial structure of Macropet- 

 alichthys is given for the first time. The author first referred 

 this genus to the Placodermata (Arthrodira), in a review of 

 Professor Newberry's work on " The Paleozoic Fishes of 

 North America," in " The American Naturalist " for Septem- 

 ber, 1890, and the view has been adopted by A. Smith 

 Woodward, and later authors. 



In addition to the foregoing, the following reprinted papers 

 from the annual Reports, and elsewhere, have been published 

 as separates: Marcou's "Bibliographies of American Natu- 



