1893.] Geology and Paleontology. 737 
According to Mr. Arthur Hollick the isolated and limited exposures 
of cretaceous strata on Staten Island indicate a large and continuous 
bed of similar material throughout the entire area. Mr. White’s 
division of the New Jersey cretaceous strata into marine and non- 
marine, with the Staten Island Clays referred to the latter division, 
the author considers no longer tenable. (Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 
Vol. XI, 1892). 
Mesozoic.—The validity of the Wallala beds as a division of the 
California cretaceous is questioned by Mr. H. W. Fairbanks. This 
division was made by Drs. White and Becker and comprises a series 
of shales, sandstones and conglomerates found in Mendocino Co., 
Cal. and Todos Santos Bay, Lower Cal. The Coraliochama, which 
ite considers the ch teristic fossil of the Wallala beds, is abundant 
in the Chico. Recent fossil finds show also that the fauna of Todos 
Santos Bay closely resembles the Chico. The general character of 
to the beds, together with resemblance of fauna, is sufficient evidence 
Mr. Fairbanks that the Wallala beds and the Chico are synchronous. 
(Am. Journ. of Sci., June, 1893. 
Mr. T. W. Stanton's conclusions in regard to the California creta- 
ceous are substantially the same as those of Mr. Diller. He finds no 
faunal break in the series of strata that have been referred to the 
Shasta and Chico formations. A comparison of the Shasta-Chico 
fauna with that of the Blackdown beds of England, shows that of 46 
species figured by Sowerby from those beds, 23 are represented in the 
Shasta-Chico formations. The age of this fauna, therefore, is not more 
recent than the Cenomanian. (Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. June, 1893). 
Cenozoic.—In discussing the affinities of a fish from the “ terrain 
Bruxellien " described by Dr. Winkler as Euchodus bleekeri, M. Ray- 
mond Storms agrees with Mr. A. S. Woodward, that the fossil must be 
referred to Cybium, a genus represented in modern waters by at least 
a dozen species. (Bull. Soc. Belge de Geol. de Paleont. et d' Hydrol, 
T. VI. 1892).—At the June meeting of the London Zoological Society 
an account was given by Mr. Lydekker of a collection of bird bones 
from the Neocene deposits of St. Alban in the Department of Isére, 
France. The more perfect specimens were referred mostly to new 
species; Strix sancti albani, Palaeortyz maxima, P. grivensis and Tota- 
nus majori. Some of the specimens were indeterminable from their 
fragmentary condition. (Nature, June 15, 1893.) 
