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be a distinct genus, merely from inspecting Phillips’s figures of imperfect 
specimens, The only question, in the opinion of the writer, respecting 
the name Gilberisocrinus, is whether it may not have to give way to the 
older name Ol/ucrinus Cumberland, 1826. If de Koninck, Pictet and 
others are right in the opinion that Ol/acrinus was founded upon one of 
the same types as Gilbertsocrinus Phillips, 1836, then Cumberland’s 
name must take precedence, and our American species described under 
the names Zrematocrinus and Goniasteroidocrinus will have to take the 
names Ollacrinus tuberosus, O. fiscellus, O. typus, O. papillatus, O, robus- 
tus, O. tuberculosus, O. reticulatus, &e. 
At the end of the catalogue under review the author states in a note, 
the Caliocrinus Meek & Worthen, recently proposed for a section of 
Actinocrinus, would have to be changed, because Celiocrinus had been 
tive name at all. 
Geologists and paleontologists will certainly feel under many obliga- 
tions to Dr. Shumard for the preparation of these useful lists, which will 
so materially facilitate their investigations; and if all cannot agree with 
him in every particular, it will, we think, be generally conceded that he 
has performed the task with skill and impartiality, M. 
8. On the deposit of Rock Salt at New Iberia, Louisiana; by Prof. | 
Ricuarp Owen.—Prof. Owen stated that having heard various accounts 
: is plantation, “La Petite Ance,.” distant in a 
southwest direction from ag al : 
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proving a good brine, Mr. Marsh boiled it down and made considerable 
quantities of salt, hen, however, the demand for salt became greater, 
at the breaking out of the war, Mr. Marsh’s son requ permission to 
