136 The American Naturalist. [February, 
nal of Science, May; and in the Proceedings of the Boston So- 
ciety of Natural History, Vol. XXIV., pp. 209-11, are some 
Palzontological Notes. 
E. N. S. Ringueberg reviews the Calceocrinide, with Descrip- 
tions of New Species, in Annals of N. Y. Acad. Science, Vol. IV., 
1889. 
Ferdinand Roemer has a paper, bearing the date 1888, Ueber 
eine durch die Haufigkeit Hippuritenartiger Chamiden ausge- 
zeichnete Fauna der oberturonen Kreide von Texas. 
J. M. Safford and A. W. Vogdes, in the Proceedings Academy 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, describe New Species of Fossil 
Crustacea from the lower Silurian of Tennessee. 
Charles Schuchert gives a List of Fossils occurring in the 
Oriskany Sandstone of Maryland, New York, and Ontario. An- 
nual Report New York State Museum for 1888. 
Samuel Scudder has the Oldest Known Insect Larva, Mor-_ 
molycoides articulatus, from the Connecticut river Rocks. Mem. 
Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. III., No. 13. 
N. S. Shaler notes the Occurrence of Fossils of the Cretaceous 
Age on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard, in the Bulletin Museum 
of Comparative Zodlogy, Vol. XVE Nok. 
In the American Geologist for August some New Characters of 
Dophyphyllum simcoense Billings are given by Will H. Sherzer. 
Charles Wachsmuth and Frank Springer have, in the Proceed- 
ings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, dated 
November 27, 1888, two morphological contributions on the 
Discovery of the Ventral Structure of Taxocrinus and Haplo- 
crinus, and Consequent Modifications in the Classification of the 
Crinoidea; and Crotalocrinus: Its Structure and Zoological 
Position. 
Charles D. Walcott has an important article in the May and 
July numbers of the American Journal of Science on the Strati- 
graphic Position of the Olenellus Fauna in North America and 
Europe. In advance sheets of the Proceedings of the U. S. 
National Museum for 1888, the same author describes New 
Genera and Species of Fossils from the Middle Cambrian; a 
Fossil Lingula Preserving the Cast of the Peduncle; anda New 
