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4. Geological Survey, Cape of Good Hope; by A. W- 

 Rogers, Director ; 13th Annual Report, Cape Town, 1908. — 

 The 1908 Report of the Geological Commission contains the fol- 

 lowing papers : (1) Report on the Geology of parts of Prieska, 

 Hay, Bntstown, Carnarvon and Victoria West, by A. W. 

 Rogers and A. L. du Toit ; pp. 9-109, figs. 13 ; (2) The kimber- 

 lite and allied pipes and fissures in Prieska, Britstown, Victoria 

 West and Carnavon, by A. L. du Toit ; pp. 111-127, 3 figs.; (3) 

 Notes on a journey to Knysna, by A. W. Rogers ; pp. 129-134, 1 

 plan.; (4) The Tygerberg anticline in Prince Albert, by A. W. 

 Rogers ; pp. 135-139. Field work in Prieska and adjoining 

 regions included a study of areas previously mapped, with the 

 result that errors were found to have been made in the determi- 

 nation of structural and stratigraphic relations. This present 

 report, therefore, replaces in large part the report for 1899. 

 (This Journal, xiii, 413.) New occurrences of Dwyka beds are 

 described and petrographic studies have been made of a number 

 of igneous and metamorphic rocks including an unusually large 

 variety of granulites, the origin of which is in doubt. An inter- 

 esting economic feature is the fact that the water supply is found 

 in decomposed dikes of kimberlite, etc., rather than in the shales 

 and other sedimentaries. h. e. g. 



5. The Devonian fauna of the Ouray limestone; by E. M. 

 Kindle. Bull. 391, U. S. Geol. Survey, 1909 ; pp. 60, plates 10. — 

 This Upper Devonic fauna characterized by Plethorhyncha end- 

 lichi and Spirifer cf. whitneyi is now known to extend from 

 southern New Mexico to the north line of Colorado. It is com- 

 posed of 40 species, most of which are restricted to this biota. 

 The strikingly new element is a brachiopod related to Syringo- 

 thyris, for which is here proposed the new generic name Syringo- 

 spira. 



The author does well in removing for western faunas the name 

 Spirifer disjunctus, but he should have gone a step farther and 

 renamed the so-called S. whitneyi, as these Colorado shells are 

 not identical with the typical Iowa individuals. The reviewer 

 has seen the Ouray species also in the Three Forks of Montana and 

 in British Columbia north of the Canadian Pacific Railway, c. s. 



6. Lower Paleozoic Hyolithidce from Girvan; by F. R. 

 Cowper Reed. Trans. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 47, 1909 ; pp. 

 203-222, pis. 3. — From the Ordovician and Silurian beds of the 

 Girvan district the author describes 10 new species of Hyolithes, 

 4 Orthotheca, 2 Ceratotheca, and 5 Pterotheca. c. s. 



7. Die asiatischen Fusidinen. Die Fasulinen von Darwas ; 

 von Gitnter Dyhrenfurth. Palseontographica, Band 56, 1909, 

 pp. 137-176, pis. 13-16. — In this work, which is a continuation of 

 Ernst Schellwien's contemplated Monographic der Fusulinen, 

 are described with great care six forms of Fusulina illustrated by 

 many microphotographs. The geologic occurrence is also fully 

 given. c. s. 



