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connection a recent study of the Newark fishes by Professor 

 Eastman* is of interest since it tends to confirm the preceding 

 statements. After an extended comparison between the Newark 

 fish-fauna and that of the European older Mesozoic, he arrives at 

 quite different results from those of the late Professor Newberry 

 and other American students of the Newark fishes, and concludes 

 that there is a considerable parallelism between the fish-fauna of 

 the Newark and that found in the Perledo limestone of Lom- 

 bardy, a unit of the Buchenstein beds of the Alpine Muschelkalk, 

 placed at the base of the Ladinian or the summit of the Virglorian 

 by various students. There is also a considerable parallelism 

 between the American fauna and those of the Besano and Raibl 

 beds of the Alpine Keuper. 



Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



2. Geological Survey of Nem Jersey ; Henry B. Kfmmel, 

 State Geologist. Bulletin 6, Annual Administrative Report of 

 the State Geologist for the year 1911, including a report on Shark 

 River Inlet by C. C. Vermeule. Trenton, 1912. Pp. 82; 5 

 illustrations. — The work of the New Jersey Survey for 1911 

 included, as in past years, a wide range of scientific and economic 

 problems. In geology proper there is to be issued before the 

 close of the year " The Flora of the Raritan Formation" by E. W. 

 Berry, who finds that the Raritan clays contain remains of 

 seventy-eight genera, only thirty-two of which are extinct. A 

 report on "Fossil Fish Remains of Cretaceous, Eocene and Mio- 

 cene" is promised for October. An interesting feature of the 

 present report is the advance summary of the conclusions of 

 Professor Johnson that contrary to the accepted belief "there 

 has been no appreciable subsidence of this coast within the last 

 few thousand years." h. e. g. 



3. Topographic and Geologic Survey of Pennsylvania / 

 Richard R. Hice, State Geologist. Report No. 4, The Mineral 

 Pigments of Pennsylvania, by Benjamin L. Miller. Pp. 101 ; 

 21 plates, 9 figures. — About half of the natural mineral pigments 

 produced in the United States is credited to Pennsylvania, and a 

 report on this state is substantially a general report on the paint 

 industry. Ochers receive the most attention ; and the detailed 

 description of individual properties includes a brief discussion of 

 structure and stratigraphy. A chapter each is devoted to car- 

 bonate of iron paint ores, black shales, yellow shales, red shales, 

 iron ores, and minor substances. Professor Miller's report will 

 be found interesting in both its scientific and commercial aspects. 



H. E. G. 



4. State Geological Survey of Wyoming, Bulletin 2, Series 

 B, Geology and Mineral Resources of a Portion of Fremont 

 County, Wyoming; by C. E. Jamison, State Geologist. Pp. 90 ; 

 14 plates, map in pocket. — Increased interest in the oil fields 

 about Lander, Wyoming, justifies a study of this region supple- 



* Eastman, Bulletin 18, Connecticut Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 1911. 



