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and next adds, under the line dorsals, 15, " at least to be added to 

 this series, 10," making the sum " 33." No correction of the pre- 

 ) the total number of cervical vertebrae is made 



or suggested. 



In the catalogue of works and memoirs on American Cretaceous 

 Reptiles, headed Literature of thk Subject (pp. 51, 52, 53), 

 Professor Cope has omitted to mention several highly import- 

 ant contributions by others : for example, J)r. Leidy's memoir of 

 1865, on Cretaceous Eeptiles of the United /States, a quarto of 135 

 pages, illustrated by 20 plates ; a paper by the same author, 07i 

 Masmosaurus (Proceedings of the Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 187i), 

 p. 9) ; another on Discosaurus and its allies (ibid., p. 18), and 

 another on Iladrosawrus and its allies (ibid., p. 67) ; also, the 

 following of Professor Marsh's papers : li'otice of some Neio 3Io- 

 sasauroid Eeptiles (this Journ , II, xlviii, 392, 1869) ; on a Neio 

 Impedes of Badrosaurus (ibid., Ill, iii, 301, 1872), and Note on 

 Rhinosanrus (ibid., Ill, iv, 147, 1872). Again, in his Synopsis of 

 the known Cretaceous Vertebrata of North America, constituting 

 Part III of the volume, several Cretaceous Reptiles described by 

 others are omitted, and also the following four species of Creta- 

 ceous birds described by Professor Marsh: Graculavus velox, oi 

 New Jersey (this Journal, III, iii. p. 353, 1872); Q. pumilus, of 

 New Jersey (ibid., p. 364) ; G. agilis, of Kansas (ibid., v, 1873), 

 and Palmotringa vagans, of New Jersey (ibid., iii, 366). J. n. d. 



5. Description of neio Spjecies of Fossil Plants from Alleghany 

 Co., Virginia; with remarks on the rocks seen along the Chesa- 

 peake and Ohio Railroad, near the White Sulphur Springs, Green- 

 brier Co., West Virgi?iia; by F. B. Meek. 19 pp. 8vo. Proceed- 

 ings of the Washington Philosophical Society. Read before the 

 Society, June 15, 1872. (Received Dec. 8, 1875).— The fossil 

 plants described by Mr. Meek are from Lewis's Tunnell, and occur 

 in the lower part of the Subcarboniferous, near its junction with 

 the upper Devonian. The species are LejAdodendron scobiniforme 

 M., Cyclopteris Lescuriana M., C. Virginiana M., C. Alleghani- 

 ensis M., besides an undetei-mined Stigmaria and some doubtful 

 Carpolithes. 



6. Coal plants of Tinkiako in Southern Shensi in China.— 

 Ad. Brongxiart has determined the following plants from the 

 southern part of Shensi, one of the western provinces of China 

 (Bull. Geol. Soc. France, 408, 1874): Pecopteris Whitbyensis, two 

 species of Sphenopters, a leaf of a Zamia near Zamites distans, 

 fragments of Lycopodites Williamsoni, a species of Palissya, wd 

 also Bayera dichotoma Fr. Braun. The species are nearest 

 to the Jurassic plants of Whitby, and not Carboniferous. Sub- 

 carboniferous fossils are described from the same region by 31.31. 

 Paul Fischer and Bayan (ibid., p. 409 and pi. 16), who report, from 

 shales, the following : Spirifer lineatus Mart sp., Athyris amhl- 

 g»a, Meekella Garnieri (n. sp.), Productus JDavidi (n. sp.), !'■ 

 custatus Sow., var ccelestis, and Bellerophon tangentialis Phill. 



