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also there is a aL ones of a humerus of a bird, and several worn 
teeth of a peccary. Besides these there are specimens which m 
be regarded as rchaectatinto of the following undescribed specie, 
Protocamelus Virginiensis. Represented by the lower last 
premolar, and the first and last molars of an animal about the size 
of the existing Lama, and Sturitiediate in size to Protocamelus 
occidentalis and P. pruetite of the tertiary of the Niobrara river, 
on 
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autoga (Protautoga) conidens. Represented by a premax- 
illary with teeth, and sane on of another with the first tooth, The 
teeth is the same as in the Black Fish. One of the specimens 
contains the base of the first large tooth, and a row te ind of 
seven other teeth. he other specimen contains the first large 
tooth, which is nearly half an inch in length, but proportiomataly 
more robust than in the Black Fish. 
Acipenser ornatus. Founded on a dorso-lateral plate indi- 
cating an extinct species of sturgeon of medium size. The len th 
or height of the plate is about 24 inches; its breadth along the 
cage is an inch and three-fourths. aes A cad. N. 8. Phil., 1872. 
Architarbus subovalis, Seudder’s species, Architarbus rotundatus 
was found in an iron-stone nedule at Mazon Creek, near Morris, 
rundy Co., Illinois, and is described and mh in the 3d volume 
of Worthen’s Illinois Geological i (18 
11. A Monograph of the “British Fossil Sevan art to 
order Merostomata ; ENRY Woopwarp. (Printed for 
the British Paleontological Society). Part IV of this i valu- 
able monograph was published during the past year. It contains 
oon pase of species of Stylonurus, Eurypterus and Hemiaspis, 
with wood-cuts and several Lthossaphic plates, giving fall-siees 
Se econ of these remarkable species. Hurypterus ? (Arth- 
ura) ferose of Salter, from the nodules in the Coal-measures 
of Tipton, Staffordshire, is probably, according to Woodward, 4 
ee Tage of bro sue Buphoberia of Meek and Worthen. 
. Naum ism.—In the December number, — 
1872, of the Jahrbuch fr Mineralogie und Palaontologie of 
