Makch 4, 1904.] 



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described proving this formation to be con- 

 temporaneous with, that of Cerin in the Bugey, 

 which is referred by Lapparent and Haug to 

 the summit of the Virgulien. Professor 

 Sauvage,* the eminent director of the Boul- 

 ogne Museum, now gives us an account of the 

 piscine fauna so far as known from the new 

 locality, which comprises in all thirteen spe- 

 cies. The more important of these are illus- 

 trated in four photographic plates, amongst 

 the number being a supposed ehimseroid egg- 

 case, certainly a very rare petrifaction. It 

 is also interesting to note the presence of 

 PalcBobatrachus and ichthyosaurs in these 

 beds. 



FURTHER LIGHT ON THE TREMATASPID.*;. 



In an interesting memoir of thirty-three 

 pages published by the St. Petersburg Acad- 

 emy, Professor William Patten.f of Dart- 

 mouth, discusses the structure and classifica- 

 tion of the primitive family of ostraeaphores 

 known as the Tremataspidse. He describes 

 with painstaking minutiae the cephalic shield 

 of Tremataspis schmidti, illustrating the same 

 with two excellent plates. Our knowledge of 

 this form has been increased by Patten's 

 studies in several important particulars, such 

 as regards the sensory canal system, arrange- 

 ment of ventral plates, and number of in- 

 cisions which are commonly regarded as 

 branchial openings, but are interpreted by 

 Patten as having served for the attachment 

 of swimming appendages. Professor Patten's 

 views in regard to arthropod affinities of os- 

 tracophores have recently been discussed by 

 Dr. O. Jaekel in the Zeitschrift der deutschen 

 geologischen Oesellschaft, and by the reviewer 

 in the American Naturalist. 



C. E. Eastman. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The University of Pennsylvania has con- 

 ferred its Doctorate of Science on William 



* ' Noticia sobre los Peees de la Caliza litogrSfica 

 de la Provincia de Lgrida,' by H. E. Sauvage. 

 Mem. B. Acad, de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, 

 Vol. rv., No. 35, 1903. 



t ' On the Structure and Classification of the 

 Tremataspidac,' by William Patten, M6ni. Acad. 

 Imp. Sci. St. Petersi., Vol. XIII., No. 5, 1903. 



Healey Dall, of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 and the U. S. National Museum. 



Dr. Charles S. Minot, of Harvard Medical 

 School, and Dr. Pranklin P. Mall, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, have been made mem- 

 bers of the commission for Neurological Ee- 

 search, appointed by the International Asso- 

 ciation of Academies. 



Edinburgh University will confer the 

 honorary LL.D. on Dr. Alexander Macalister, 

 professor of anatomy at Cambridge, and on 

 Dr. Hannis Taylor, professor of constitutional 

 and international law at Columbian University. 



St. Andrews University will confer the 

 degree of LL.D. on Dr. J. N. Langley, pro- 

 fessor of physiology at Cambridge University. 



The Erench Geographical Society has 

 awarded its great gold medal for 1904 to Sven 

 Hedin, the Swedish explorer. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, has been 

 elected a member of the Swedish Medical 

 Association. 



Arrangements are being made to celebrate 

 the seventieth birthday of Professor Hugo 

 Schiff, the Italian chemist. 



President Roosevelt has received accept- 

 ances from five of those appointed as members 

 of the Isthmian Canal Commission, namely, 

 Eear Admiral John G. Walker, United States 

 Navy, retired; Gen. George W. Davis, United 

 States Army, retired; Col. Erank Hecker, of 

 Detroit, director of transportation during the 

 Spanish-American war ; William Barclay Par- 

 sons, engineer of the New York subway, and 

 William H. Burr, professor of engineering at 

 Columbia University. 



The Eoyal Commission on London Traific 

 have nominated Sir John Wolfe Barry, one of 

 the royal commissioners. Sir Benjamin Baker 

 and Mr. W. Barclay Parsons, consulting engi- 

 neer to the Board of Eapid Transit Eail- 

 road Commissioners of New York, to advise 

 the commission on certain important technical 

 questions connected with locomotion and 

 transport in London. 



Dr. James Craufoed Dunlop has been ap- 

 pointed superintendent of statistics in the 

 oifice of the registrar-general for Scotland, in 

 place of the late Dr. Blair Cunyngham. 



