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10. Descriptions of some Remains of Fishes from the Carboniferous 

 and Devonian Formations of the United States, and of some Remains of 

 Extinct Mammalia ; by Joseph Leidy, M.D. — From the Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12 pp. 4 to, with 3 plates. — The Species of Fishes 

 here described, are JEdestus (Leidy) vorax, from the vicinity of the Arkan- 

 sas 20 miles below Fort Gibson, a gigantic fish related to Carcharodon, 

 a fragment of the jaw of which is 6 inches long; Oracanthus vetustus, 

 Leidy, from Missouri; Petalodus Alleghaniensis, from Blair Co., Pa. ; Ho- 

 loptychius Americanus, Leidy, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania; Stenacanthus 

 (Leidy) nitidus, same locality as last ; Apedodus priscus, L., Columbia 

 Co., Pa. — The Mammals, are Camelops Kansanus, (Leidy) from the Terri- 

 tory of Kansas ; Canis primavus, from the banks of the Ohio river a 

 short distance below Evansville, Indiana, associated with Megalonyx Jef- 

 fersonii, Bison Americanus, Cervus Virginianus, Fquus Americanus, and 

 Tapir us Hay sii ; — Ursus amplidens, L., from a ravine near Natchez, 

 Mississippi, occurring with Fquus Americanus, Cervus Virginianus fossilis, 

 Mastodon, Megalonyx, Mylodon, Freptodon ; Ursus Americanus fossilis, 

 from near Natchez ; Procyon priscus, LeConte, from Galena, Illinois. 



11. The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, edited 

 by J. J. Sylvester, M.A., F.R.S., late Professor of Nat. Phil, in Univer- 

 sity College, London, and N. M. Ferrfs, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and 

 Caius College, Cambridge ; assisted by G. G. Stokes, M.A., F.R.S., Luca- 

 sian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, A. Cay- 

 ley, M.A., F.R.S., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and M. 

 Hermite, Corresponding Editor of Paris ; 8vo. London : John W. Parker 

 and Son, West Strand ; 5s. each number. — The first number of this Math- 

 ematical Quarterly Journal, was issued in April, 1855. The character of 

 the work may be inferred from the distinguished names constituting its 

 board of Editors. Each number contains 96 pages octavo, and is occu- 

 pied with papers both in pure mathematics and the applications of math- 

 ematics to questions in physics, and the arts. 



12. Fossils of South Carolina ; by M. Tuomey and F.S.Holmes. 4to. 

 Charleston, S. C. 1856. — Nos. 7 and 8 of this beautiful work have been 

 issued. The plates are remarkably fine. They represent the species Pec- 

 ten septenarius, Mytilus incrassatus, M. inflatus, Area hians, A. incile, 

 A. coelata, A. centenaria, A. rustica, A. lienosa, A. improcera, A. trans- 

 versa, A. scalaris, A. equicostata, A. incongrua, A. pexata. 



13. Abhandlungen der Kaiser iich-Koniglichen Geologische Reichsan- 

 stalt. II. Band. — 4to, with 78 lithographic plates. AVien. — This splen- 

 did volume issued by the Royal Geological Society at Vienna, (1855), 

 contains a Geological Chart of the vicinity of Schemnitz, by von Pettko, 

 three papers by Dr. Constantine von Ettingshausen on Fossil Plants, with 

 numerous plates, the first on the Tertiary Flora of the vicinity of Vienna : 

 2nd, the Tertiary flora of the Tyrol ; 3d, the Carboniferous Flora of Rad- 

 nitz in Bohemia ; also a memoir by Dr. J. K. Andrae on the Fossil Flora 

 (Tertiary) of Siebenburg. The third paper by von Ettingshausen, con- 

 tains among its 29 plates representations of some of the most magnificent 

 coal-plants thus far discovered. There are figures of branches of several 

 Lepidodendra in full foliage, and in one, of the L. Sternbergii, the linear 

 or acicular leaves are over a foot long, and form a dense mass about a 

 branch \\ inches thick, the whole two feet in length. 



