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like S. cuspidatus, have a clearly punctate structure, and hence probably 
belong to the group Syringothyris. 
I have also just read a letter from Mr. Davidson, written to Mr. 
Worthen, in which he quotes, from a letter to him from Dr. Carpenter, a 
paragraph giving the results of his pelaey of specimens of Syrin- 
gothyris, and of the same Irish shell examined by me (and at one time 
supposed to be Spirifer cuspidatus), These cabin ae were sent over by 
Mr. Worthen at Mr. Davidson’s request some little time back. Dr. Car- 
penter says he finds the Syringothyris (that from Floyd Co., Indiana, I 
suppose) distinctly punctate, the punctures being as I stated, small and 
seattering. The chippings from the Irish specimen, sent over to Mr. 
‘Worthen with the name S. cuspidatus attached, Dr. Carpenter also 
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found to be punctured, though the punctures are not so clearly seen as 
in the other. Chippings of S. subcuspidatus Hall, sent by Mr. Wor- 
then, he says are not in a condition to show the structure. 
At the time of writing, Dr. Carpenter had evidently not received a 
package of chippings I had sent him, ue specimens of S. subcus- 
pidatus showing the punctures clearly. He says these examinations of 
believes belong to this group ager scion however, that the 
true S. cuspidatus is an a poeta ee which you will remember I 
had not supposed to be the I never doubted or oe the ac- 
years 1862 rf 1863; by RarwazLt Pumps ELLY, 144 pp, 4to, with 9 
lates. Lous gets City. Published by the Smithsonian le A 
ing No. 202 of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.—. 
xli of this Journal, ie. Pumpelly gave a very brief notice of the ssiuhe 
pal results to which he had arrived after his explorations in China an 
apan. The volume cauae contains a full account of his very interesting 
observations. It treats of the General Outlines of Eastern Asia; 1 
Mineral Productions of China; and scar an Appendix, Dr. New: 
Co . 
sults of Mr. Edwards’s microscopic examination of some Japanese 
"the Sia earths and other deposits of China and oe 
* In a paper on certain types of the Spiriferide published in th ~ pansies of 
the American Palinwopatenl Society for 1866, a nd = sented to that Society in May 
. of 1866, Mr. J. Hall presents fac vatirmice my observations, communicated in @ 
paper read before the Philad. ead Nat. Sci, in Dec. 1865, and published Feb. 
1866, "in which the presence of a ee ee ee aes 
with the internal of Byringothyris, were first announced. He, 
no allusion to my investigations, o f which he certainly was not 
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