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a species larger than any one yet discovered, extinct and recent. 
Among the remains of mammals thus indicated there are mingled 
numerous fragments of bones of a large land turtle. 
2. Permian of Kansas and New Mexico—The discovery of the Per- 
mian in Kansas is announced in our last number by Prof. Swallow. A 
paper read before the Albany Institute by Meek and Hayden, and re- 
cently published (vol. iv. of Trans. Albany Institute, and read March 2,) 
announces the same discovery as an independent conclusion, and contains 
descriptions of ten new species of shells from the formation, The speci- 
mens, which enabled them to pronounce the rocks Permian were received 
from Major Hawn. The specimens are from near the Smoky Hill fork of , 
Kansas river. The same rocks have also been observed near Helena 1 Ot 
miles northeast; and near the boundary of Nebraska and Missouri. 4 
- On the 8th of March Jast, Dr B. F. Shumard announced to the Acad- 
emy of Science at St. Louis, 
he had found the fossils which his brother Dr. G. G. Shumard had brought 
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Dr. G. G. Shumard, this white limestone is more than a thousand feet 
thick. The fossils will soon escribed. 
_ Since the above was written, we have received a pamphlet. by Prof. G. 
C. Swallow and Major F. Hawn treating of the Permian rocks of Kan oa 
new. It is from the Transactions of the Acad. Sci. of St. Louis, vol. I, 
horse existed here long antecedent to its introduction by th 
The bluff where the specimens were obtained is about 30 feet 
