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and Bartholomew Counties. The volume is very full in its pale- 

 ontological portion, which includes a memoir by Prof. James 

 Hall, on the Fauna of the Niagara < Iroup of Central Indiana, 

 covering 130 pages of the volume, with 30 plates ; and another 

 by Dr. C. A. White on other fossils of the Indiana rocks, occu- 

 pying the remaining 55 pages, with 19 plates. Prof. Hall's tm- 

 nioir i- chiefly from Iiis paper published in a documentary edition 

 of the New York State Museum Report in 18 1 6, and in 18 1 9 in 

 the Museum edition of the keport,and a later paper in the Trans- 

 actions of the Alhanv Institute for 1879. The pages by Dr. 

 White contain descriptions of various Illinois fossils, tour of which 



The last twelve of the plates are made up of figures of corals, en- 

 graved many years since by J. W. Van Cleve, and in the text are 

 contained the descriptions of them by the authors on American 

 corals who have identified the species. The new species described 

 by Dr. White are Gyrom-as Mrodi, from the Niagara group, 

 Patella Levettei, from the St. Louis -roup at Spergen Hill, Lepi- 

 desthes Colletti, from the Keokuk division of the Subcarboniferoiis. 

 and Ai/'irirori'lini* Sj,ringi si. probably from the Keokuk or J. •wet- 

 fossils make the Report especially convenient and valuable for the 

 student of Illinois geology. Copies of the original plates of Van 



V\V//',J!» \t, ' r '" //„', ,/'/ - "pMinieiis of a white or 



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Chiefly, according to Mr. An.iki.,, IIkiipk.n (IW. Acad. Sci. 

 Philad., 1882, p. 'isfl), of Xunnnulitesof the u'emis Xu„»,n,n tt «. 

 They are of one species, which he names N. Wf/lm.,-i, from its dis- 

 coverer Mr. .Joseph Wiileov. It is remarkable, as stated by the 

 author, that the accompanying l'os>il mollusks are of species more 

 recent than Eocene, even living species of fresh-water gem r<t, viz.. 

 GluntJiwi r ,rr<iih!'t, }',d>i di„<i \Y(dh,„ii\ Anqndhisid d< }>st:S*(t. 

 But the genus Orbitoidrs, which had its largest development in 

 the Upper Eocene, is also present, indicating with " little or no 

 doubt" that the rock fragments w ' derived their taunal character 

 from deposits of a more ancient formation," either Eocene or (Mi- 



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