280 Scientific Intelligence. 
sembly, April, 1861. Albany, Aug. 1861.—This brochure consists of the 
usual report of the Chancellor, giving a statement of the condition of the 
State Cabinet of Natural History, and of the expenditures during t 
year for the purpose of increasing its extent and usefulness ; together 
with the following appendices :— 
“(A.) Catalogue of the additions made to the State Cabinet of Natural 
History, from January 1st, 1860, to January Ist, 1861.” 
“ (B.) G : 
rocks and fossils of New York, with a brief review of the succeeding for- 
mations, not known in that State. It ‘consists of about 65 pages of well 
written letter press, and is illustrated by 19 plates, containing some 220 
d wood cuts of the characteristic fossils of the New York rocks ;* to- 
gether with sections showing the order of succession of the formations of 
the name of Z. DeCuvi, in the July number of the Canadian Nat- 
uralist. If so, Mr. Billings’ name will have to take precedence, since of 
eg in which it was figured and described was issued in advance 
rof. Hall’s. Even if the two papers were exactly contemporaneous, 
Billings’ name would still be entitled to preference according to the usages 
of naturalists, since his description was accompanied by a good 
while that of Prof. Hall was not. bs 
ey the publication of the above, we have also received a woe 
tion of A ix (C. : i in two par 
; ppendix (C.) of the Regent’s Report, issued i in’ September. 
which we have not space to notice in detail. On page 53 we vase al 
ives a “Supplementary note to pages 95 and 96 of the 13th Annu” 
Repo of ts on the State Cabinet,” in which he materially oe < 
ifies his views in regard to the Goniatite Limestone at Rockford, India 
supplementary note mentioned above, he carries it up to the C aren 4 
Group. It will be remembered that in the September number of © 
tite Limestone showing that it could not be of the age of the M er 
described on page 84” ™ 
on—was by an oversight left without a name — 
These are mostly the same cuts used in the N. Y. Geological reports, and te 
ports of the Regents of the University. | jit 
& Worthen’s paper was in type in June, but was crowded out 0° 
@ press of other matter, and laid over until the Sept. numb)" 
