General Notes. 
GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 
Fish Otoliths of the Southern Old-Teetiaey.— In a re- 
cent article ^ Dr. E. Koken in Berlin describes the fisli otoliths 
collected by Dr. Otto Meyer in the Old-Tertiary of Mississippi and 
Alabama. The locality *' Jackson Eiver " of Mr. Koken ought to 
be ''Jackson, Miss./' and the locality " Newton, Miss.," cannot be 
considered as belonging to the Vicksburg beds. Changed accord- 
ingly, Mr. Koken's table of species is given below. 
Otolithus (Carangidarum) 
( Apogonidarum) hospes 
" (Pagelli) elegantulus 
" (Sparidarum) insuetus 
" (Sciajnidarum) radians 
g-enima 
eporrectus 
" *' claybornensis . 
" " decipiens 
" (Trachini) Isevigatus 
•' (Cottidarnm) sulcatus 
^1 (Triglce)cor 
(Mugilidarum) debilYs" '.'.'.'.'.'.'.. 
" (Gadidarum) meyeri 
" " elevatus 
" (Platessie) sector 
" (Congens) brevior 
" (incert. sedis) aff. umbonato. . 
We see that Mr. Koken has succeeded in determining the genera 
or families of all fishes which are represented by these ear-bones, 
with the single exception of one worn specimen from Newton. Ine 
enumerated families and genera indicate a strictly litoral fauna, no 
abyssal form is among them. It is different in its character from 
the fish fauna of the German Tertiary, which has been studied also 
•"Neue UntersuchungeD an tertiaeren Fisch-Otolithen." Zeitschrift 
d. deutsch. geolog. Gesellsch., 1888, p. 274, 3 plates. 
