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the recent period, but I have not yet made out a list of all the 

 extinct genera. As it is interesting to note the occurrence of cor- 

 responding extinct genera in America and India of the same Cre- 

 taceous horizon, 1 would remark that in Stoliezka's Paleontology 

 of Southern India, furs. 1 to 5, pi. vi, represent the aenus Vyclo- 

 thyris, though referred to Caclan.eria by Stoliezka ; and fiVs.' l 7- 

 19 {Cytheria Stol.) belong'to Aphrodina Con. Both of these 

 genera are <■oninn.ii in North Carolina. 



5. Strnmutopora. — In the number of the Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History for January, Stromatopora concentric i is pro- 

 nounced a Sponge" in a paper on a new genus of Cretaceous Hex- 

 actinelli I Spouses, by W. J. Sollas. A second paper, by H. J. 



Carter, treats of the Vl relationship of IL/.lrurt; ,,io. l>„,-k,-ri«, 



and St,- ^ lll t,, ! .,,,- ll . \ !, U s making the genus, or part of it. llvdroid in 

 its relations, and so removing it, far from the Protozoans.* 



6. Geological Survey of Victoria. Report, of Progress, by R. 

 Brough Smyth.— The most important Report in t hi- volume is a 

 kmg one on the Devonian rocks of North Gippsland, by A. W. 



7. Fossil Elephant in Washington Territory; by Wit. O. Matz- 

 gee. (From a letter dated Duv'town. Washington Territory. July 

 *. i^o.l-The bones include a pelvis, jaw bone, tusk, and other-. 



the task i- jaw bone is two feet wide, 



one tooth on a side, measuring at top ten inches by three. The 



discoverer t i - of at least five indi- 



'eh'i., u tlVbol!', ■■>■ Cretace- 



- 

 of Vancouver, or the Chico "roup of California. No Vancouver 

 *P<''cs i- found timou..- thetn. They may belong just below the 

 <-/eiaceous. Out oft! -ks, three— Ammonites 



S iczi !nd iuceOa Piochii, are well-known 



TtnSiJEn JVew Guinea.-Mr. C. S. Wh.kixsox, 

 •>t the Ceological Survey of New South Wales, after an exatmna- 



«»» <>f specimens obtained in New Guinea by William MacLeay, 

 Esq., announces the occur, f Galea i- J 



Ft he E«MrJfiwM,-a fact of 

 mud. int i ., ,i u ,., ,ds have yet been re- 



ported from i:,- t , d • »« found in Victoria 



