924 i General Notes, [September, 
fossil animal were found. The report spread that it was a fossil 
man, and the proprietor asked an enormous price for it, untilhe 
was at last convinced it was a reptile. It then fell into the hands 
of Dr. Capellini, who found it to be a tortoise of the Sphargis 
group. M. A. Gaudry recently presented to the Paris Academy — 
of Sciences a note upon a new sirenian found in the Paris basin, 
and named by him Hatiterium chongueti. It occurs in the Ostrea 
cyathula marls, and must not be confounded with H. schinzi. 
Trias—At a recent meeting of the Royal Geological Society 
Professor Owen described Riytidosteus capensis, a \abyrinthodont | 
amphibian from the Trias of the Cape of Good Hope. The speci- 
men consisted of the anterior part of the skull with a portion of 
the mandible attached. a 
Tertiary —E. T. Newton has recently written upon the antelope 
remains from the newer Pliocene beds of Britain, and has described 
a gazelle which, though near to G. bennettii, he regards as new, 
and entitles G. anglica. | 
Quaternary—M. G. Rolland has presented to the Academy of | 
Sciences of Paris a series of objections to the theory of a quater 
nary Saharian sea. One of these is the absence of any true 9e 
of marine fossils in the recent strata of the Sahara, since Cardium 
- formation of the Sahara as continental in origin, and dé gee eo 
diluvial waters in an age when the Sahara was abundantly | 
plied with rivers. 
MINERALOGY. 
New Minerats.—(1). Aimafibrite (Igelstrdm)—Among © 
manganese minerals of Nordmark, Sweden, are several peT led 
cies, described by Igelström end others. Aimafibrite, 5° ydo- 
from its blood-red color and fibrous structure, is a basic ide of 
arseniate of protoxide of manganese with a little protox mbic 
iron, magnesia and lime. Its crystalline form is an orth \obules l 
prism, the crystals radiating from a point and hadi 8 Fich at 
aos Om 
1 Edited by Professor H. CARvILL Lewis, Academy of Wee Coe 
delphia, to whom communications, papers for review, etc., sho 
? Bull. Soc. Min. de France, vit, 1884, p. 121. 
