WORTHEN—PLATYCRINUS. 569 
In case, however, he should not succeed in translating and 
explaining the said texts, in a satisfactory manner, according 
to Champollion’s princi les, rammar, and Dictionary,—an 
should fail to publish the said translation in the next number 
of the “ Atlantis,” or elsewhere,—then I should ask the learn- 
ed world to take the Rev. Reviewer for a gross and shameless 
calumniator. He disapproved of such “rather indecent ex- 
pressions,” already made use of, in a similar case, by Dr. Uhle- 
mann; but Justice makes no difference between learned and 
uleamed impostors: she treats individuals according to their 
conduct 
Notice of a new species of Puatycrinus and other Fossils, 
from the Mountain Limestone of Illinois and Iowa; 
being an extract from the Second Annual Report of the 
Illinois Geological Survey. By A. H. Wortuen, State 
Geologist 
Pics: PRATTENI, nN. sp. 
Platycrinus planus, (in part) of Owen = Shumard, Geol. Rep. on Wiscon- 
sin, Iowa, and Minnesota, by D. D. Owen. Pi. V. A.,Fig. 4 
Calyx large with an entirely smooth surface, the base te 
The arti 
ing a deeply widened pentagonal cup. | , 
bh : it adheres to the lak joint of the column is un- 
ing covered by a joint of the column itself. ‘The 
Seeding upwar : | h they form | 
Ga and ee again inst two of the first rad sae eres seem to 
the man- 
her of butt: esses. 
The first ; 
tly elongated, and are nidont 
sa igh ye neat inferior to their. 
Breries bare so that the calyx in passing upward narrows 
pieces appear slightly t neated, from their not entirely meet- 
: 5 feaed he buttress-like projections of the basal plates. 
the ie surfaces of the radial — and the _— 
bers of the basal plates, there are ons fit- 
NE tito a ee ete ee ra rhe rac 
