158 _—_ Serentifie Intelligence. 
C. Ribeiro has also published a memoir on flint and quartz im- 
plements from the Tertiary and agp = Si and Sado, in 
aA Memoirs of the Lisbon Academy of Scie 
ec of Jalisco, Mexico, and mes of the Vol- 
cano Ceboruco.—A detailed account of the Jalisco earthquake, of 
the 11th of Pebriiey: ed 7, shaking heavily the city of Guadala- 
jara, and of Ceboruco, voleano in the region, by a seid 
ommission, oubiedag of M. Iglesias, M. Barcena, and 
atute, is contained in the first volume of the bales del Minis- 
terio de Fomento de la Republica Mexicana, Tomo i, Febrero de 
1877 
9. West Rock at New Haven, Connecticut, not the termination 
of the Green Mountain range. ~The fidioulotia statement,* that 
the Green ee terminate in West Rock, is still afloat in the 
School Geographies studied in and out of New England. oe 
following corseiion of it appeared nearly sixty years since, 
mos Eaton’s “Index to the Geology of the a ate ae ” re 
103) a shin viens published at Troy, New York, i 
“It is very strange that several publications fess a ted the 
sout ae —— of this primitive range (the Green Mounsied 
n Wes , New Haven, which is greenstone resting on red 
flvcone "Such random guesses given as facts are very injurious 
to the science.’ 
Ill. Borany AND ZooLoey. 
1. Some points of Botanical Nomenclature.—The series of 
laws of nomenclature, revised and ded by Alph. DeCan- 
questions, all rising out of the way in which genera, their syno- 
yms, and some “ney are at dealt with or referred to 0 
the Genera Plantarum now in course of publication ; and he ve 
ay. addresses these questions to M. DeCando lle. The latter 
oo aos down the law: and the correspondence is print 
he Bulletin ue i  Sootbté Royale de Botanique a "Belgique, 
1876 » Pp. “ta 
. The iiculty ae which M. Cogniaux fell was not very for- 
midable, but it is one which a botanical writer has to settle, and 
which take if sides to be settled with unanimity, an and upon 
all ahs rely ace ept the principle. It may well satisfy us; for 
the principle is one which for many years we have strenuously 
maintained in this Journal. The fact is, that the name 0 
* See this Journal, III, x, 498, xi, 151, 
+ fonshisck with comments, i in this Steal July, 1868. 
