148 Scientific Intelligence. 
A notice of the fossils of the — els, including its Human 
vere is deferred to another num 
2. Richthofen’s Theory of the Some, in the light of the Deposits 
of th ri; by J. E. Topp, of Tabor, Iowa.—This memoir, 
read before the last —e of the American grin er se is a 
small size of the Limneas and absen of Papese in the latitude 
feet. 
Tertiary in Massachusetts Bay.—Many fossiliferous bowl- 
ders have sioch found by Mr. Warren Upnam, as reported by 
ir. W. O. Cro 
a, o 
bly A. actinchite Morton, a Plicatula near P. 2 aap osa Conrad, 
of the Alabama Eocene, ‘beans several other s see of shells, 
and remains inoderms and a = apa coral, Mr. 
Crosby concludes that the Tertiary formation, which was the 
source of these fossils, now forms the floor of our Bay 
somewhere to the northward of Cape Cod. These facts derive 
additional interest from a com n with those announced by 
Professor Verrill, in the number of eR Journal for ree last, 
with regard to submarine Tertiary along George’s and 
Grand Bank. The species found are rey different 
4, Report of Progress in the Juniata District on the Fossil 
Tron Ore-beds of Middle Pennytoania, by Joun H. Dewees; 
d East hs 
cu Prof, L ey Director of the Survey ving a pole 
sketch -— the formations ia which iron-bearin a s occur, the 
Marcellus. reellus, Mr. Dewees presents pikes teams Aches el dowels of the 
stratification, Excellent sections of the folded rocks are given 
