498 >Scient:jic Inielligence. 



having been found in the layers just above those containing the 

 leaves instead of those below. Further we have to aomit that 

 the stratigraphical evidence is far from demonstrating in either 

 region that the plant-bearing beds are not Upper Jurassic. De- 

 Candolle's charge is hence not far from right, and should be set 

 aside, if possible, by further observations. Looking over Dr. Hay- 

 den's Report for 1874 (noticed above) I find that the Lignitic of 

 the Dakota group (Lowest Cretaceous) is stated by Dr. Peale to 

 have been observed at the mouth of the Gunnison to be underlaid 

 by beds which contain a Cretaceous Scaphite^ and Mr. Peale also 

 mentions that Dr. Newberry speaks of the Cretaceous Gryphea 

 Pitcheri being associated with the lower Lignitic beds of the 

 same i)eriod. These appear to be pertinent facts. But more are 



14. Swiss Paleontological Society. — This society was foimded 

 in 1874, upon the plan of the Paleontographical Society, for the 

 purpose of publishing the paleontological works of its members, 

 especially those concerning Switzerland, and also of continuing, 

 in a slightly different form, Pictet's Materiaux pour la Palmntol- 

 ogie Suisse. The volume for 1875 has just been distributed. It 

 includes the second part of a monograph of Pholadomya, with 14 

 plates, by C. Mcesch ; desciiptions of Jurassic fossils from Savoy, 

 and remarks upon their vertical distribution, with 7 plates, by E. 

 Favre ; further contributions toward distinguishing the Horses of 

 the Quaternary, with 3 plates, by E. Rtltimeyer ; description of a 

 lower jaw of" Binotherium Pavaricum, with 1 plate, by Is. 

 Bachmann ; description of Tertiary Echinoderms of Switzerland, 

 with 8 plates, by P. de Loriol. The volume for 1874 contained 

 the first part of Moesch's monograph of Pholadomya, with 26 

 plates, and a description of fossil plants from Sumatra, with 3 

 plates, by O. Heer. The society announces, as in preparation, 

 sevei-al papers upon fossil Mollusks, Crinoids, Echinoids, Nummu- 

 lites. Ammonites, Turtles, Stags, etc. The work deserves better 

 support than it has yet received. Only six American names are 

 upon the list of members. The annual subscription is 2o francs, 

 payable in advance to Prof Eugene Renevier, Lausanne, Canton 

 de Vaud, Switzerland. 



» Jersey.— Annual Report of the 



Trenton, N. J., 1875.- _^,„„ „ ^ 



facts. It is accompanied by a large map showing the triangula- 

 tionsoftheU. S. Coast Survey, including the primary stations 

 selected in 1875. 



16. Eocene Corals of Itali,.—T\\e memoir of Prof d'Archiardi, 

 of Pisa, on the Eocene corals of Friuli, has been issued as a sepa- 

 rate work. It contains 1 00 pages of text, in 8vo, (descnbmg a 

 large number of species,) and 16 beautiful lithographic plates. 

 The deposits of Friuli, as described by Prof Taramelli, are a 

 marly limestone containing echinoderms, and, below this, beds ot 



