150 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. lYolY. 



PART II. 



PUBLICATION'S MADE IN BRITISH JS^OETH AMERICA, WEST 

 INDIES, AND EUROPE.*— By H. Alleyne Nicholson. 



Barrande, Joachim. Etat actuel cTes connaissauces acquises sur la faune primordiale. 

 [The actual conditiou of our kuowledge as to the Primordial Fauna. ] <^ Bull, de 

 la Soc. Geol. de France, 2« s€x., t. xvi, i)p. 516-546. 1859. 



A portion of tM3 memoir refers to the Primordial Group and its fossils in North America. 

 Barrande, Joachim. Observations sur I'esistence de la faune primordiale dans la 

 Chaine Cantabrique. [On the existence of the Primordial Fauna in the Canta- 

 hrian Mountains.] <^Ball. de la Soc. Geol. de France, 2« s€x., t. xvii, pp. 542-554. 

 1860. 



Eefers to and describes a Paradoxides found by Prof. W. B. Rogers near Boston, U. S. 



Barrande, Joachim. Assentiment de Prof. James Hall, et autres documents nouveaux 

 au sujet de la faune primordiale en Am6rique. [Assent of Prof. James HaU, and 

 other new documents on the subject of the Primordial Fauna of America. ] <^ Bull, 

 de la Soc. Geol. de France, 2« ser., t. xix, pp. 721-745. 1862. 



Bigsby, J. J. Thesaurus Devonico-Carhoniferns: The Flora and Fauna of the De- 

 vonian and Carboniferous Periods. The genera and sjjecies arranged in tabular 

 form, showing their horizons, recurrences, localities, and other facts. 8vo. 1878. 

 Relates in large part to the Devonian and Carboniferous fossils of North America. 



Brady, Henry B. Descrii)tion d'une nouvelle espece de Foraminifcre des conches Mio- 

 cfene de la Jamaique. <^A7in. de la Soc. Malacologlque de Belgique, t. xi, p. 15, 

 [original pagination not known to the writer]. 1876. 



Describes, under the name of Tinoporus pilaris, a new Poraminifer from the Miocene Tertiary 

 of Jamaica. 



DavTson, J. W. New Facts relating to Eozoon Canadense. <^ Canad. Naturalist, new 

 ser., vol. viii, pp. 282-285. 1878. 



Prom the Proceedings of the American Association for the Adoancement of Science, Buffalo 

 meeting, August, 1876. 



Desor, G. Note siar I'existence de coquilles marines des mers actuels dans le bassin 

 du lac Ontario (Canada) jusqu'a I'altitude de 310 pieds. [Note on the existence 

 of marine shells of existing species in the basin of Lake Ontario, up to elevations 

 of 310 feet.] <iBull. de la Soc. G4ol. de France, 2« s^r., t. viii, pp. 420-423. 1851. 



Etheridge, Robert. Palseontology of the Coasts of the Arctic Lands visited by the 

 late British Expedition under Captain Sir George Nares, K. N., K. C. B., F. E. S. 

 <^ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond., vol. xxxiv, x>p. 568-636, pis. xxv-xxix. 



A large number of invertebrate fossils fiom the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of 

 the Arctic regions are described in this important paper. The new species and vaiieties described 

 are Receptaculites areticus, Monograptus convolutus, his Tar. coj)pingeri, Halysites catenulatus, 

 var. feildeni and var. harti, Syringopora parallela, Zaphrentis offleyensis, Amplexus feildeni, 

 Pentamerus coppingeri, Strophodonta feildeni, Murchisonia latifasciata, Helicotoma naresii, Pla- 

 tyceras naticoides, all from the Silurian, and Spirifera aldrichi from the Devonian. Mr. E. Ethe- 

 ridge, Jun., appends a valuable bibliography of the Aictic fossil Polyzoa ; and there is also a table 

 showing the geographical distribution of the Polar Paljeozoio fossils. 



Geinitz, H. B. Sur les Graptolites. [On Grax>tolites.] <^ BuU.de la Soc. Geol.de 

 France, 2^ s^r. , t. ix, pp. 186-188. 1851. 



Graptolithus gracilis, Hall, and G. hallianus, Proufc, with some other forms, are regarded by the 

 author as being Sertularians rather than true Grraptolites. 



* The writer takes this opi^ortunity of returning his best thanks to his friends E. 

 Etheridge, Esq., Jun., and E. BuUeu Newton, Esq., from whom he has received kind 

 assistance in the prejjaration of the following list. Dr. Scudder has also been good 

 enough to supply references to additional publications of his own, either omitted in 

 the Catalogue or not published at the time of its api)earance, and "the help thus 

 afforded is here gratefully acknowledged. 



