I40 CHARLES S. PROSSER 



geologists. This bed is 330 to 430 feet above No. 95 of the Kansas 

 valley section."^ 



Dr. E. Schellwien has recently stated in his description of Fusulina 

 montipara (Ehrbg.) Moller that: those portions of Moller's treatise, 

 which refer to the American forms, are to be stricken out.^ A footnote 

 on the same page contains the statement by Schellwien that: Moller 

 apparently was in doubt, whether or not the American Fusulinas 

 were identical with F. montipara. In the appendix (which the writer 

 has not seen) he has later expressed himself as being opposed to a 

 union of the forms. 



Dr. Schellwien has also stated that in America a Fusulina occurs 

 in Iowa, Indiana, and Nebraska which is described from there under 

 the name Fusulina cylindrica and departs so little from F. regularis 

 Schellwien that they probably must be united. ^ The last-named 

 species was reported by Dr. Schellwien from the Upper Carbon- 

 iferous of the Karnic Alps. In his later work he has again referred 

 to the close relationship existing between the eastern Alpine Fusulina 

 regularis and the widely distributed group of North American F. 

 secalis [secalica] Say.^ 



Dr. Schellwien further said that the so often cited Fusulina cylin- 

 drica in all probability does not occur in America. The genuine 

 Fusulina before me from Iowa, Illinios, Indiana, Missouri, and 

 Nebraska all belong to one and the same group, yet these forms 

 exhibit only a small part of the American Fusulinas.^ The opinion 

 that F. cylindrica Fischer does not occur in the United States is stated 

 more positively in Schellwien's last work on the Fusulinas where 

 he said : The American Fusulinas which will be described in a later 

 number show no relationship whatever to F. cylindrica.^ 



Dr. Beede first called attention to the description of the American 

 forms by Say in 1823 under the name of Miliolites secalicus, fourteen 

 years earlier than the description of the genus Fusulina and Euro- 

 pean species of F. cylindrica by Fischer v. Waldheim, and revived 



1 Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Peiersboiirg, Ser. VII, Vol. XXVII, 1S79, pp. 5, 6. 



2 Palaeontographica, Vol. LV, 1908, p. 185. 



3 Ihid., Vol. XLIV, 1897, p. 251. 5 Ihid., Vol. XLIV, p. 280, n. 3. 



4 Ibid., Vol. LV, 1908, p. 183, n. 4. ^ Jhid., Vol. LV, 1908, p. 162, n. 3. 



