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nervis Gédpp., i tigen ceeded Geinitziti Gopp., Hymenophyllites 
Leuckarti Gein., a speci ee eee zopteris.— Bull. Mus. Comp. 
ae Cambridge, Mass., pee .e 
"Nummutitie deposits in "Flor pide, —Specimens of a white 
or oellowiah-white riable limestone, from the vicinity of the 
Cheeshowiska River, Hernando say ses ag miles from the 
coast, consist aor ith ag to Mr. Anerto Heriprtn (Proc. 
Acad, Sci. Philad., 1882, p. 189) of N ntitaliten of the genus 
cont, from its discoverer r Mr. Joseph Willcox. _iIt is remarkable, 
ing, with “little or no doubt,” that the rock fragments “ derived 
their faunal char ake from deposi sits of a more ancient formation,” 
either Eocene or Oligocene; and the original beds may possibly 
be hcg submer 
Lapparent’s Traité de Géologie.—The last part of this very 
eilosble work, extending it to 1280 pages, has just been issued. 
8. Pot-holes in the Bronz Valley, Westchester County, New 
York.—In the Transactions of the New York Academy of 
Sciences, No. 8 of vol. i, May, 1882, Dr. N. L. Brirrox describes 
large pot-holes in fine-grained tery Sey of the Bronx, two to 
three —* north of Wi ‘ 
and 10 feet in diameter at middle es at bottom 18 feet above the 
oasis level of the stream; and another about 10 feet deep is 20 
to 22 feet above 
9. Sulphur Pveiis at Vove Creek, in Millard County, South- 
» Uta .—The publication cited from in the preceding paragr raph 
crystals. ‘T'wo miles south of the fort at Cove Creek the solfatara 
pais. nearly a circular crater 1200 feet in diameter, and at its 
c the impure sulphur has a depth exceeding oa — 
Balphie depositions are still in progress from escaping V 
A mile north of Cove Creek, at the Haye 208 Mine, & P fesure 
in ceuahey te is lined ith sulphur crystals; and at the Mammoth 
Mine, fissures and openings in dark-colored Carbonihetods lime- 
stone. A volcanic cone southwest of oe Creek stands on the 
Mammoth Mine a of fracture and faulti 
e deposit BYP psum associated with ‘the sulphur is some- 
times eight feet ye: and those of alum, two feet. Hot springs 
occur in the same region ; 
n some minerals Jrom the sodulite-syenite in the Juliane — 
haab district in South Greenland.—The sodalite-syenite and as- 
