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cretaceous reptiles are Edestosaurus dispar and velox and 
dastes Wymani and pumilus. Five new species of crocodiles, 
land lizards belonging to a new genus (Glyptosaurus nodo 
ocellatus, and anceps) were found in the Tertiary deposits. 
New Facts 1s Fossi Borany.—The first point mentioned 
the occurrence in the Devonian Shales of Kettle Point, 
Huron, of beds containing immense quantities of spore-cases, 
ably of Lepidodendron. These beds are referred by the Geo 
ical Survey to the horizon of the Genesee shales of New Yorl re 
and are stated to be twelve or fourteen feet in thickness, and to 
extend over a considerable area of country. Specimens in the 
collection of the Survey show that the bituminous matter w 
causes the combustible quality of the shale, is due entirely to 
immense quantities of spore-cases present, which, under the mi 
scope, appear as flattened discs scarcely more than one hundre 
of an inch in diameter. Specimens of the trunks of 
dron Veltheimainum and Calamites inornatus occur in the 
beds. This is probably the oldest bed of fossil spore-cases kno 
but in later geological periods similar beds occur, the T 
nite, or ‘white coal’ of Tasmania, which consists of spore-cé 
He had received from Prof. Newberry of New York, a specim i 
showing the upper part of a stem with five leaf stalks attached to 
it. This he had named Caulopteris Lockwoodi. Three other spe 
imens collected by Prof. Newberry in Ohio indicated the exis 
important had been named by Prof. Newberry Caulopteris a 
and Protopteris peregrina, They are from the Corniferous bimi 
stone, and thus carry down tree-ferns to the bottom of the mi 
Devonian. One of them has the cellular structure and v 
bundles in such preservation as to show their ERRE y ; 
ae ton ia PA ROD AmE man 
Dawson, in Nature. 
his: Panasiai E Pii od. ide ORARIA. 
dredging expedition which searched the sea-floor in the t 
the Gulf Stream of 1868, yielded, amongst other interesting: 
reporaria, a form which has been described by Count r 
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