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the Rocky Mountains, than East of them. In Southern Utah, (just where 
Marcou claims there are no cretaceous rocks) he found beautiful expo- 
sures of 4000 feet thickness of strata of that age, with abundant fossils, 
both animal and vegetable. The bones of a huge Saurian are among 
Dr. Newberry’s novelties. 
We hope in our next Number to be able to give a more exact state- 
ment of Dr, Newberry’s important discoveries. 
Rumors reach us of other and evén more startling geological dis- 
coveries in the extreme West and North, which we are not at liberty to 
name at present, but which ere long will be announced, from the proper 
authority. 
8, Discovery of Devonian rocks and fossils in Wisconsin. (Private com- 
munication to the editors.)}—At a late meeting of the Milwaukee Geo- 
logical Club or Association, Mr. I. A. Lapham announced the discovery 
of rocks:near Milwaukee, equivalent to the Devonian (Old Red Sand- 
these remains overlies the Niagara group, and is the uppermost of the 
* im series yet observed in Wisconsin. 
- and teeth of shark, (fragments of some teeth indicating a length of seven 
Ga es . . 
llusca 
_ nents and seeds of dicotyledonous plants, &c. 
5 The New Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge, is 
: aia rapid progress. One wing is nearly ready to receive collections. 
es ring i : 
ing an occasion for display. Besides a superb suit of fossi] Crustacea, 
4SsIZ was so fortunate as to purchase at Heidleburg the collection of 
ils from which Bronn’s Lethaea geognostica was composed. This col- 
lection contains the original specimens of the first and most important 
wniters on Paleontol : 
Another important addition to the new museum has been made by a 
sea Captain, who has just brought from Penang and Singapore some 
tee thousand specimens of fish, crustacea, and a most béautiful and 
choice collection of zoophytes. 53 
8. Witiam P. Buaxs, Esq. the geologist, has assumed the editor- 
. ship of the Mixing Magazine, a monthly heretofore published in New 
_ York. Under his direction this Journal will undoubtedly become a 
: ‘© exponent of the important interests it represents. 
1. Prof. Wa. S. Cuavvexer, lately of the U.S. Naval Academy, at 
\nnapolis, has accepted the Chair of Mathematics in the University of 
Missouri, at St. Louis, 
SECOND SERIES, Vor. XXIX, No. 85.- JAN., 1860. 
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