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512 Recent Literature. [ July, 
founded on a nearly complete skeleton. Under Hedronchus 
sternbergi, the recorder isolates the remark of the author apse i 
es specimen “has the appearance of the crown of a young 
oth,” thus conveying the impression that the author Jesenik 
it ee it to be such. This is really culpable carelessness. 
Page 281; Tichosteus lucasanus is said to have been founded on 
teeth; its teeth are really unknown. Clepsydrops limbatus is said 
to be from the Dakota beds i Colorado; it is described from the 
Permian. Same page; “A (?) crocodilian tooth named 
Suchoprion cyphodon ,;” the oat of the paper quoted states in 
several places that several teeth represent this species. Page 
Bich Diceratherium is called “the Eocene rhinoceros.” The 
American species are Miocene. Page 291,“ The beds this fossil 
{ Atlantosaurus’) comes stig are Jurassic and Cretaceous.” No 
genus of reptiles is known to be common to the Jurassic and 
Cretaceous in America, filer of all the one in question. 
Tue Mipranp Naturarist..—Twenty-four monthly numbers of 
this valuable journal have been published for the years 1878-9. 
It represents the scientific activity of twenty-four scientific socie- 
ties or field-clubs of the Midland Counties of England. The con- 
tributions embrace some of the best known names in natural his- 
tory in England, as Allport, Cobbold, Gosse, Jeffreys, Whittaker, 
Woodward, &c. The discovery of specimens of animals previously 
unknown to England by members of the pipette and first pub- 
lished in this journal, is a matter of interest., Much that is of local 
interest and much new matter will be found.in its pen with a 
full synopsis of the proceedings of the various societies. 
Rocky Mountain Hearta Resorts.—This is a thorou 
work on the sanitary conditions presented by the high altitudes 
of Colorado and its vicinity, by an enthusiast in this study. 
Dr. Denison has been pursuing his studies in this direction for 
several years, He is a practicing physician at Denver, Colorado 
He has produced a real monograph on the subject which ought to 
prove of great service to our people visiting the Rocky Mountain 
region in search of health or rest. The book is well illustrated 
with maps, diagrams and tables, and the observations are syste- 
matically and clearly arranged. ‘Consumption i in all its aspects is 
treated in detail, as indeed all forms of pulmonary diseases. 
ee oF THE DAVENPORT ACADEMY oF NATURAL 
Sciences.—The second part of the second volume of this enter- 
noe society evinces the same energy and self-sacrifice which 
1 The Midland Naturalist, The Journal of the Associated Natural History, Philo- 
sophical and Archeological Societies and Field Clubs of the Midland Counties. 
Edited by E. W. BADGER and W. J. Harrison, F.G.S. Birmingham, England. 
*Rocky Mountain Health Resorts. An PER y of high altitudes in reiste 
to the arrest of chronic pulmonary diseases, By CHARLES Denison, M.D. Pp 
