Geology and Natural History. 



:. Tfie Phosphate Hocks of Sn>,t/> 

 ' I I><relopiiient ; \)j Ynxsiis S. Iloi. 

 S. C. 88 pp. 8vo. Charles^ton, 1870. — 

 intonded as a popular exhibition of the r 

 in phosphatic deposits, and of some of 

 mining them. The anthor advocates the 



Theil: Bit Insel Elba; von Prof. G. 'vom Kath. in I'.n 

 591-732, from the Zeitschr. d. deutschen uoi.l. <;<s., 1 '- 

 two plates.— Like all of Prof, von Rath's i^apers this v. 

 thorough treatise, both geologically and niineralogical 

 plates contain figures of rare forms of the species Quart 

 clase, Beryl, Tourmaline, Petalite (Castor), Sphene, and 

 besides a map of the Island of Elba. 



Lophiotherium sylvaticum. — Dr. Leidy has 

 of fossil mammr 



of the lower ja 



1^. Auchenia Calif ornica. — Several bones obtained by 1 

 J. Whitney, and labeled " under Table mountain near Sha^ na 

 Tuolumne Co., California," have been referred by Dr. Leidy to 

 new and large extinct species of Lama and named as above.—/'/. 



11. Protohippus o/ieu/y.— Dr. Leidy observes that the gen n 

 Hippidion of Owen, instituted in his paper on the Fossil Equine 

 from Central South America (Phil. Trans. 1869), is essentially thu 

 established bv him in 1858 under the name Protohippm.—Id. 



1-2. Fossil Reptiles of the Gretaeeons of Kansas.—Vrol. <^'opeha 

 '•'■•■osnized among specimens received recently from Kansas^/^ 

 "•"<'nir*is platynrxts Cope, Polycotylus latipinnis Cope, Liodo 

 }.r<,rW,er Cope, and three new Liodons, which he names L. icferictu 

 I. Mudgei, and L. dyspelor. The last was allied to 



7"'**^/' ^^^ '^^'^^ ^^^y ^"^^ larger.— /f/. /or ^^^-.^-^ 



of Austria, 

 the tkle, Uebersichts-Kart'e des Vorkommens der Production 

 pnd Circulation des mineralischen Brennstoffes in der Oesten-eich- 

 ischen Monarchie im Jahre 1868. 



