134 Scientific Intelligence. 
such a document, with * sans ?” We will not believe that 
Mr. Hall thus intends to trifle with things too plain for comment. 
in were last we compared the tt sin pages (those which Me 
says he suppressed in November), a of which is now before 
us, with the XIIIth Report, we were ster startled to find such dis- 
crepancies in a public document, with nothing whatever to indicate when 
or why they were made. As stated in our critical notice, we “ could not 
nicest annoyance, and liability ny error, we cite the following ex- 
amples : 
e same fossil described ss Billings as coming from the Hamilton 
shales of Canada West, and there named Rhynchonella (2) Laura ; na 
is a aan n the Lend in the two sche Noe as > net bare no 0 
eae us fos Merete multicostata, Hatt, April, 1860. 
Bhynchonell (?) La Briutyes, May, 1860. 
This gives Mr. Hall a ‘ceil rie ey as judged from the dates on the 
covers of the two authorities, while r. Hall’s own admission he in 
Nov. 1860 changed the generic name +e om . Meri istella to Leiorhynchus— 
as appears also by a comparison of o early sheets already quoted, with 
the official issue of December follow 
A case still more evenly balanced 3 1s Phas of Goniatites Hyas, Hall, p- 
102. This species was published Nov. 24, 1860, by Meek & Worthen, 
as G. Lyoni (Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, Oct. 1860, p. 471). 
The Megambonia Lyoni, (n. s.) Hall, p- 110, is oe Semin in the 
last quoted paper of Meek & W Worthen, under the 
radiata. They have since made a new genus of it, raster the name 
Carpropsis. 
Again 2 tet ded a (n. s.) Hall, p. 111, was described by 
Prof. Swallow as S. Cooperensis, (n. s.) on p. 643 643, Trans. Acad, St. Louis, 
in the summer “of 1 1860. 
We might extend this list, but enough has been cited to show 
the inconveniences alluded to have actually occurred, and to justify ‘ti 
assertion made in March, “ that Prof, Hall has introduced into this pape? 
under new names se veral species which have been described by othet 
as 
authors 
aggrieved” by this th gives it importance, so much as the needles 
confusion and complexity in scientific nomenclature which thus arises. 
