Mineralogy and Geology. 127 
No one can turn over the leaves of this volume without a feeling of 
seuncnth regret that death should have brought the author's labors to 
so untimely a close; nor without a sense of peter towards Mr. Bouvé 
for the pb of the unfinished work of his frie 
ce of some new — of Fossils, from a locality of the Niagara 
group in -Jukons, with a list of identi oe 7 from the same place ; 
by Prof. Jamzs Hatt. Published May 2, 1863. 34 pp. 8vo. Abstract 
read before the Albany Institute, April ast 1862. 
te Ctenodipterinen des Devonischen Systems ; ; von Dr, CaristT1aAn 
Hetwricu Panper. 66 pp. 4to. St. Petersburg, 1858.— Ueber die 
Saurodipterinen, Dendrodonten, Glyptolepiden, und Cheirolepiden des 
Devonischen Systems ; yon Curtst1an Hetyricn Panver. 90 pp. 4to, 
with 17 te ne plates in folio. St. ae 1860.—These works 
Owen, F.R.S.—The author details the citotmetances, pe heater with the 
discovery of the fossil remains, with the impressions of feathers, in the 
Lithographic slates of Beleshhotes, of the Oxfordian or Corallian stage of 
the Oolitic period, and of the acquisition for the British Museum of the 
specimen which forms the subject of his paper. 
__ The exposed parts of the skeleton are—the lower portion of the fur- 
— ¢culum; part of the left os innominatum; nineteen caudal vertebrx in a 
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se 
— humeri, and antibrachial bones; parts of the carpus an ost) 
_ with two unguiculate phalanges, probably belonging to the right wing ; 
both femora and tibize, and the bones —* the right foot; ir 
the quill-feathers radiating fan-wise from each me us, and diverging in 
pairs from each side of the long wei sle tail. The above parts in- 
_ that of a rook. The several: bones, with their impressions hose of 
_ the feathers, are described, and the bones are compared a wick their homo- 
_ logues in different Birds and in Pterodactyls: whence it appears that, 
with the Soupsice of the caudal region of the vertebral column, and ap- 
ndaeted a biunguiculate manus, with a less confluent condition of the 
_ Metacarpus, the preserved parts of the skeleton of the feathered animal 
accord with the ornithic modifications of the vertebrate skeleton. The 
main departure therefrom is ina part of that skeleton _most subject to 
. respo' 
_ number with the vertebra, diverging therefrom at an nner of 45° back- 
ward, ing more acute near the end, and the last pair extending 
_ ‘Nearly parallel with, and 34 inches beyond, ‘the last caudal vertebra. 
- feathered tail is 11 inches long and 3} inches broad, with an obtusely 
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