1883.] in the United States for the year 1882. 601 
“ Older fossil insects west of the Mississippi.” Proc. Bost. Soc. 
Nat. Hist., 22 : 58-60. 
“On additional remains of articulates obtained by Dr. Dawson 
from Sigillarian stumps in the coal field of Nova Scotia.” [Note 
toa paper of Dr. Dawson’s.] Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., 1882: 
649-650. 
Proof of Mr. Scudder’s memoir entitled, “ The Carboniferous 
hexapod insects of Great Britain,” has been read, and will appear 
shortly in the Memoirs Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 3, with one 
plate. The general part of it appeared in Geological Magazine in 
1881, under the title, “Two new British Carboniferous insects, 
with remarks on those already known.” The plate contains, 
among other things, a chromo of one Carboniferous wing to show 
the colors remarkably preserved. 
Mr. E. O. Ulrich began, in the October number of the Journal 
of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, an important series 
of illustrated papers on “ American Palaeozoic Bryozoa.” The 
second paper appeared in the December number, and is to be 
continued into the succeeding numbers for 1883. In the October 
number of that journal, pp. 175-177, he publishes “ Description 
of two new species of Crinoids from the Cincinnati group,” and 
illustrates them on Plate v. 
In the February number of the American Journal of Science, 
Page 151, Mr. C. D. Walcott gave a “ Notice of the discovery of 
a Peecilopod in the Utica slate formation.” In the March num- 
ber of the same journal, pp. 213-116, he made further publication 
of the same discovery with the title, “ Description of a new genus 
of the order Eurypterida from the Utica slate.” The name pro- 
Posed for the new genus is Echinognathus. 
Bulletin No. 1 of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History 
at Springfield, Illinois, has been issued, octavo, pp. 43. It contains 
two articles by A. H. Worthen ani one by Charles Wachsmuth, 
but no illustrations. 
i Mr. Wachsmuth’s paper occupies pp. 40-43, and is entitled, 
Descriptions of two new species of Crinoidea from the Chester 
limestone and coal measures of Illinois.” : 
Mr. Worthen’s articles are entitled respectively : “ Descriptions 
of fifty-four new species of Crinoids from the Lower Carbonifer- 
= limestones and coal measures of Illinois and lowa: and 
“ Addenda-corrections and proposed new names for species pre- 
