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tion of specimens from the Coal Measures of southeastern Nebraska 

 which he identified as Fusulina cylindrica Fischer: 



In following the general practice of referring this to the Russian species, I am 

 not only governed by comparisons with figures and descriptions of the latter, but 

 I have had an opportunity to make direct comparison with specimens of F. cylin- 

 drica kindly sent to me by Colonel Romanowski, of the Russian mining-engineers's 

 department, from the Ural Mountains. It is true these Russian specimens are not 

 in a condition to show very clearly in polished sections the minute details of their 

 internal structure under the microscope, but so far as I have been able to deter- 

 mine from the comparison, they seem to agree well with the American form.^ 



Orestes H. St. John collected specimens from many of the Kansas 

 horizons which he sent to Moller who carefully studied them and 

 referred them to European species. As for example, he referred 

 with a ? mark Fusulina cylindrica Meek, Neb. 1872, Report, pp. 

 140, 141, PI. I, Fig. 2, to Fusulina montipara Ehren,^ and in the 

 same way Figs. 3a and 36, PI. V, and Figs. 8a and 8b, PL VII, of the 

 Meek and Hayden report were considered with a ? mark as synonyms 

 of Fusulina Verneuili Moller.^ Later he accepted the species 

 Fusulina ventricosa Meek and Hayden for part of the Kansas valley 

 forms; and other specimens, which he stated were very well figured 

 in the Meek and Hayden reports (PI. II, Fig. i ; PI. V, Figs. 3a and 

 36; PL VII, Figs. 8a and 8h, and Palaeontology of the Upper Missouri, 

 1865, PL I, Figs. 6a-~6c), he considered a variety of the above-men- 

 tioned species and denoted it as F. ventricosa Meek and Hayden 

 var. Meeki Moller.^ Then follows a list of localities in the Kansas 

 valley from which specimens of these two forms were sent him by 

 Professor Orestes St. John. Fusulina ventricosa var. Meeki he 

 stated is distributed throughout all the strata from which St. John 

 sent him specimens, and he noted it particularly in those specimens 

 with the numbers 1-5 and 11.^ This statement is accompanied by a 

 note, apparently furnished by St. John, which states that "No. 11 is in 

 the Kansas valley, bed No. 28, Manhattan, Kan. This is the highest 

 or most recent horizon, in which Fusulina has been found and is 

 near the base of the so-called Permo-Carboniferous of American 



' Final Kept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Neb. and Adjacent Territories, p. 140. 



2 Metn. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. VII, Vol. XXV, 1878, p. 62. 



3 Ibid., p. 64. 



4 Ibid., Vol. XXVII, 1879, p. 5. 5 Ibid., p. 6. 



