lien'eu- of Becent Geological Litemfure. 263 
Oevonijui column. Some viirialiou of o[)inioii has been e.vi)re.ssed in 
rei^ii rd to lliis by (lifffrcnt paleontolojiists, none more conservative than 
that of Kayser, who has before rejiarded the three divisions, F (witii 
liie exception of F-1), U, H, as rei)resenting tlie lower Devonian, none 
more extreme titan that of Freeh, wlio suj2:gested tliat tiiey might be 
construed as an e.xeflnplification t)f the entire Devonian series. The 
present worl< is a detailed and exact analysis of tlif stratigraphical re- 
lations of these faunas with those of the Rhine section of the Devonian, 
and its essential results are as follows: The etage F-1 (including tiie 
■'koniepruser-kalk") represents the entire lower Devonian and is equiv- 
alent to the Erhray limestone of France, some of the Ural limestones, 
and the Lower Helderberg of New York. The etage F-2 is not homoge- 
neous, but consists of two shar[)ly defined divisions; the higher, or 
Mnenian limestone, is tiie ecpiivalent of Ilie greifensteiner-kalk, and 
hence lower Middle-Devonian. Etage (J-1 probably belongs to the same 
horizon. Etages G-2 and U-^, H-1 and H-"i, art- younucrthan earliest 
Jliddle-Devonian and are all later stages of llie iMiddlc-Devoiiiaii. 
.1. M. C. 
Nochi'iii M'art iiber die JViif/iirendif/kcit (hi) Tiviiiiinin '•mtrisrJi" fur dir 
Ilallstntfer Kalhc (iiifrccht ~.u erhalien. \\\ .\. liiTTNEK. (N'frhandl. der 
k. k. geolog. Reichsanst. 1804, No. 1"), pp. .-iSd-.-iitS.) 
There has been of late considerable discussion among the Austrian 
geologists as to the applicability of the term "noriscli" or norian, by 
which Mojsisovics di-signated a certain /.one of the Trias: and it has 
been contended, among other things, that the name was ])reemi)ted by 
T. Sterry Hunt for a division of the Archean. Whether the term be 
written '•nt)riscli." norian, or noric, it is the same word, and Bittner 
shows that while Hunt introduced the term in 1870, Mojsi.sovics made 
ii.se of the e.xpression "norische Stufe" first in March. 18(!!). The term 
lias, therefore, uncpKwtiidiable priority in its application^to the Tpias. 
J. M. c. 
Thirteenth Aitmutl Iteport of the Neic York State (Jeolof/int, ISU4. 1,015 
pp., SO lithographic jilates. 07 half-tone plates, 470 maps and cuts. This 
volume contains the report of D. D. Luther on the geological section at 
the I^ivonia salt shaft, with an introductory chapter by Prof. Hail 
and sup()lementary chapters by J. M. Clarke: also, special reports on the 
Helderberg limestones, tiie geology of Albany county, of I'lster county, 
and of tlie Mohawk valley, by N. H. Dartoii;on the economic geology of 
Alban\' and Ulster counties, by F. F>. Xason: on the geology of Essex 
county, by .1. V. Kemp: Clinton county, by U. P. Cushing; a jiart of St. 
Lawrence and .letferson counties, l)v C. H. Smyth. ,lr.: Cattaraugus and 
Chautau(|ua counties, by F. A. Randall: Chenango county, by ,\. ^L 
Clarke: furtiier. an account of the discovery of platycnemic man in New 
York, by W. H, Sherzer, the genera of the Feni'stellida', by (i. 1>. Simp- 
son, and the concluding part of the Handbook of tlie Hrachiopoda, the 
first part of which was given in the rejxirl for 18!)1 ([tublislied 1S!»4). 
