260 The American Geologist. October, 1903; 
here the most conspicuous and by far the most fossiliferous, is 40 or 
50 feel thick. These marls are very glauconitic. The upper Monmouth, 
the Redbank sands, are typically red sands, very coarse in places, and 
form must of the northeastern portion of the Highlands. A few 
hundred yards east of the station they appear as a conspicuous red 
stratum capping the bluish-gray Navesink. With a gentle dip to the 
south-east of about 25 feet to the mile the Navesink descends lower 
and lower until it finally disappears beneath the railroad track at about 
a mile from the station, and from here to the Hook the Redbank is 
alone visible. 
Along this cut the fossils are most abundant in the Navesink marls. 
Perhaps the most noticeable fossil is Baculites ovatus ; its large size 
and unusually well preserved complicated sutures render it very con- 
spicuous. Other large and abundant fossils are several species of 
Cardium, Turritella and Rostellaria. 
Sandy Hook is very interesting from a physiographic standpoint, 
while two towers for wireless telegraphy and the Sandy Hook light- 
house with its most powerful lights are objects of general interest well 
worth seeing. (A good description of the Monmouth formation is given 
by W. B. Clark in Bulletin Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 8, p. 331.) 
H. W. SHIMER. 
Observations on the Genus Romingeria by Charles E. Beecher * 
— In this article the type species of this genus is discussed together 
with other species. Billings, Rominger, Nicholson, Davis and Lambe 
are quoted in order that the "vicissitudes of the genotype may be ap- 
preciated." Observations on Romingeria umbellifera are then given, 
in which greater regularity of growth and budding new cells than 
heretofore described is shown. Three new species are described, R. 
commutata Beecher, R. jacksoni Beecher and R. minor Beecher. 
This paper deserves further notice, because of the importance of 
this type of coral among the Tabulata and because of the manner in 
which the author has treated the subject. Especially his description and 
illustration of very large fine specimens, are welcome additions to the 
knowledge of these corals. On the other hand I miss from the article 
any mention of the parent corallite of the colony and the stolonal 
beginning. Attention is invited to this omission in view of the future 
mistake which may very easly arise from it. Where the stolonal or 
prostrate pan of the colony grows much differently from the maturer 
vertical part these may be mistaken even for different genera, as has been 
done sometimes in case of Aulopora and certain specimens of Syrin- 
gopora. In case of a laxly growing colony in Romingeria where there 
is the probability that accidentally broken off living corallites would 
plant new colonies the danger of mistakes is, if anything greater- 
Nicholson f closes his description of R. umbellifera (Bill.) with 
this remark, — "I think it quite likely that Dr. Rominger is correct 
* American Journal of Science, vol. xvi, pp. 1-11, plates I-V. 
+ Paleozoic Tabulate Corals, p. 117 
