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The great Mediterranean Thetis extended diagonally across 

 Brazil between Archiguiana and Arehamazonia to western Chili, 

 spreading here its tropical marine fauna, which was prevented 

 from also attaining California by the land mass Pacila. This 

 very hypothetic land embraces the Antilles, Archiguiana, Central 

 America, the Galapagos and west to the Hawaiian islands. 



Archinotis is von Ihering's Antarctic continent of Mesozoic and 

 Eocene time and embraces the Falkland Island, South Georgia 

 across to South Australia connecting northward with this conti- 

 nent on one end and the other with Patagonia. It was greatly 

 reduced polarward and its northern connections severed during 

 Neogene time. c. s. 



3. Camarophorella, a Mississippian Meristelloid JBrachiopod ; 

 by Jesse E. Hyde. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 34, 1908, pp. 35- 

 65, pis. 6-10. — This genus is shown not to belong in the Penta- 

 merida? near Camarophoria but in an entirely different association, 

 the Meristellina3. The spiralia and the elevated muscular plat- 

 forms are worked out in great detail and illustrated with excellent 

 drawings. c. s. 



4. The Geology of Pike County / by R. R. Rowley. Missouri 

 Bureau of Geol. and Mines, VII, sec. ser., pp. 122, plates 6 and 

 geological map. — Professor Rowley here brings together the 

 results of his many years of work on the stratigraphy of Pike 

 County, Missouri. The work is especially valuable for the 

 detailed stratigraphy of the Paleozoic formations and the descrip- 

 tions of the fossils on pages 56 to 101. c. s. 



5. Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey, for 

 the year 1907 ; by Henry B. Kummel. Pp. ix, 192 with 50 

 plates. Trenton, 1908. — This volume contains an important 

 report by H. B. Kummel, C. C. Vermeule and L. M. Haupt, on 

 the inland water-way from Cape May to Bay Head, accompanied 

 by a series of folded maps ; there is also a report on the improve- 

 ment of Manasquan Inlet, by L. M. Haupt. Penologists will 

 be interested in the exhaustive paper on the Newark Igneous 

 rocks of New Jersey, b} T J. Volney Lewis, pp. 97-167, accom- 

 panied by some forty excellent plates. An abstract by the author 

 of a part of this important investigation was published in the 

 August number of this Journal, pp. 155-162. 



6. Geological Survey of Canada. R. W. Brock, Acting 

 Director. General Index to Reports 1885-1906. Compiled by 

 F. J. Nicolas. Pp. x, 1014. Ottawa, 1908 (Government 

 Printing Bureau). — The New Series of Reports of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey commenced in 1885 and extended to 1906; 

 sixteen volumes in all have been published, some of them cover- 

 ing two years. The volnme now issued gives a complete Index 

 to this long series and thus makes the large amount of important 

 material contained readily accessible ; this great labor has been 

 well performed by Mr. F. J. Nicolas. The earlier index, prepared 



