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Geology. 125 
Cawnapa.—The results of the labors of Sir William Logan and his — 
a + Se wogpenta far as they have been made publie are boven * 
page 122, 
It is act to all who take an interest in the progress of souks in 
the United States, that an active discussion is now imminent on the ques- 
tions touching Barrande’s primordial zone. In this discussion the ‘ Ta- 
with some of the slehinee of the Contidias sue “The subj is 
already before the Boston Society of Natural History, where Mr. Marcou 
appears as the advocate of the Taconic System. his geologist finds evi- 
dence of the existence of the primordial fauna not only in the meta- 
morphic black slates of Georgia in Vermont, but at the Falls of Mont- 
morency, in the region between the Upper Mississippi and Lake Supe- 
rior, near Lake Michigan, on the north shore Pi im e Superior near the 
Pic, in the Black Hills of Nebraska, and in 
ew Yor«.—Prof. Hall’s third volume (text) « on the Paleontology of 
~ New York, so long looked for, has been in print, for some time, bat “has 
been held back to ensure completeness under the important genus Euryp- 
terus. It is now before us, and we are assured by him that it ‘will be speed - 
ily distributed. The Introduction handles with master ly skill the difficult 
subjects connected with the proper classification of the lower horizons of 
life in our planet. A review of this important chapter with reference to 
the views of Barrande will probably appear in our next. ‘The plates for 
this volume are not yet all ready for delivery. 
8. Descriptions of new species of Crinoidea and Echinoidea from the 
Corbosiferon rocks of Illinois, and other Western States ; by F. B. Merk 
and A, H. Wortnen, of the Illinois State Geological Survey, pp. 19. 
seday. If so, the latter genus will have to take precedence, ini priority 
of publication 
4, Diesiottehions of New Carboniferous Fossils from Illinois and other 
Western States; by F. B. Mcex and A. H. Wortney, of the Illinois 
State Geological "Survey, pp. 26. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Read Oct. 
23d, and published Nov. 24th, 1860.—This interesting ‘paper. rises - 
69 species, all of which are supposed by the authors, to have been here- 
tofore u deseri . They may be sachet are as hee opteri~ 
4 species; Palasterina, subgenus Schenaster, 1 cman: ; Pro- 
ductus, . See ae mtear 1; Athyris, 1; Pecten, 1; + Av 
ryalina, 3 + Solemya;: 15 ’ Leda, 13 Schizo 
ea aha Bellerophon, as & Pieurotomaria, 11; 
