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Spiriferoids of the Lake Minnewauka section. Alberta [abstract] ; by 

 H. W. Shinier 112 



Contributions to the black shale problem [abstract] ; by Charles Butts. 113 



Papers on paleobotany 114 



Paleobotanical study of the coal-bearing rocks of the Raton Mesa 

 region of Colorado and New Mexico [abstract] ; by F. H. Knowlton. Ill 



Status of the study of the fossil floras of the Atlantic Coastal plain 

 [abstract] ; by Edward W. Berry 114 



Roots in the underclays of coals [abstract] ; by David White 114 



Coralline algae in an Ordovician dolomite [abstract] ; by Eliot Black- 

 welder 115 



Note on a process of fossilization in the Paleozoic lycopods [abstract] ; 

 by E. M. Kindle 115 



Preliminary correlation of the Cretaceous and Tertiary floras of 

 Alaska [abstract] ; by Arthur Hollick 116 



Minutes of sectional meeting of vertebrate paleontology 117 



The Yale expedition of 1912 [abstract] ; by R. S. Lull 117 



Relations of the TupaiidcB and of Eocene lemurs, especially Notharctus 

 [abstract] ; by W. K. Gregory 117 



Certain theoretical considerations affecting phylogeny and correlation 

 [abstract] ; by W. D. Matthew 118 



Homology of the "alisphenoid"' and "lachrymal" in recent and fossil 

 vertebrates [abstract] ; by W. K. Gregory 118 



Cuban fossil mammals : preliminary note [abstract] ; by W. D. Mat- 

 thew 118 



Devonian fishes of Missouri [abstract] ; by E. B. Branson. . . .► 119 



Brain structure of fossil fishes from the Caney shales [abstract] ; by 

 C. R. Eastman 119 



New Plesiosaurian genus from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Nebraska 



[abstract] ; by S. W. Williston and Roy L. Moodie , 120 



Register of the New Haven meeting, 1912 121 



Officers, correspondents, and members of the Paleontological Society 122 



Minutes of the Pacific Coast Section of the Paleontological Society 120 



Eocene of San Pedro Point, San Mateo County, California [abstract] ; 

 by Roy E. Dickerson , 126 



Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez and Tejon south 

 of Mount Diablo, California [abstract] ; by Roy E. Dickerson 127 



Eocene of the Coalinga-Cantua District. Fresno County. California 

 [abstract] ; by J. A. Taff k 127 



Suggested paleontologic correlation between Continental Miocene de- 

 posits of the Mohave region and marine Tertiary beds of San Joa- 

 quin Valley, California [abstract] ; by John C. Merriam and Robert 

 W. Pack 128 



The biogenetic law illustrated in the development of fossil cephalopods 

 [abstract] ; by James Perrin Smith ^ 129 



Faunal relations of the Upper Neocene in the Sargent oil fields, Cali- 

 fornia [abstract] ; by Bruce Martin .» 129 



Monterey series on the south side of Mount Diablo, California [ab- 

 stract] : by W. S. W. Kew and R. C. Stoner 129 



