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has a stony appearance; but being- 
found free, in the water or on the 
banks of the stream, and never im- 
bedded in stones it can hardly be so, 
The subject must remain doubtful, 
•until other consimilar Genera are 
iburid. Meantime I give a figure of 
it, and its description; whereby it 
appears to approximate to the Sabel- 
lites and other tubular annelides, 
perhaps also to my G. Potamiphus 
of the R. Ohio, published jn 1819, 
whose worm I detected; but its shell 
is arenaceous open at both ends and 
operculate before. My name of 
Fsephides means gravelly tube;. 
Psephides. Cylindrical tubular 
shell, open before, closed behind, 
opening round entire, inside smooth 
hard stony, outside entirely formed 
by cemented gravel and little shells. 
Fsephides paradoxa Raf. Uncial, 
diameter equal throughout, about 
one sixth of length and obtuse, in- 
side brown, outside versicolor.— 
Length less than one inch. The 
gravel of the outside isofall colors, 
formed by small angular fragments 
of shale, slate, clorite, quartz and 
other stones seldom found in 8her~ 
man Creek! and- even entire fossil 
shells or fragments of fossils. 
C. §. Rafinesque. 
t£3. Fossils of Sherman Creek. 
I have discovered this year, this 
new locality* for fossil remains, and 
collected about 50 sp. in a tract of 
5 miles near the Kennedy Springs, 
in the Quaker hills and Mt. Pisgah 
forming a geological basin of red, 
yellow, brown and white sandstone, 
gravel or pebble stone and conglo- 
merate, holding chert of all colors. 
The fossils are found in all, and 
even the chert or Petrosilex. They 
are of the oldest formation. 
I mean to give hereafter a full ac- 
count of this fine orvctological re- 
gion and all the fossils collected in 
it. I shall here merely indicate them. 
Most of them are new. 
* Vegetable fossils Fucites £ Sp. 
Animal fossils. Porostomites £ 
Sp.Encrinites £ Sp.Turbinolite 1 Sp. 
Fossil shells. Orthoceratite 1 Sp, 
Gryphites 3 sp. Diclisma 3 sp. Pro- 
ductus 6 sp. Terebratulite 8 sp. Eu- 
rytes 3 sp. Gonotrema £ sp. Diclipsi- 
tes 4 sp. Trunculites 3 sp. Pleure- 
terites 10 sp. &c. 
This last is a fine N. G. quite pro- 
lific in sp. it differs from Productus 
by being inequilateral. Nay it may 
be. the type of a new tribe, since one 
sp. which I have called PI. stellata 
having a bilobed hinge and a quadri- 
fid shell might also form a peculiar 
G. Hemisterias quadrifida. C. S. R. 
“ 
£4. Atlantic Review. 
4£. Sylva Americana by D. T. 
Browne, Boston, 183£. 1 vol. l£mo. 
with many wood figures. A useful 
compilation or rather abridgement of 
Michaux’s trees of North America. 
The* trees omitted by him are also 
omitted there. No claim to originali- 
ty— yet extolled in the North Ame- 
rican Review ! 
43. Indian Biography of £00 In- 
dian chiefs, &c. of North America, 
by Samuel Drake. Boston 183£. A 
vol. 1 £mo. £ fig. A very clever lit- 
tle book or lexicon, partly original, 
useful for historical reference, and 
very entertaining withal. 
44. Annals of Tryon County in 
New York, by William Campbell, 
New York 1831. A vol. 8vo. maps. 
Containing an interesting account of 
the settlement of that part of New 
York, and the Indian wars of the 
revolution there. 
45. Adventures and residence on 
the Columbia river, from 181 £ to 
1818, by Ross Cox, New York 1832. 
A vol. 8vo, Amusing narrative, 
with some information on the coun- 
try,, fur trade and Indians of Ore- 
gon; but little addition to geography 
and science. 
46. Monograph of the Trilobites 
of North America, by Prof. Green, 
with casts of all the sp. Philadelphia 
183£. A vol. l£mo. Important and 
original work on these singular fos- 
sils, with some N. G. and many N. 
Sp. but by no means all. We shall 
notice again this labor if we can. 
C. S. R. 
