448 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
BOOK IN @ii@ias) 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALZONTOLOGY, Nos. 2-8: By C. A. White, M. D.: Extracted 
from 12th Annual Report of U. S. Geological Surveys of ‘Territories. 
printed July, 1880. Text 171 pages, plates 42. 
This is one among the most valuable contributions to Paleontology yet 
issued from the Government printing office. 
The plates are well executed and from my own observation are faithful copies 
of the organic remains figured, and embrace 18 plates of Cretaceous, 1 of Ter- 
tiary, 11 Laramie, 2 Triassic, 4 Carboniferous, 2 Jurassic, 3 of Sub-carboniferous 
and 1 of Coal Measure fossils. 
As the Carboniferous and Coal Measure fossils interest us most, I will 
briefly note their descriptions. 
Pl. 36, fig. 1, Productus giganteus. The figure calls to mind that this well 
known European fossil, from the mountain limestone of England and Russia, has 
heretofore been unknown in America. The figured specimen was collected by 
M. L. Kumlein, of U. S. fish commission, from the valley of McCloud river, 
Shasta Co., Cal. The transverse diameter of specimen measured five and a half 
inches across the hinge border. Its associated fossils were typical carboniferous 
(coal measure) fossils. Prof. White says that it is remarkable that this fossil has 
only been found on the western border of the continent and not the eastern. We 
know that most of the central portion and eastern border have becn carefully 
looked over for new fossils and rare ones. 
Plates 39 and 4o are of sub-carboniferous fossils, chiefly corals obtained from 
the top beds of what is known in Missouri geology as the Chouteau limestone, 
most of them being new and very interesting species. Some are from Iowa, but 
they are chiefly from Sedalia, Mo. A“ichilenia placenta White, Michelinia expansa 
White, Chonophyllum; Sedalience White and Lithostrotion Mycrostytum White, were 
obtained from Sedalia and are all new species. Others found in the same rocks 
at Sedalia, which have also been elsewhere found and here figured, are Lopho- 
phyllum expansum, Hadrophyllum glans, Zaphreutis Calceola, Z. elliptica. 
These fossils were chiefly obtained from a buff or drab shale at the top of 
the Chouteau limestone and just beneath the Burlington limestone. I have also 
occasionally found them lying loose on the hills of Pettis, Benton, St. Clair and 
Cedar counties, and they may also, probably, be found in other counties of South 
Missouri. 
The best locality for finding these corals at Sedalia was an apparently limited 
area now exhausted. The Zaphreutiform corals can still be obtained there. I 
had noticed this peculiarly interesting locality at Sedalia five years ago, and at that 
time obtained some very fine specimens from the quarries. The thick brownish- 
gray Burlington beds appear in fragmentary strata overlaid in most places by broken 
