Geology and Mineralogy. 333 
4, ee Geology of en _ by Prof. Epwarp 
ORTON. Columbus, Ohio, —The Report of the 
Secretary of els of Ohio for 1879 oeaane a paper by Pro- 
fessor Orton which gives the results of recent work by him in 
Eastern Ohio, leading to modifications of some views as to the 
stratigraphy of the region, and also bringing out some of the con- 
nections between the Syeepc te series of Ohio, Pennsylvania and 
Kentucky. A map of Eastern Ohio shows the outlines of the 
formations—the Berea Grit, ‘the Lowest Coal, the Ferriferous 
He obse 
r, Chane re others gricstees in the survey of the western 
f the d 
nm the occurrence ie Chalk in the New Britain Group ; 
by Arcurpatp Liversipée.—In October last the Rev. G. 
Brown, Wesleyan missionary, brought, among other specimens, 
from New Britain and New Ireland (New Britain Group, lati- 
museum, and a fragment broken off from one of them was placed 
in my hands for identification. 
xamination, the remains of numerous Foraminifera are at 
to Mr. . B. Brady, F.R.S., of Newcastle-on- os ee e sa eS 
“ Your eal from the New Britain group i eous 
chalk, and not a friable Tertiary limestone. All the Forstainifera, 
or nearly so, are south Atlantic recent deep-sea species, Globi- 
gerina bulloides, Gl. inflata D i 
n wr pasate to me further as follow 
* The neat oF which the figures are formed is, i am i indian, 
