224 Revieica — Dr. J. Lorie's Pays-Bas. 



. . . \i-e.'] all belong to the same system of interradial plates. ... 

 Wacbsmuth says that 'the first interradial [of the Platycrinidee] is 

 identical with the outer interradial plate of Coccocrinus,' in which 

 I entirely agree." Now see how these plain words are transmogri- 

 fied on p. 351 of the present paper: — "He regards (p. 178) the 

 peripheral portion of the ' vault,' by which he means the zone 

 between the so-called summit plates and the radials, as generally 

 corresponding to the large interradial of Cyathocrinus, and to the 

 single interradial of Coccocrinus." We draw particular attention to 

 these misrepresentations, not because we suppose for a moment that 

 they are intentional, but in order that readers of Messrs. Wacbsmuth 

 and Springer may not trust too lightly either to their citations or to 

 the charges of misrepresentation that they bring against others. 



We think indeed that what was correct in the writings of Dr. 

 Carpenter, not to mention others, might have been more graciously 

 acknowledged ; and we would distinctly reprehend the omission of 

 all allusion to Dr. M. Neumayr's explanation of the vault in the 

 Camerata, which appeared in Die Stamme des Thierreiches (1889), 

 and was substantially the same as that now put forward by Messrs. 

 Wacbsmuth and Springer. Much, however, may be pardoned in 

 consideration of the extreme interest of the present paper, which, 

 while it knocks the final nail into the coffin of the "Palseocrinoidea," 

 gives promise of many a vigorous discussion in the near future. 



The exquisite illustrations to this paper are by two well-known 

 Swedish artists. To the accuracy of the drawings by Mr. G. 

 Liljevall the present writer can bear witness ; of their beauty there 

 can be no question. Those by Mr. A. M. Westergren are no doubt 

 equally accurate, but the touch is a little too delicate ; plate x. 

 should have been printed in dai'ker ink. PI. ix. fig. 1, Cyathocrinus 

 alvtacevs, Angelin, must be referred to C. ramosus ; fig. 2, C. I. vis, 

 Ang., is also a G. ramosus ; fig. 3, C. Icevis, Ang., belongs to an 

 undescribed species. It is important to note that the originals of 

 figs. 2 and 3 are abnormal in the cup. These changes make no 

 difference to the argument of Messrs. Wacbsmuth and Springer ; 

 but the references to the figures (p. 356) might be corrected with 

 advantage, the numbers 2 and 3 are interchanged, which is per- 

 plexing. Plate X. fig. 15, is not alluded to either in the text or in 

 the explanation of the plate. But our most serious criticism of the 

 drawings is, as said before — tliere are not enough. F. A. B. 



III. — CONTKIBUTIONS A LA GeoLOGIE DES PaTS-BaS — V. LeS DuNES 

 INTERIEURES, LES ToURBIERES BASSES ET LES OSCILLATIONS DU 



Sol. Par Dr. J. Lokie, Archives Teyler, Ser. II. Tome III. 

 6^ partie. (Haarlem.) 



THE Memoir which forms the subject of this notice is the fifth 

 of a series which we owe to the industry of Dr. J. Loire of 

 Utrecht. It brings the geological record of Holland, down to the 

 period of authentic history, in fact, to the present day. In his 

 previously published works the author has brought together an 



