Botany and Zoology. 235 
Buffalo Society of Natural History, vol. iv, No. 1, 1881, the 
rare of Pterygotus Buffaloensis, from the Water-lime group 
uffalo, with illustrations, the length 64 inches and breadth 
re and also, from the same beds, the new species, Ceratiocaris 
grandis, the carapace measuring 94 inches in width and 5} in 
ing its s lose. T 
Dekayi. The author states that Husarcus ‘scorpio nis of Grote 
& Pitt is probably Hall’s Zury ee pustulosus 
9. On the genus Alneolites, Amplexus and Zaphrentis, Jrom 
the en System of se som nd; by James THomson, 
F.G.S. Phil. Soc. of Glasgow, —This paper gives a review 
of pr evious views as to the pire 1 ltotieen and its relations to 
Favosites and Chetetes, It is stated to differ from the last two in 
having eine ous generation, while Favosites differs from Cheetetes 
in a presence of mural a The paper is well illustrated by 
any figure on fou r plates, representing ge as to the corals 
of 4 species of Alveolites, 6 ot Am mplexus, and 23 of Zaphrentis, of 
which one species of Alweolites is first described by the author, 
and 9 of Zaphrentis. 
10, olor shy edt Loxolophodon and Uintatherium; by 
Henry F. Oszo Se.D., with @ pats i hs Report on the 
Bridger Beds in vith Washakie Basin, by Joun B. McMaster, 
C.E. 54 pp., 4to, with 6 plates. Princeton, N. ie July, 1881.— 
This paper is the commencement of a series of public cations, in 
large and handsome quarto form, sues the title, “ Contributions 
from - E. M. Museum of: Geology and Archeology of the Col- 
lege of New Jer The saensioty Heats of the distinction and 
oheracteristics of. the senera Uintatherium and ee odon, and 
eidianum,; the third, teeth of Loxolophodon,; the fourth, 
restoration of Loxolophodon ; the fifth, a map of the Eocene basin - 
of Wyoming Territory, and the sixth, sections through the Leclede 
oa Lan ds. 
Vanadinite in Arizona.—The following note to the editor, 
fein W. P. Blake, was received in a letter dated San Francisco, 
June “ 1881: “Will you please note in the Journal that ina 
letter 0 you I repo “ak the occyrrence ge vanadinite in the lead- 
beating ve eins of Castle Dome District, Arizona, nancolavel with 
wulfenite, cerussite, pore and fluor-spar.’ 
III. Borany anp Zoo.oey. 
DeCanporte, rete: graphics esha cpnigae cs Vol. Il. 
Paris, Masson, June, 18 p. 1 tab. 1-vin.—This ample vol- 
ume has ver y Paid fab Wed. its Aneel bdodoe which contained 
