1 882.] in the United States for the year 1SS1. 889 



5 of The Paleontologist, pp. 33-44, which contains descriptions of 

 a number of species of fossils by Mr. James, under the general 

 title of " Contributions to Palaeontology : Fossils of the Lower 

 Silurian formation, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky." 



During the past year Mr. S. A. Miller has published the follow- 

 ing articles in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural 

 History : " Description of some new and remarkable Crinoids 

 and other fossils from the Hudson River group, and notice of 

 Strotocrimts bloomficldensis" Vol. IV, pp. 69-77, illustrated on 

 plate 1 ; " New species of fossils and remarks upon others from 

 the Niagara group of Illinois," Vol. iv, pp. 166-176, illustrated 

 on plate 4 ; " Descriptions of new species of fossils," Vol. iv, pp. 

 259-262, illustrated on plate 6; "Description of new species of 

 fossils from the Hudson River group, and remarks upon others," 

 Vol. iv, pp. 316-319, illustrated on plate 8. In the second of 

 these articles Mr. Miller describes the new genus Zenocrinus, and 

 in the last the new molluscan genus Pyanomya. He also continues 

 his "Remarks on the Cenozoic age or Tertiary period,", in No. 4 

 of Vol. in, and Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of Vol. iv of the same journal. 



Mr. Samuel H. Scudder is still actively engaged upon work 

 pertaining to fossil insects. Five installments of his " Bibliog- 

 raphy of Fossil Insects " have appeared since the first two, men- 

 tioned in my last review. These seven parts comprise something 

 over thirty pages. His memoir on the " Devonian Insects of New 

 Brunswick has appeared in the Anniversary Memoirs of the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History, 41 pages quarto. His article on 

 the " Structure and Affinities of Euphoberia," appeared in the 

 American Journal of Science, Vol. xxi, pp. 182-186 ; and that on 

 the "Tertiary Lake Basin at Florissant, Colorado," in the Bulle- 

 tin of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, 

 Vol. vi, pp. 279-300, and also a map. The following have also 

 appeared from his pen during the past year : " A notice of Goss' 

 Papers on fossil insects," in Psyche, Vol. in, p. 138; "On two 

 new British Carboniferous insects, with remarks on those already 

 known," Geological Magazine, Vol. VIII, pp. 293-300, with one 

 %ure; "Remarks on a remarkable Carboniferous Millipede," 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. xxi, 

 P- 122; "On Lithosialis Aohenua," id. p. 167; "Relation of De- 

 vonian insects to late and existing types," American Journal of 

 Science, Vol. xxi, pp. 1 1 1-1 17. 



