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the Rhenish or in the Belgian-French Devonian of the prevailing 
hard quartzitic sandstones and grauwackes of the Lower Division in 
North Devon. The Pilton beds and the Cucullea zone or Baggy beds 
correspond rather to the Belgian than to the Rhenish Upper Devonian, 
and there is nothing analogous, either in the Rhine district, Belgium, 
or Northern France, to the Pickwell sandstones and the slates of 
Morte and Ilfracombe. Not only are the limestones of the South 
Devon Series almost entirely replaced by the slates and sandstones of 
the North, but there is further in this area a complete absence of the 
greenstone and schalstein. 
IV.—On tHe Spiyose Ruyncwonett= (Gunus Acanraoraynis, 
D’Orpieny) FounD in Eneuanp. By 8. 8S. Buckman, F.G.5., 
and Joun Francois Waker, M.A., F.G.S.—On YEREBRATULA 
BIsInvATA, LAM., FROM THE Lonpon CLay or Hampsuire. By 
J. F. Warxer, F.G.S.—On Ooxrric Bracuiopopa NEW TO YORK- 
suing. By J. F. Water, F.G.S. (From the Yorkshire Philo- 
sophical Society’s Report, 1888, York, 1889.) 
ble first of these papers gives a history and bibliography of the 
genus Acanthothyris as distinguished from Rhynchonella, and 
describes the species and varieties (ten in number) occurring in 
England, with their geological and geographical distribution. 
In the second paper Mr. Walker records the occurrence of numbers 
of the hitherto rare Terebratula bisinuata, in beds, apparently of 
Bracklesham age, near Fareham, in Hampshire. The last paper 
contains a list and descriptions of sixteen new species and varieties 
of Brachiopods, some of them new forms, discovered in the Oolitic 
strata of Yorkshire since 1876. 
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I.—BuLLETINS oF THE GroLoGicaL SocreTY oF FRANCE. 
HE last number of the Bulletin of this Society (ser. 3, vol. xvi. 
No. 8, 1888) contains several papers of considerable interest. 
We have the concluding portion of a paper by M. Gihlert on some 
Devonian Pelecypoda, and this is illustrated by phototypes of the 
author’s drawings. Species of Avicula, Pterinea, Cypricardinia, 
Sanguinolites, Goniophora, Pteronites, Modiomorpha, Ctenodonta, 
Paleoneilo, and Guerangeria are described. 
M. W. Kilian gives an account of a number of Cephalopoda and 
one Brachiopod, from the Lower Cretaceous strata of Provence. 
These include Ammonites, which are noted under the perplexing 
names of Lytoceras, Silesites, Holcodiscus, Pulchellia, and Hoplites ; 
also species of Heteroceras, and a Rhynchonella. 
M. R. Zeiller notes the presence in the Grés bigarré of the 
Vosges, of the fern Acrostichites rhombifolius. 
M. H. Douvillé contributes some studies on Caprina, Caprinula, 
and Plagioptychus. 
M. Hébert gives the second part of his paper on the Cretaceous 
formation of the Pyrenees, dealing with the Senonian stage. 
