346 Scientific Intelligence. 
2. Supplementary Notes on the Metamorphic Series of the 
Shasta Region of California. Abstract of paper read before 
Section E of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science; by James PERRin Smitu, Stanford University, Cali- 
fornia.—The Triassic limestones of the Shasta region show the 
remnants of an old system of anticlines and synclines, in places 
very perfect. Anticlinal noses and synclinal spoons are rare 
phenoniena in massive limestones, but here they are unusually per- 
fect. Many fossils were collected in the, probably, Lower Per- 
mian argillites at the top of the Carboniferous limestone, among 
them Fusulina aff. Jongissima, and many brachiopoda that resem- ~ 
ble Permian forms. 
Particular attention was paid to the Upper Trias, and many 
species were added to the known fauna ot this horizon, most of 
them being identical with or closely related to Alpine species. 
But the association of faunas was found to be new, and different 
from that known in other parts of the world. In the Alps and 
the Himalayas the Zrachyceras fauna occurs below the zone of 
Tropites subbullatus ; in the Shasta region the two faunas occur 
in the same beds, and even in the same hand-specimen. This is 
thought to indicate that either the Zrachy yceras fauna survived 
here ‘longer than elsewhere, or else the Zropites swbbullatus fauna 
appeared earlier in the Shasta region. The latter is thought to 
be the more probable, although both may be true, since the 
Trachycerata are indigenous to the Mediterranean region, while 
the Zropitide probably originated in the Pacific region. 
The probable occurrence of the Juvavic horizon of the Trias 
was discussed, probably the only known occurrence of this horizon 
and fauna outside of the Tyrolean Alps. 
3. Ornithichnites and jaw bone from the Newark sandstone 
of New Jersey; by Artaur M. Epwarps, M. D. (Communi- 
cated.)—For several years I have carefully watched the quarries 
where the Newark (Jura-Triassic) sandstone was taken out at 
Newark, Arlington and at Belleville. Until now, however, I 
_ have not found large fossils except patches of the stems of ferns 
and Bacillariacee (Diatomacez) at Arlington. To-day at the 
Belleville quarry, just north of the city of Belleville, I was grati- 
fied to see some traces of larger fossils revealed in the lower 
levels of the quarry. These were Ornithichnites ; a track of what 
is evidently Brontozoum with two of the joints well marked. 
A third is not so well marked. There are two nails of the foot 
evident. It is in a red shale which formed from fine-grained 
mud. Near by is apiece of fern, and scattered through the 
whitened sandstone are chrysocolla, ctiprite and malachite. Last 
month I secured a jaw bone in excellent preservation with the 
teeth gone. It looks like Dromatherium sylvestre of Emmons. 
There are also slabs with markings on them which I cannot 
identify. 
Newark, N. J., Sept. 11, 1895. 
