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new species of the genus Lingula.t In his review of the geology 
of this region, Professor Hartt remarks:t{ “The great repository 
ich ppears rm 
s a few inches in thickness, interstratified with the shales in 
Th . 
their upper part. [N. B.—These shales are probably not the 
equivalents of those previously mentioned, for they are exposed 
survey of the whole area. The importance of the results obtained 
by them, as reported in a recent letter from Mr. Derby, will be 
better understood after a brief review of the general ph siognomy 
of the district under consideration, 
The villa of Monte Alegre (upper town) is perched upon the 
top of a comparatively level block of horizontal Tertiary 
li rt ical Geography of the 
Ereré-Monte Alegre District, ty Exiauer Of Deo. fonts on ae 
pedition, in Bulletin of the Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., January, 1874. eee 
tL. na Rathbun, and L. Stawntoniana Rathbun, figured and described i 
his paper “Qn the Devonian Brachiopoda of Ereré, Province of Paré, Brazil, in 
Bull. Tid, ~~ Nat. Sci., January, 1874, p. 259. 
