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The second and fifth names (/,. calycula and clavacoidca) may apply to 
species which Mr. James has described. On this point, however, we are 
in doubt, since liis descriptions are unaccompanied by figures and so 
brief and vague that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to identify his 
species. Mr. Janies has described a large number of bryozoa in this 
manner, and not only we but others have experienced the same difficulty 
in attempting their identification. Some of these species (the two in 
question among the number) have been very fully described and illus- 
trated by Dr. Nicholson,' and so, while we do not yet know what Mr. 
James intended to name, we do know what species Dr. Nicholson had 
before him when he drew up his descriptions. Hence it is Dr. Nichol- 
son's species calycula and clai'ucoidea that are referred to in the list and 
not Mr. James'. 
The other species which are said to have been named and described 
imder similar conditions, but properly referred in the list, are: Orfliis 
iellula^ O. mttltisecfa, Zygosptra cinciuuatieiisis^ Z. keniuckyeiisis and Strep- 
torhynchtis nutans. Of these the first three and the last should be credited 
to Mr. Meek for the same reasons as those mentioned in treating of 
Stomatopora frondosa., BatostomcUa gracilis and Lcptoirypa discoidca. Mr. 
James neither described nor illustrated the species, while Mr. Meek did 
both. 
In preparing the list, brachiopoda and other classes of fossils, excepting 
the bryozoa, were simply copied from one of the published catalogvies of 
the Cincinnati group fossils. In these the references stand as given by 
Meek. As the points here at issue were not at that time in our mind the 
change of authorities was overlooked. The bryozoa, however, were 
taken from our manuscript catalogue, in which the changes had been 
made some time ago. 
Z. kcniuckycn.'tis (a very large var. of modestd) is credited to Mr. James 
because it appears to be new and is one of the few forms described by 
him that we can identify. ^ There is therefore nothing remarkable in 
referring to him as authority. E. O. Ulrich. 
Newport, Ky., April /j, i8S8. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. J. S. Newberry, of the School of Mines, Col- 
umbia College, N. Y., receives the Murchison medal from the 
Geological Society of London — a worthy compliment to one of 
the worthiest of American geologists. 
1 The Genus Monticulipora, pp. 165 and 182; 1881. 
^ The question, does Mr. James' "The Palaeontologist" fulfill the re- 
quirements of a proper publication.^ is not at issue here. If it were, I 
should be scriouslv inclined to answer in the negrative. 
