188 General Notes. [ March, 
valuable number); Les s de la province de Saint 
Petersburg, and Sculpture situeés sur les bords des 
lacs des Merveilles, JT OS A viii; Chronometres fournis par la 
stologie pour mesurer l’antiquité de l homme; Congres Archéol- 
-ogique de France, and Sur le Traitement des Morts chez les 
Peuples aryens primitifs, Matériaux ix. 
Prof. Edward S. Morse has found traces of pre-historic man in 
Japan. Near a station on the railroad to Tokio, called Omori, are 
shell-heaps composed of shells of various genera, such as Fusus, 
Eburnea, Turbo, Pyrula, Arca, Pecten, Cardium and Ostrea. The 
heap examined is 200 feet wide, and from 1 to 6 feet deep. Over 
this is a deposit of earth three feet thick. Fragments of bone, 
implements of horn and pottery were found. While the mass 
resembled similar structures found in New England by Prof. 
Morse, the prevailing characteristics were the immense quantity 
of pottery and the absence of bone implements and of flint flakes. 
On account of the distance from and elevation above the shore, — 
the absence of stone implements, and the great thickness of the 
beds above, the Professor supposes the deposit to be of great 
antiquity——O. T. Mason, Washington, D. C. 
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GEOLOGY AND PALÆONTOLOGY. 
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF New ZEALAND is pursuing its 
labors with much success under the able management of its 
director, Dr. Jas. Hector. This gentleman gives the thickness of 
the strata from the Carboniferous to the Lias as over 18,000 feet. 
The beds have south dips, are full of joints, and exhibit two great 
pally gine breaks. They present seventeen fossiliferous hoe 
A remarkable feature of the palzontology is the low 
ae of Sai: and the high range of eerinees Spirifers. 
Some huge saurians occur at one of the horiz 
_ A NEW GENUS OF DINOSAURIA FROM te —A form of- 
this order has recently been discovered in the Dakota Beds of 
Colorado by Mr. Lucas, which is quite different from those 
already announced, e vertebræ resemble those of typical Di- 
nosauria in their solidity and slightly amphiccelous extremities, 
and in the wide discoidal form of the proximal caudals, but differ — 
from them in the extraordinary elevation of the dorsal zy gapophy- 
ses, which stand on a stem composed of the neurapophyses 
The anterior zygapophyses of the dorsal vertebra are united 
on the middle line, forming a basin which receives the pos sterior — 
zygapophyses. This is not the case in the anterior caudals, 
curus. The dorsal vertebra of the latter measures m. 105 t oft 
the base of the neural arch, and m. .300 to the middle of the 
