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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. II. No. 47. 



cut out the various items for pasting upon cards 

 of his catalogue. 



Appended are some of the more important 

 papers which, thougli having appeared during 

 the interim of 1888-1892, have not been listed 

 by Mr. Keyes. 



Ami, Henry M. Notes and Descriptions of 

 some New and hitherto Unrecorded Species of 

 Fossils from the Cambro-Silurian (Ordovician) 

 Rocks of the Province of Ontario. Can. Rec. 

 Sci. V, 96-103. April, 1892. 



Ami, Henry M. Palseontological Notes I. 

 On a Collection of Fossils from the Ordovician 

 of Joliette in the Province of Ontario. Can. 

 Rec. Sci. V, 104-107. April, 1892. 



Ami, Henry M. Palseontological Notes II. 

 On the Occurrence of Fossil Remains on the 

 Manitou Islands, Lake Nipissing, Ontario. Can. 

 Rec. Sci. V, 107-108. April, 1892. 



Ami, Henry M. The Utica Terrane in Canada. 

 Can. Rec. Sci. v, 166-183 ; 234-246. July and 

 October, 1892. 



Beecher, Charles E. On the Development of 

 the Shell in the genus Tornoceras, Hyatt. Am. 

 Jour. Sci. xl, 71-75, i. July, 1890. 



Calvin, S. Some New Species of Paleozoic 

 Fossils. Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. 

 Iowa, i, 173-181, i-iii. June, 1890. 



Dawson, J. Wm. On Sporocarps discovered 

 by Prof. E. Orton in the Brian Shale of Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. Can. Rec. Sci. iii, 137-140. July, 

 1888. 



HoUick, Arthur. Additions to the Paleo- 

 botany of the Cretaceous Formation on Staten 

 Island. Trans. N. Y. Ac. Sci. xii, 28-39, i-iv. 

 Nov., 1892. 



Hollick, Arthur. Paleobotany of the Yellow 

 Gravel at Bridgeton, N. J. Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club, xix, 330-333. Nov., 1892. 



Hyatt, Alpheus. Jura and Trias at Taylor- 

 ville, Cal.' Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. iii, 395-412. 



Koken, E. Ueber die Entwickelungsge- 

 schichte der Gastropoden vom Cambrium bis 

 zur Trias. Neues Jahrb. Min., etc., B. B. vi, 

 305-484, x-xiv. 1889. 



Lapworth, Chas. On Graptolites from Dease 

 River, B. C. Can. Rec. Sci. iii, 141-142. 1888. 



Matthew, G. F. Illustrations of the Fauna 

 of the St. John Group. No. vii. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Can. x. Sect, iv, 95-109, pi. i. 1892. 



Matthew, G. F. On the Diflflision and Se- 

 quence of the Cambrian Faunas. Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Can. x, Sect, iv, 3-16. 



Scudder, Samuel H. Illustrations of the 

 Carboniferous Arachnida of North America, of 

 the orders Anthracomarti and Pedipalpi. Mem. 

 Bos. Soc. Nat. Hist, iv, 443^56, xxxix-xl. 

 1890. 



Scudder, Samuel H. The Insects of the Tri- 

 assic Beds at Fairplay, Colo. Mem. Bos. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist, iv, 457-472, xli-xlii. 1890. 



Ulrieh, E. O. Notes on Lower Silurian 

 Bryozoa. Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. Jan., 

 1890. Pp. 173-198. 



Whitfield, R. P. Contributions to Inverte- 

 brate Paleontologj-. I. Descriptions of Fossils 

 from the Palffiozoic Rocks of Ohio. Ann. N. Y. 

 Ac. Sci. V, 505-622, v-xvi. 1891. 



Williams, Henry S. An account of the Pro- 

 gress in North American Paleontology for the 

 years 1887, 1888. Smithsonian Report for 1888. 

 Pp. 261-326. 1890. 



Gilbert van Ingen. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, 248TH 

 MEETING, SATURDAY, NOV. 2. 



Me. F. V. CoviLLE spoke of the botanical 

 explorations of Thomas Coulter in Mexico and 

 California. 



Thomas Coulter, the Irish botanist, he said 

 was born in the year 1793, near Dundalk, Ire- 

 land. He received his A. B. degree at Dublin 

 University in 1817, and his A. M. in 1820. He 

 then went to Geneva, where he studied for about 

 three years under DeCandolle, and published a 

 monograph of the Dipsaceie in 1823. In 1824 

 he sailed for Mexico, where for six years he 

 made collections of plants at Real del Monte, 

 Zimapan, Zacatecas, Hermosillo and presumably 

 at intermediate points. In 1831 he reached 

 Monterey, California, where he spent the winter 

 with David Douglas, the Scotch botanist, and 

 in the following Spring he made a journey from 

 Monterey by way of San Luis Obispo, Santa 

 Ynez, Santa Barbara, San Buenaventura, San 

 Fernando, San Gabriel, Pala and San Felipe 

 to a point on the Colorado River eight miles 

 below its junction with the Gila, returning by 



