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of the thirteen species six occurred in the Miocene of Kachh. 
Thirty-one of the foregoing are new. The same authors have 
monographed the Echini of Scinde, in all twenty-six genera and 
forty-two species, about twenty-six of which are new.—Th. Fuchs 
has described the-Miocene fauna of Egypt and the Libyan desert. 
His work brings the neogene species of Lower Egypt up to 129. 
The new species are Turritella distincta, Pholas ammonis, Pecten 
sittelt, fraasi and geneffensis, Ostrea vestita and pseudo-cucullata, 
lacuna miocenica, Brissopsis fraasi, Agassizia zitteli, Echinolam- 
pas amplus, Clypeaster rohlfst, sub-placunarius and isthmicus, Scu- 
tella ammonts and rostrata, and Amphiope truncata and arcuata. 
— Cervalces americanus Scott = Cervus americanus Harlan, is 
described by Professor W. B. Scott (Science, 1835, 420) from an 
almost perfect skeleton found in Warren county, N. J. It was 
a very large animal, with large head, short neck and trunk, legs 
much longer than those of the great Irish deer, and antlers 
which were palmated, though less so than in the moose. There 
is a bezant antler and a posterior tine given off from the beam 
opposite to it. The two tines are connected by a flaring process 
of bone which descends below the level of the eye. The pre- 
maxillze are stag-like, and join the nasals, which are much longer 
than in the moose. The nostrils were smaller, and there was 
evidently no such a proboscis-like snout as in the moose. Cer- 
valces agrees with the moose in having the lower ends of the lat- 
eral metacarpals present, and on the whole is more like Alces than 
it is like Cervus. Professor Owen (Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 
1883) describes the skeleton of Dinornis parvus. This smallest of . 
the genus has proportionally the largest skull. The Geological 
Magazine for April contains an interesting article upon the oscilla- 
tions of level on the south coast of England. The May issue of the 
same magazine has an account of the inland seas and salt lakes of 
the glacial period, by T. F. Jamieson——A new locality for dia- 
monds is Salobro (brackish) behind the flat coast of the southern 
part of the province of Bahia, near the junction of the Rio Purdo 
with the Jequitinhonha, at the foot of the Serrado Mar. The dia- 
monds occur in a disintegrating clay, apparently of quite recent 
origin, resembling the alluvium of existing rivers, and not exhib- 
iting that rounding of the materials usually so characteristic of 
Brazilian diamond sands. It encloses few minerals compared 
with other sands; quartz is most common, next monazite in yel- 
low and red crystals and zircon in brown to white, but seldom 
violet crystals; while staurolite, almandine, corundum and vari- 
ous iron ores are rarer. This is the first occasion in which corun- _ 
dum has been found in diamond beds, while tourmaline and other 
characteristic minerals are wanting. Mr. D. Pidgeon (Quart. 
Jour. Geol. Soc.) gives an account of some recent discoveries in 
the submerged forest of Torbay, Eng., and maintains, contrary 
to received opinion, that “while some of the so-called peat-beds 
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