524 Notices of Memoirs. 



appearances due to abrupt change of material, oblique bedding, 

 ripples, wave-lines, ridges, and troughs, and has come to the con- 

 clusion that this 1,075 feet of arenaceous shale is a typical sandy 

 beach deposit. 



Chili and Argentina. — The long dispute over the boundary- 

 line between these two countries is further illustrated by Charles 

 Eabot in La Geographie, No. 4, 1901. As the frontier line 

 involves the watershed, the arbitration at present proceeding is of 

 vital importance to both countries. Eabot gives some excellent 

 reproductions from photographic views of the glacial phenomena of 

 the district, and a particularly clear map showing the differences 

 between the claims of the two countries. 



Professor C. E. Beecher gives an account in the Yale Scientific 

 Monthly for June, 1901, of the mounting of the complete skeleton 

 of the dinosaur Glaosaurus annectens. This is the first complete 

 skeleton of a dinosaur yet set up, and came from the Laramie beds. 

 It belonged to the Marsh Collection, is 29 feet in length, and is 

 placed in the Yale University Museum. A plate accompanies the 

 notice. 



" Maryland and its Natural Kesotjrces " is the title of 

 a pamphlet which has been prepared by W. Bullock Clarke as 

 the ofiScial publication of the Maryland Commissioners at the Pan- 

 American Exposition. 



Indian Tertiary Belemnites. — The announcement is made in 

 the Report of the work carried on by the Geological Survey of 

 India, 1900-1901, that Dr. F. Noetling has found great numbers 

 of true Belemnites in Lower Eocene beds near Jhirrak, in Sind. 



The Typhoon, Luzon. — The typhoon which swept Luzon on the 

 8th September, 1900, forms the subject of a memoir by Padre Jose 

 Coronas, S.J., which was issued by the Observatorio di Manila, 1900. 

 Beyond generalities, however, it has little geological interest. 



WooDWARDiAN MusEUM, CAMBRIDGE. — The additions made last 

 jear comprised, among other things, the collections of the late 

 C. J. A. Meyer, the greater part of a skeleton of Lutra vulgaris from 

 the peat of Barwell, and part of the S. S. Buckman Collection of 

 Inferior Oolite Ammonites. Mr. Reed has been at work on the 

 British and Foreign Palaeozoic fossils, Mr. Woods on the Cretaceous 

 fossils, and Mr. Asher on the fossil plants. The identification of 

 figured specimens continues to make satisfactory progress, and we 

 hope a revised catalogue of types will soon be attempted. 



Professor J. M. Clarke, State Paleontologist of New York, 

 announces in the Sith Annual Report of the New York State Museum 

 that a catalogue of the type fossils used throughout the history of 

 the " Pal8eontology of New York " is in hand. Specimens of type 

 fossils, as they are identified and can be replaced by duplicates, are 

 removed to a fireproof building, in accordance with the vote of the 

 Regents in 1882. It would be a good plan to have casts made of 

 them, for inclusion in the general collection. 



