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Miscellaneous Intelligence. 453 
and Devonian Formations of the United States, and 6 me of 
inct Mammalia ; by Joseru Lety, —From the Journ. Acad 
Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12 pp. 4to, with 3 plates.—The Species of Fishes 
ort Gibson, a gigantic fish related to Carcharodon, 
a fragment of the jaw of which is 6 inches long; Oracanthus Sige a 
Leidy, from ip pie ene "cig i from Blair Co., 0- 
loptychius Americanus, Leidy, a Co., hint Decoxeatia 
(eidy) nitidus, same ee ality as last . Apedodus pr scus, L., Columbia 
.y Pa.—The Mammals, are Camelops Kansanus, (Let rom the Terri- 
ansas ; Can. is primevus, from the ban the Ohio river a 
short distance below Evansville, Indiana, senosintod with Megalony yx Jef- 
Tapirus Haysii j— Ursus amplidens, L., from a ravine near Natchez, 
Mississi pp, occurring with Hguus Americanus, Cervus Virginianus fossilis, 
Mastodon, Megalonyx, Mylodon, Ereptodon ; Ursus Americanus fossilis, 
from near 5 tchez ; Procyon priscus, LeConte, from Galena, Illinois. 
L. 
by J. 2 R.S. 
sity College, London, and N. M. Ferris, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and 
Caius College, Cambridge; assisted a. G. G. Sroxes , M.A., F.R.S., Luca- 
sian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambri idge, A. Cay- 
LEY. F.R.S., late Fellow of Trinity College, ame ee and M. 
Hunurrs, Corresponding Editor of Paris; 8vo. London: John W. Parker 
_ and Son, West Strand; 5s. each number. The Bi number of this Math- 
ematical igeiesttof Journal, was issued in April, 1855. The character of 
the work may be inferred from a. distinguished names constituting its 
board of Editors, Each number contains.96 pages octavo, and is occu- 
pied with papers 2 both in pure ae eRe ane. the applications of math- 
12. Fossils of South Carolina ; bee! M. toes ey and F.S. Howes, 4to. 
1856 ; 
aad The plates are ako, fine. They represent the species Peo- 
ten septenarius, Mytilus incrassatus, M. inflatus, Arca hians, A. incile, 
A. coelata, A..centenaria, A. rustica, A. ionomem oe improcera, A. trans- 
versa, A. scalaris, A. equicostata, A, incongrua, A. pexa’ 
13. Abhandlun ngen a Kaiserlich-Kéniglichen Galaga Reichsan- 
stalt, Il, Band.—4to, with 78 lithographic plates. Wien.—This splen- 
did volume issued by the Royal Geol ogical Bociety at Vienna, (1855), 
nitz in Bohemia ; also.a memoir by Dr n the Fossil Flora 
(Tertiary) of Siebenburg The third paper by von Ettingshausen, con 
tains among its 29 plates representations of some f nificent 
er 
Lepidodendra in full ran and in one, of the L. Sternbergit, the linear 
or acicular leaves are over a foot long, and form a dense mass about a 
branch 14 inches thick, the whole two feet in length. 
