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ome sbhpages ee _— epee) represented by about 4,000 
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t of Muscide and allied kinds ;” of Coleopters, over 300 spe- 
cies, of the normal series, and about 120 uf the Rhyncophorous 
section ; Oy en mipters, more than 100 species of the Hete gpa 
and 65 of Homoptera; of Orthopters, many species; of Neut 
ters, lar gely the Phr anid of which there are 15 or 20 one, 
6 species of the Termites family, and oer of eects 30 spe- 
cies, all Araneze; one Myriapod, an [ulus; of Moll usks, only one 
species, that a Plano orbis; of Fishes, 8 species, _ described by 
Cope, except one by Osborn, Scott and Speir; of Birds, several 
feathers, a spate tolerably ee Passerine bina, described by 
J. A. Allen, under the na seen a izes scotia and a_ plover, 
Charedinus Sheppardianus, Gcribcd 
The fossil plants include large vilicified ABs of trees proba- 
y i cache and many species, 90 to 100 in all, about 40 of 
which have already been described by Lesquereux, besides some 
flowers with a stamens. The assemblage of plants indicates, 
according to Lesquereux, a climate like “that of the northern 
shores of 8 Gulf of Mexico; of fishes, according to Cope, of lat- 
itude 35°; of insects ,according to Scudder, a still warmer climate. 
The age of the deposits i is referred by the —_ recent and best 
authorities to the later Eocene or early Miocen 
e insects are soon to be desbribed by Mr. Scudder in a quarto 
volume and illustrated by a large number of pla 
9. Address of the President of the Geslogical Society of 
London, Roperr Erneriner, F.R.S., at the Anniversary Meeting 
on the 18th of February, 1881.—The subject of this address, 1 is 
the “ laa and Distribution of the British Paleozoic Fossils.” 
It is a carefully prepared and critical review of what has been 
learned respecting the ancient life of Great Britain in Paleozoic 
time, drawn up with details as to the species of plants and 
animals in the successive formations, and as to their stratigraphical 
and geographical distribution, and it has a special interest for the 
American geologist, on account of the wide extent and thickness 
and abundant fauna of saat rocks on this side of the Atlantic. 
Mines in Arizona ; by We we P. Bia ce atthe occurrence of 
arious vanadium minerals at different points in Arizona has 
been recently described by Professor Silliman in this Journal. 
Similar observations were communicated to the Mining and 
Scientific Press of August 13, by Professor Wm. P. Blake. He 
states that vanadinite occurs in considerable abundance at the 
“ Railroad” claim in the Castle Dome district. It forms groups 
of small hexagonal prismatic ory sk Fad curved an 
.tapering as is common in pyromorphi It is also found in 
