80 ; REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOSSIL BOTANY. 
CARRUTHERS, W. Remarks on the Fossils from the Railway Section 
Huyton. Abstract. Brit. Ass. Reports, 40th Meeting, p. 71. 
The author described in general terms a series of carboniferous fossils 
collected at Huyton by the Rev. H. Higgins 
Note on " Antholithes discovered by C. W. P. 
Esq. Abstract. Brit. Ass. Reports, 40th Meeting, p. 72. 
The specimens showed that Antholithes were the spikes of Cardio- 
carpon. 
Dawson, J. W. On Spore-cases in Coals. (Reprinted from ‘Silliman 
Journal,’ April, 1871.) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1871, pp. 321-3? 
The author figures some spore-cases from a brown bituminous sh 
Upper Devonian age from Kettle Point, Lake Huron, which he names” 
Sporangi = per siway , and he considers they belong to the species. 
und in the bed. His Sporangites glabra are * almost 
- without doubt e spore-cases of L. corrugatum." He has found spore- 
cases in many American coals, but he considers their presence as “ acci- 
dental rather than essential to coal-formatio 
The Fossil Plants of the Dewiies and Upper Silurian 
derum of Osinds; Montreal and London, 1871, p. 100, 
The Mos gives the results of his researches in these strata proseeu 
for several years, and here brought to a conclusion, so far as the access 
material will admit. He reports more than 120 species of land plants. 
The work is, with a few additions and some necessary changes, the d 
as the memoir read to the Royal Society in 1870, and now in its arc 
Twenty-six new species are named, mostly founded on very pef 
ls, and imperfectly described. These new species are included: 
the systematic list. 
On New Tree-ferns and other rw re the D 
nian. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvii. pp. 269-275, pl 
Abstract. Geol. Mag. vol. viii. p. 231 
Three Fern stems and some other fossils are described in this papet 
from the Devonian rocks of North America. 
On the Structure and Affinities of Sigillaria, per 
and Calamodendron. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvii. pp. 1 
X. 
ted to 
s OswALD. On the Cafbouiferouó Flora of Bear rer A 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxvii. p. 1; Ann. Mag. Neti = 
vol. vii. p. 175. found 
The author compares the flora of this island with the plants 
the Yellow Sandstones of Ireland, and concludes that they are of 1 
—— ages, and form a special group, for which he prop. 
Huu, EDWARD. Onte i red of the Ballycastle C 
Geological 
h Paleon 
Boe T Meli esce eo ice H. Baily. Journ. Roy 
