108 Scientific Intelligence. 
2. Descriptions of New Species of Palaeozoic Fossils from the Le 
Helderberg, Oriskany Sandstone, Upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Ch 
mung Groups; by James Hatt. 146 pp. with wood-cuts. Extracted 
from the Report of the Regents of the University. Albany, 1857.—This 
pamphlet is issued by the State in advance of the third and fourth 
quarto volumes on the Palzontology by Prof. Hall, of which the third is 
etongatus, 
The pamphlet closes with a short paper by Mr. Hall on his genus Tel- 
linomya (see Pal. N. Y., vol. i). The paper was published originally m 
the “Canadian Naturalist and Geologist.” From recently discover 
specimens, he has found that the teeth of the hinge have a close relation 
to those of the genus Nucula, and he is enabled to give the following 
corrected description : 
LLINOMYA.—Shell equivalve, equilateral or subequilateral, closed, 
th or marked by lines of growth, ligament external; hinge-line~ 
curved, sometimes subangular, with a continuous series of small curved 
transverse teeth, which diminish from the extremities to the beak, be- 
neath which, they are much smaller. Muscular impressions double, two 
anterior and two posterior, one large and strongly impressed, the other 
smaller, lying above and between the larger one and the hinge-line; 
pallial impression simple. | 
e refers to it, Ctenodonta of Salter. 
3. Cosmogony, or the Mysteries of Creation; by Tuos. A. Davies. 
8vo. New York.—There is quite an extensive show of science 
That the theory that boulders or rounded stones are water-worn rocks ‘ 
entirely untenable ;’—that all “vegetable mould was made undoubtedly 
in connection with the vegetable kingdom in the primitive creation,” and 
that we may as we say milk comes from granite as ingredients that 1m- 
prove or make soils ;—that fossil bones and shells, ancient sca beac 
and ripple marks, ete., are primitive creations, spoken into existe 
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