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"Laminated Mudstone" in which the fishes occur. These two 

 sections are given as full-page plates; but by whatever pi'ocess they 

 may have been reproduced, they compare very unfavourably with 

 the fine series of plates representing the fossils, and are not in 

 keeping with the other parts of the work. It is to be regretted 

 that these rough-looking plates should have been introduced to the 

 detriment of what is otherwise an admirably executed memoir. 



The remains of a small Labyrinthodont have been found in this 

 fish bed, and have already been described by Prof. W. J. Stephens, 

 in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Mr. Smith Woodward's description of the Gosford fishes occupies 

 between fifty and sixty pages, and is illustrated by ten excellent 

 lithographic plates by Messrs. Berjeau and Highley. The greater 

 number of these fishes belong to the Ganoidei ; but among them 

 there is one specimen, referable to the Cestraciont group of 

 Selachians, which is, however, too imperfect to admit of even 

 generic determination ; and there are some others, representing the 

 Dipnoi, for which a new genus and species, Gosfordia truncata, are 

 established. The Ganoids are represented by nine genera, of which 

 one only, Apatolepis, is new ; but two others, Myriolepis and Cleithro- 

 lepis, were proposed by Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton in 1864 

 for specimens from New South Wales, sent over by the Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke. Each of these genera is represented by one or two species, 

 as are also the following six, namely, Dicti/opyge, Belonorliynchus, 

 Semionotus, Pristisomm, Pholidophorus, and Pellopleurus. Altogether 

 fourteen new species of Ganoids are described. 



After a detailed description of each genus and species the author 

 institutes a comparison with the genera which have been found in 

 the Trias, RhaBtic, and Lower Lias of other parts of the world, and 

 in order to show more clearly the position occupied by the Hawkes- 

 bury fishes, the important genera from the above formations are 

 arranged in a tabular form. Attention is called to the absence 

 from the Hawkesbury beds of fishes with well-developed vertebral 

 centra, and the conclusion is drawn, that, so far as can be determined 

 by the fishes, the Hawkesbury beds are homotaxial with the Keuper 

 of Europe, or at latest with the Rhaatics. 



The description of the Gosford fishes has been very carefully and 

 systematically carried out by Mr. Smith Woodward, and the printing 

 and lithographic plates are all that can be desired. Indeed, with the 

 exception of the geological sections alluded to above, the memoir is 

 worthy of the Geological Survey, by which it is issued, and a credit 

 to the editor, and all concerned in its production. E. T. N. 



IY. — Annuaire Geologique Universel. Revue de Geologie et 

 Paleontologie. By Dr. L. Carez and H. Douville. Tome v. 

 Annee 1888. (Paris, 1890.) 



niHE rapid growth in size in the volumes of the " Revue Geologique 

 J. Annuaire" has been fully continued in that issued for the year 



1888. It consists of 1273 pages as against 922 in the preceding 



volume, while an increase of 700 entries in the bibliographic index 



