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temporary faunas of the Pacific slope have been treated in publications 

 of the University of California. Turning to the African continent, the 

 writings of Dr. Broom^" and others have enlightened us with regard to 

 the fossil fishes of the Upper Karroo beds. 



Jurassic fishes have continued to receive attention during the past 

 decade, though for the most part in the form of short papers, like those 

 of Dr. A. Smith Woodward and others in England. A notable contri- 

 bution on the fauna of the lithographic limestone of Bavaria is that by 

 Dr. Erich Heineke.^^ Eeference may be made in this connection to Dr. 

 Walther's interesting discussion of the Solenhofen fauna, to be found in 

 the anniversary volume in honor of Professor Ernst Haeckel. 



The Wealden fishes of Belgium have recently been studied by the 

 veteran Scottish ichthyologist, Dr. E. H. Traquair.^^ Of the first order 

 of importance is the splendid monograph on British Cretaceous Fishes, 

 by Dr. A. S. Woodward, published by the Palaeontographical Society. To 

 the same author students are indebted for a number of illuminating 

 paper& on the Cretaceous fishes of Lebanon and other localities, as well 

 as for the concluding volume of that most indispensable of all works on 

 the subject of fossil fishes, the Catalogue of the British Museum (vol. 

 iv, 1901). The researches of Professor F. Priem, of Paris, have ex- 

 tended not only over the Cretaceous fish faunas of France, northern 

 Africa, and Persia (1908), but we are indebted to him and to Dr. 

 Maurice Leriche, of Lille, for a revision of the extensive Tertiary fish 

 faunas of Franco-Belgian territory. In this country the only recent 

 publication on Cretaceous fishes is contained in Bulletin 4 of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of New Jerse}^, the full title of the paper being '^A De- 

 scription of the Fossil Fish Remains of the Cretaceous, Eocene and 

 Miocene Formations of New Jersey," by Henry W. Fowler (1911). 



The recent literature of Tertiary fishes is not very extensive, the 

 principal memoirs being those by Priem and Leriche, already refen-ed 

 to. The Eocene fish fauna of Monte Bolca, in northern Italy, has re- 

 ceived renewed attention on the part of several writers, one of the 

 memoirs dealing with the type specimens in the Paris Museum; and 

 several contributions have appeared on the Tertiary fishes of northern 

 Africa (Priem, Stromer), Australia (Chapman), and South America 

 (Woodward, Sangiorgi, De-Alessandri). In this country, the Eocene 



" R. Broom : The fossil fishes of the Upper Karroo Beds of South Africa. Ann. South 

 African Mus., 1901, vol. 7, pp. 251-269. 



" E. Heineke : Die Ganoiden und Teleostier des lithographischen Schlefers von Nusp- 

 llngen. Geol. Pal. Abhandl., 1907, vol. xii, pp. 159-214. 



"Les poissons vi^ealdiens de Bernissart. M6m. Mus. Roy. d'HIst. Nat. Belg., 1911 

 (Ann6e 1910), vol. vi, pp. 1-65. 



