List or Kausas City Fossils of the 
Upper Coal Measure. 
The "Lithographic Liiiiestoiie" or Low- 
er Division of the Kiiuh'rhook (iroiip. 
Gasteropod, S and 4. 
Platyceras sp? 3. 
Allorisma hannibaleiisis? 21' 
[^amellibraiich, 2 and 4. 
Lanielliabranoli, 4. 
Avieiilopecten? sp? 4. 
Spirifera marionensis, 2, 3, and 4. 
sp? 3, and J. 
sp? 4. 
liuiinibalensis, 2. 3. and 4. 
0.yrtina aculirostris, 2. 3, and 4. 
" ? sp? 3 and 4. 
Athyris hannibalensis, 2, 3, and 4. 
sp? 3. 
? sp? 3 and 4. 
Terebratula sp? 3. 
" ? sp? 3 
Rhynchonella niissour iensis, 3, and 4. 
Orthis sp? 2, 3. and 4. 
Steptorhynchus sp? 3 and 4. 
Prodnctel]a pyxidata, 2. 3 and 4. 
('hunetes ornata. 3 and 4. 
sp? 3 anil 4. 
Ling'ula sp? 1 and 2. 
•• sp? 4. 
Cronia rowleyi (G-iirley's sijecies 3. 
sp? 3. 
Disci na. sp? 3. 
(V)nulari'i sp? 2. 
Spiiorbis kinderhdokensis. 3 and 4. 
Comidites carbonarins, 3 and 4. 
l)ichooiinns sp? (base and column.) 3,4. 
Zaphrentis sp? (2 species.) 3 and 4. 
Michelissia sp? 2. 3, and 4. 
Bryozoa (several incrusting forms.), 3. 4. 
I'tychostylns siibtiimidus, 2. 
Fpocge. 2 and 3. 
Felioites gracilis, 4. 
The Kiuto^raph. 
N. Y. Letter to Minneapolis Ti'ibinie. 
During tlie hour's talk that 1 had with 
ICdison lie told me of the kintograph, his 
new apparatus for i-eproducing the scene 
upon the stage of a theater, or any other 
moving picture; also of tlie nmv Ini- 
])iovemeiiis upon the phonograj^h. and 
hi.-- process of getting iron from ores 
iieM'lofori' cdnsidert'd wortliless. The 
kiiiioi;r:ii)h is a most astonishing affair, 
which, while extremely simple, may 
possibly become a wonderful adjunct to 
the phonogra|)h. When it is comi)l('ied 
— and Edison is tlioroughly convinced 
tliat its prifectiou is now mei-ely a qne.«- 
tion of detail and experiment — it-v\ ill be 
possible not only to hear the voice of a 
person coming from the ph'inograi)h, hut 
to see the person's face just as it. w as 
when the words were spoken, w itli every 
cliange of expression, the nu)\(Mricnt of 
the lips, ihe eyes. etc. If it i< a re pro- 
duction of a scene upon tlie stage the 
picture will be seen, the actoi's moving 
about, and making proper gesluivs as 
they speak. In the case of the head of 
the person talking to you from the pho- 
nograjjli it will be life size if necessai-y. 
The mech.iiiisni by which this is ac- 
complished is extremely- simple and the 
thing has been made possible by the dis- 
covery of iuslauiaueous photography, by 
which animals in motion or a cannon 
ball tU ing through tlie air have been 
photograDhed. 
244 Schizodus Curtis. 
245 Soleniseus newberryi. 
( Sex.onemu do.). 
246 Soleniseus ventricosus. 
( 3Iachrocheilus i^entricoswm. ). 
247 Schizodus wheeleri. 
{Littorina do.). 
248 Schizodus sp? 
249 Solenomya radiati. 
250 Solenomya species? 
25 I Solenomya do. 
252 Solenopsis solenoides? 
( Clidopfirous do.). 
253 Streblopteria tenuilineata. 
{Pecten t&niiilineatus.). 
254 Serpula insita. 
-5 5 Spirorbus carbonarius. 
( i fiiromices aminoii is ). 
256 Synocladia biserialis. 
257 Trigonocarpum starkianus. 
258 Terebratula bovidens. 
259 Terebratula sp? 
260 Turritella stevensana. 
261 Trachydomia nodosum. 
( Nalicopsis nodosa. ) . 
262 Ulocrinus buttsi. 
263 Ulocrinus kansasenis. 
264 Yoldia carbonaria. 
265 Yoldia stevensoni. 
266 Yoldia sp? 
267 Zeacrinus maniformis. 
( Poteriocrinus do.). 
Fossils of the Loess: 
Helix sp? 
Helix do. 
Pupa do 
Succina do. ■ 
Mastodon giganteus; tee 
and fragments of bones. 
Molars of Ruminants. 
Incisors of small rodents. 
K. R. Rowley, (Jukkyville. Mo. 
Above tlie Is iagara Oolite and resting 
upon it at all of the outcrops we have vis- 
ited in this county, are a few feet of black 
shale, referred by Shuniard and Swallow 
to the Hamilton group of rocks. Their 
identincation of this strata, warranted 
only by its position and color, and iu 
the absence of all fossil remains is wholly 
unreliable. 
In the old Missouri Survey we are told, 
however, that but one well marked out- 
crop of Hamilton rocks had been met 
with in the state and that north of Ashley 
Pike Co., Mo. We have never seen this 
locality and can say nothing of the cor- 
j rectness of the I'eference but hope some 
day in the near future to visit the Ashley 
j beds and will be glad to give the readers 
I of The Naturalist the results of our 
observations. The above mentioned 
I black shale is about three feet thick at 
j Louisiana and we have been fortunate 
I enough to find in an inch band of the 
black shale, teetli and cranial bones of 
tishes identical with remains found above 
in the blue shale. This latter shale is 
about fifteen inches thick and directly 
overlies the black shale, containing, be- 
sides the Ichthyic remains, a few Brach- 
iopods of species found above. Between 
the blue shale and the IJthiographic 
Limestone pi-oper are a few inches of soft 
clay-shale, yellow or brown in color and 
yielding an interesting and often finely 
preserved series of fossils. 
The Litliographic Limestone itself, is 
nearly fifty feet ni thickness and is made 
up of a great number of thin layers, from 
an inch or two at the top to quite a foot 
at the base; grathiallj' thickening from 
above downward. 
This stone is yellowish or bluish and 
very compact, breaking with cotiehoidal 
fracture. 
Tlie layers are separated by softer yel- 
low stone, often little harder than clay, 
and the seams near the base sometimes 
give the collector beautifully preserved 
Brachiopods. The only fossil near the 
tO)) of the Lithiographic Limestone is the 
Peculiar fo-m called Felicites gracilis. 
the rest of the remains being confined 
to the base of the litnestonc and the un- 
derlying shales. 
Begining with the base of the Kinder- 
hook Series and passing upward we will 
number the subdivisions of tlie strata 
and use the numbers after the species of 
fossils in the following list. All species 
followed by 1, are found in th(^ Black shale: 
those by 2, in the Blue shale; 3 in the yel- 
low clay shale, and 4, in the Lithographic 
Limestone. 
Ichthyic remains, 1 and 2. 
( 'oprolites, 1 and 2. 
Phillipsia sp? 2. 
Orthoceras sp? 4. 
Goniatites sp? 4. 
