118 Notices of Memoirs. 



Urb. Schlonbacli, who worked with Dr. A. Fritsch in field and 

 cabinet, from 1867 to 1870, on the subject-matters of this Mono- 

 graph, unfortunately died before its completion. 



Bibliography, characterization and comparison of species, their 

 local occurrence and distribution, are carefully treated of; and 

 sixteen plates of full, clear, and artistic lithographs of thirty-nine 

 out of fifty-five species described, of which seventeen are new, com- 

 plete this welcome addition to Cretaceous Paleeography, The genera 

 afi'ording the Bohemian species are Glyphiteuthis, Belemnites, Nauti- 

 lus, BhyncJiolithiis, Ammonites, Scapliites, Samites, Helicoceras, 

 Baculites, and Aptychus. T. E. J. 



VI. — Short Notices. 



Fossil Mtsiopods, etc. — In the Proceedings of the Dresden 

 "Isis" Society, 1872, p. 125, Prof, Dr, H. B, Geinitz describes some 

 interesting fossils from Saxony. (1) A Calaraite-like fossil from the 

 very old (perhaps Cambrian) schists of Weesenstein (pi. 1, fig, 1); 

 (2) Lingula BouauUi, Salter, in quartzite from the Upper Lansitz 

 (fig. 2) ; (3) a group of fossil Myriopods, with Wood (Araucarites), 

 in a siliceous fragment from the Eothliegende, near Chemnitz 

 {PalcBojulus dyadicus, Greinitz, fig, 4-7). Can Fischer de Waldheim's 

 " Spirolinites," in a piece of gravel flint, figured in his " Oryctologie 

 de Moscou," pi. 12, fig. 4, be related to Prof. Geinitz's fossil, or to 

 other Julidce ? 



Cretaceous Poltzoa and Fokaminifera. — In the 4th No. of 

 Part I. of Geinitz's "Das Elbthalgebirge in Sachsen" (Eocks of the 

 Elbe Valley in Saxony, 1872), pp. 97-134, Dr, A, E. Von Eeuss 

 describes numerous Bryozoa {Polyzoa) from the Lower Quader 

 (Cretaceous), illustrated in ten beautiful lithographic quarto plates, 

 from the Vienna State Printing-office ; also at pp, 134-140, some of 

 the Foraminifera from these beds, especially a fine Lituoline form 

 {Polypliragma crihrosum, p, 139, pi, 33, fig, 8 a-c) ; and a remarkably 

 large and interesting Foraminifer, which, long regarded as a 

 Polyzoa, has passed nnder various names in books, as " Ceriopora," 

 " Thalamopora," and " Monticulipora," but which Von Eeuss now 

 carefully works out {Thalmopora cribrosa, Goldf. sp,, p. 137, pi, 33, 

 figs. 11-15), and recognizes as the type of a new Foraminiferal family. 

 Indeed this species is not only of interest as attaining a length of an 

 inch and more, with proportionate thickness, but as exhibiting 

 characters of alliance with so many other genera, as Polytrema, 

 Carpenteria, and especially Cymhelopora, and through it with Planor- 

 hulina and other Botalince. The author points out that Thalamopora 

 is among the " perforate," what Dactylopora is among the " imper- 

 forate " Foraminifera. 



^PYOENis. — In the Transactions of the Bologna Academy of 

 Sciences, 1872, series 3rd, vol, ii. (pp, 141-165, plates xix,-xxiv,), 

 Prof, J. J. Bianconi gives further information on the femur, tibia, 



