494 Scientific Intelligence. 
been finished, while those of the Corals were in progress. Dur 
ing that yea r the Legislature of the State authorized the pitsiio: 
tion, by the albertype process, of a hundred copies of each of one 
hundred of the plates, ree the pape bi of thirty additional 
lates. Through this means the new volume of plates, with the 
explanatory pages of ext; vias been pins All the plates it con- 
tains were photographed from excellent original drawings, except- 
ing part of those of the Corals which are direct from the specimens. 
The most of the drawings were made under the supervision of 
Mr. R. P. Whitfield, and many of 1 those of the Gasteropoda and 
The plates form a beautiful volume, and, with the explanations 
accompanying each, they ‘scence even aw ork which will be of great 
Geole shogieid Sur rvey h made him an reenter in that ieee 
ond eee conferred oak in order to avoid any duplication of 
ad io 
Pictessr Hall states that to complete the Devonian Cephalo- 
a, the number of plates—here forty—will have to be doubled, 
the plathe of the Crustacea will need some additions, and those of 
the Corals, here over forty, will have to be greatly increased in 
number. Prof. Hall’s eee have been of vast service to Ameri- 
can negate and of great honor to the State under whose 
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4, Twenty-cig. hth Annual Report of the New Yu orks State 
Museum of Natural History, by the apes of the University of 
the State of New York. 100 pages, 8vo, with 34 plates. Trans- 
mitted to the Legislature, March 30, 18 75. Albany, 1875.—This 
eport, whose contents are mentioned on page 432, is one of special 
paleontologic eal value. The chief article is by Prof, Hall, and 
consists of plates and their os ae te illustrating “the fauna 
of the iets Group in Central Indian e number of plates 
is thirt r-tW e figures include s eid of fossil Sponges, 
by the Sake A serait C. HL. Peck. T e new Create ioualle de- 
scribed by C. D. Walcott are of the iter stig: Concho- 
os ee patelliform shell), Bathyuras whe Asaphu 
on some new sections of Trilobites from ‘the Trenton 
chee and meer dose of new sp oes of fossils, by C. D. 
Watcorr, 22 pp. 8vo, with one plate. Published i in "advance of 
the Rep. N. Y. State Musenm, Sept. 20, 1877.—In this paper Mr. 
Walcott gives an account of the discov. ery of articulated append- 
