394 Scientific Intelligence. 



Sir J. Wm. Dawson. (Trans. Roy. Soc, Canada. 2d ser., vol. 

 iii., sec. iv., pp. 57-78, plates 1-xiv, 1897.)— The author brings 

 together in the present paper a full account of what is known 

 regarding the structure and affinities of the two species of this 

 genus (L. Acadianus and L. Cliftonensis), already described by 

 him, and illustrates the subject with beautiful hall-tone reproduc- 

 tions of the remarkable specimens contained in his collection, now 

 deposited in the Peter Redpath Museum, McGill University. 



h. s. w. 



5. The Geological Survey of Georgia ; W. S. Yeates, State 

 Geologist. — Two bulletins of the Georgia Geological Survey have 

 recently appeared : of these bulletin No. 3- A is entitled : A Pre- 

 liminary Report on a part of the Water-powers of Georgia, com- 

 piled from the notes of C. C. Anderson, late Assistant Geologist, 

 and from other sources, by B. M. Hall, Special Assistant. 1896. 

 (150 pp.) This report gives an account of the various water- 

 powers of the State, most of which are at present entirely unutil- 

 ized. The rapidity of the development, however, in the direction 

 of manufacturing has directed attention to the subject, so that the 

 information now brought together is likely soon to bear fruit. 



Bulletin No. 5-A is entitled : A Preliminary Report on a part 

 of the Phosphates and Marls of Georgia, by S. W. McCallie, 

 Assistant Geologist. 1896. This report gives the results of in- 

 vestigations made in the counties lying along the Georgia-Florida 

 State line. As the result of these, it is stated that it is improba- 

 ble that there are, except perhaps in Thomas County, deposits of 

 phosphate of sufficient extent and purity to be mined with profit. 

 Attention, however, is called to the more or less extensive beds 

 of marl or low grade phosphate, and the opinion is expressed that 

 in many, if not all, of these counties deposits exist more or less 

 extensive, which equal in many respects the green sands of New 

 Jersey. The development and use of these deposits, it is thought, 

 would lead to the restoration of thousands of acres of land 

 exhausted by long cultivation, to their original fertility. 



6. Geological Survey of India — Paleontologica Indica. — The 

 following additions have recently been made to this important 

 paleontological series : 



Series XV. Himalayan Fossils. Vol. I, Pt. 4. — The Permian 

 fossils of the Productus shales of Kumaon and Gurhwal, by Carl 

 Diener, Ph.D. Plates I to V. 



Ser. XV. Vol. II, P. 1.— The Cephalopoda of the Lower Trias, 

 by Carl Diener, Ph.D. Plates I-XXIII. 



Ser. XVI. Fauna of Baluchistan. Vol. I, Pt. 2.— The Fauna 

 of the (Neocomian) Belemnites beds, bv Fritz. Noetlinsr, Ph.D., 

 F.G.S. Plates I, II. ' 5 



Ser. XVI. Vol. I, Pt. 3.— Fauna of the Upper Cretaceous 

 (Maestrichtien) beds of the Mari Hills, by Fritz. Noetlino;. Plates 

 I-XXIII. J 



