2t)4 The Amen'cdn Geohxjiat. April, 1895 
J licir liix^rtininfriiiii the W/iitc Hirer lh(l-<. ItyW. I!. Scott. (Proc. 
Acad. X:U. Sci.. Pliila.. l.Si)4, pi.. 440-48.) In lliis i.apcr Dr. ScoM dc- 
scribcsa new iiisi'Clivorc rcscmbliiiii;' soiru'wliiil llirizcmis Sorer, altlioiiirli 
diU'criiii;' sullicicnl ly li) rrniovc il I'rom this j;t'inis. Il is called Pratu- 
.•"'/•(./■ and i'i'|)iTSfiils a \i'ry |>i-iinit i\c lypc of Soi-ifiihr. Descriplioii. as 
<iu()ti'(l troiii llieaulluir. as lojlinvs: .Maxillai'v drnlil idii mucii as in 
Sort'.r, bill witli less i-cdiiccd tiiird molar, and smaller internal cusps on 
last premolar. Mandible with foui- minute teeth brtwcMi the molars 
and the lar.n'e precumbent incisors." The species /'. (•/•<rv.v//.v (sp. no\-.) i.s 
described I'l-om an adult iiidi\idual and is "chai'acteri/ed l)y the sliorl 
broad face. \;ndled palate, sirai.iihl alv(»olar bonh-r, and by the relatively 
lar^'C size." From the White IJiver Miocene <,[' South Dakota, and dis- 
covered by Mr. M. S. Farr. j. E. 
Notes on K rollcctioii. i:f SiJi( r/ii /i,fo!<-til.s fro/ji. diipr. (r('or</r, Anfigonifih, 
JVorn Srotin. irifh (h'-'irrt)tfion.'< offoi/r nrtr xjjrrits. |Jy Hk.nkv M. Ami. D. 
Sc. F. G. S.. etc. (Ex. Proc. Trans Nova Scotia Inst. Sc, Halifax, N. 
S.. 'h\ Series. No 1. Part 4, pp. 411-41.'>.) The paper is based on the col- 
lections of Silurian fossils made by Messrs. Hutih Fletcher and .1. Mc- 
Donald, durini;' the summer of ISSti, at the extremity of Cape George, 
Ant iiionish county. Nova Scotia. In :i,i;-e the fossils indicate the 
presence of T^iwer Helderbi'ri;' or Ludlow rocks. I'hey correspond U> 
those of Division "D" of the .Vrisai.i;- section in Pictou. although the 
facies is (piite distinct so far as the collections go. The new species 
are not figured. t)ut have been dcscrilied with care. 
'i'lie forms recognized from the collections comprise the following: 
Annelida. 12. .Modiolopsis exilis Billings. 
1. Serpulites longissimus Miachison, i,^. Niiculites (Clidophorus) erectus 
u. var. Hall. 
2. Tentaculites niagart-nsis .' Hall. 14. " pp. iiult. 
;>. ■■ canadensis, n. sp. CmsteropotUi. 
Bracliiopflda. 15. liiicania, sp. 
4. Discina nova scotica. n. sp. 16. Holopea leveisa Hall . 
^. Discina tietcheri, n. sp. Cephalopoda. 
6. ■■ 01 ientalis, n. sp. 1;. Orthoceras, cf. O. annulatum So-v- 
7. I.ingula rectilatcra Hall . erhy. 
5, " sp. .' iS. '• sp. indt. 
<). Oithis I Ktupidonicllal assiniiiis Ostracoda. 
Hal!. 19. I,eperditia, sp. 
10. Rhynclionella foiniosa Hall. Ver/ebrata. 
Lamcllibraiiehiata. 20. Onclius ' ?) sp. 
11. Orthonota equilateia Hall. 
Geohnjiral map of E^incr coii/tfi/, Max-sacliiiKcttn: licport oil the Geolofiy of 
E-i-se-r roimti/, Mass., to accompani/ )iiap. \\\ John H. Se.\ks, Gurator of 
iNIiiieralogy and Geology, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem. (Hull, 
Essex Institute, vol, XVI, 1894, pp. 22.) In this map and report the au- 
thor presents the results of several years' work upon the comple.x rocks, 
of northeastern Massachusetts. Several reports of progress have pre- 
viously api)eared in the same jiroceedings. beginning with those of 1889. 
'I'he present report is mainly devoted to the systematic classification and 
description of the rocks represented on the map. Under i)lutonic rocks 
of hypidiomorphic granular structure are described ( 1 ) horidjiendic- 
