1890.] Geology and Paleontology. 169 
The first volume of a Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British 
Museum, by Mr. A. S. Woodward, has recently been issued. It con- 
tains nearly five hundred pages, 17 plates and 15 wood-cuts, and is 
really a systematic work upon the extinct Elasmobranch fishes. 
These fishes are divided into the two orders Ichthyotomi (Cope) and 
Selachii. In the former are included the families Pleuracanthide and 
Cladodontide. ‘Thirteen generic names are grouped in the genus 
Pleuracanthus. The Spinacide are classed with the Tectospondyli, or 
concentric suborder of the Selachii, which has twelve families, while the 
Asterospondyli, or radiate suborder, has but six. 
The first part of a catalogue of the fossil Cephalopoda of the British 
Museum, with 344 pages and fifty-one wood-cuts, is the work of A. H. 
Foord, F.G.S. The present volume embraces the seven families 
Orthoceratide, Endoceratide, Actinoceratide, Gomphoceratide, 
Ascoceratide, Potioceratide, and Cyrtoceratide, which all together 
are but a part of the sub-order Nautiloida. 
Jurassic.—R. Lydekker (Geological Magazine, Decade III., Vol. 
VI., No. 297, p. 119, March, 1889) describes two vertebre from the 
Wealden of the Isle of Wight. These specimens clearly indicate a 
small Dinosaur allied to the genus Ccelophysis. 
Cenozoic.—M. Forsyth Major has sent to the Comptes Rendus 
an account of a bed of fossil bones discovered in Samos, and of Lower 
Pliocene age. Among the mammals are many specifically identical 
with those of Pikermi, in Attica, Baltavar, in Hungary, and Mar- 
agha, in Persia ; but there are also some new types, among them an 
Orycteropus, the only species yet known outside of the Ethiopian 
region ; a large pangolin, estimated to be nearly three times the size 
of the West Africa Manis gigantea; and a ruminant referred by the 
author to the Giraffide, and stated to connect Helladotherram with 
the existing giraffe. There is also a large ostrich. 
E. T. Newton describes (Geol. Mag., Jan. 7, 1889) Clupea vectensis 
from the Ogliocene strata of the Isle of Wight. 
Prof. W. Dames has described in the Proceedings of the Berlin 
Society of Natural Sciences a new kind of sawfish from the Eocene of 
Birket-et-Qurun, in Egypt. The rostral teeth of this Amdlyprist's 
cheops differ from those of the existing Pristis in their shortness and 
great relative breadth. 
