SHUMARD—NEW FOSSILS. 387 
Notice of Fosstts FROM THE PerMIAN Strata of Texas 
and New Mexico, obtained by the United States Expe- 
along the 32d Par al., with Descriptions of New Species 
nial these Strata and the Coal Measures of that region. 
By B. F. Saumarp, M.D. 
PERMIAN FOSSILS. 
At the meeting of March 8, 1858, I had the honor of an- 
nouncing to the Academy the existence of an extensive de- 
of Permian 
Rocks in the Guadalupe Mountains of 
a and New Mexico. This announcement was based 
fossils” 
a ratl examination of a series of collecte by 
zat . Geo. G. Shumard, while actin a Geologist 
‘the U. S. — boring Artesian = a the 
n and desertion It will be seen that the 
list. “Ras a umber ¢ of es that occur in the Permian, 
beds of Kansas, and which are sipen described in the valua- 
oe papers of M. Swallow and Hawn oe eee Ee 
, ind tical 
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