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described, including such well-known Rhgetic fossils as Cladophlebis 

 nebbensis (Brongt.) and Polozamites lanceolatus (L. & H.). Several 

 other specimens, mostly fragmentary, are figured from the province 

 of Bitchu and are probably of similar age. A number of excellent 

 figures of most of the species described are given. E. A. N. A. 



11. — New Species and a New Genus of Bateachian Footprints 

 OF THE Carboniferous Systebi in Eastern Canada. By 

 G. F. Matthew, D.Sc, LL.D. Trans. Roy, Soc. Canada, ser. ii, 

 vol. X, sec. 4, pp. 77-110, with 5 plates, 1904-1905. 



THIS article contains descriptions of species that more fully 

 present the characters of the genera described from the type 

 species in an article published last year in the Canadian Record of 

 Science, Montreal. It also contains descriptions of the. new genus 

 JDromillopus, founded on the footprints of a small Batrachian of the 

 Coal-measures of Joggins, Nova Scotia. 



This article also refers the species Dromopus celer of the preceding 

 article provisionally to Woodworth's genus BatracMchnus. 



The full descriptions of the genera and species described in the 

 article in the Canadian Record of Science are here re-presented, with 

 additional notes. 



Six plates of figures accompany this article and show clearly the 

 generic and specific characters of the species of footprints described. 



In conclusion, the writer makes comparisons of these footmarks 

 with those of the frog and the alligator, and finds that they show 

 closer resemblances to those of the latter than to the footsteps of the 

 former, but he concludes that there are peculiarities of form in the 

 fossil footprints not to be found in either of the recent forms used 

 for comparison, and that Labyrinthodonts and Microsauria are 

 responsible for many of these tracks. 



III. — Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, New Zealand. By 

 Professor Sollas, F.R.S. With an Introduction and Descriptive 

 Notes by Alexander McKay, F.G.S., Government Geologist, 

 New Zealand. Vol. I. pp. 289. (Wellington, 1905.) 



THIS volume on the rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula is chiefly 

 devoted to the description by Professor Sollas of the specimens 

 which were submitted to him by the New Zealand Government. 

 Some diversity had arisen in the nomenclature of the igneous rocks 

 which are the source of the gold in the Thames Goldfield, and it was 

 decided to obtain an authoritative opinion by submitting a selection 

 of the rocks to a competent petrologist. The principal object of the 

 report is therefore to place on a satisfactory footing the nomenclature 

 of the rocks of the Peninsula. 



The present volume contains only the descriptive notes on the first 

 204 specimens sent to Professor Sollas. That he is not responsible 

 for the form in which they are published is evident from a somewhat 

 pathetic footnote on p. 126, in which he disclaims responsibility for 



