Geology and Natural History. 217 
that further investigation deta show this Crawford Co, sandstone 
to belong to the Coal-measur 
I observed the Ca dulerpites first, about the year 1859, in Ran- 
dolph Co., Mo., occurring in hard sandstone and sandy limestone 
of the Coal-measures, and not very remote from the base of the 
Lower series: it was there about five feet below a four-foot bed 
of coal. I have observed traces of the same, here at Pleasant Hill, 
er Coal-measure sandstone and sandy limestone, and at one 
— locality in Missouri—I think probably in Lafayette Co. In 
1868, I discovered Cawlerpites in a shaly sandstone of the Upper 
iscasarcs in Montgomery Co., Illinois, above the horizon of 
13, 
8 On oe and Subcarboniferous Fossils in Monon- 
galia Co., West Virginia ; by F. B. Murex (Report Regents of 
University, Ww. Virg ini ne aes Meek describes in this paper some 
hew species, viz Ms omen obsoletus, of the Lower Coal-measures, 
Nuewla anodonto ides, Yoldia pie sont and Y, a the Che of 
the Coal-measures, showing, as rema 
lived on through a great elie of t time, and scene ct that the 
= ate and other physical conditions of the era must have 
ne markably uniform 
the — atigraphie Relation of the Orders of Reptilia 
Prot Epwarp D, Corr.*—The stra ———. relation of the aes 
- Reptiles is is shown in the following table: 
Present—Rhynchocephalia: Crocodilia; Testu - Lacertilia; Ophidia. 
_ Pliocene—Crocodilias Testa idinata Lacertilia ;  Ophiaia, 
ilia ; Ophidia. 
"La rtilia; Ophidia. Z : 
sar seh anergy sare Cocmodiin: Sauropterygia; Testudinata ; 
Lacertilia ; Pythonomorpha. 
* 
th 
From a Memoir on the ate ac < — road the sags page wii : 
Reptilia and the 
the app a 194, “oe preceding page of the memoir the author argues that 
posed Lacertilia of the Permian are all Rhynchocephalia. 
