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CORRESPONDENCE. 
An Ally of Daimonelix. In a paper published in the Geologist 
for June, 1895,* I called attention to the peculiar genus Daimonelix 
from NelDraska and some allied fossils from New York and Switzerland. 
These were the coiled "fucoid" known as Spirophyton. and certain fos- 
sil "screw stones" described by Oswald Heer. While the actual posi- 
tion of the fossils in classification remains unsettled it is at the same 
time interesting to record any similar remains. 
On a visit to the geological department of the British Museum last 
March I was attracted by a specimen in one of the cases, a figure of 
which 1 subjoin. It was a mass of flint that had been broken and in the 
Flint stone in the Britisli Museum with a coiled fossil, 
interior of which was an upright stem with something coiled about it. 
It bore the label, "Annelid commensal, with a sponge." It was about 
four inches high, and came from a Cretaceous horizon. In general as- 
pect it bears a resemblance to the "screw stones" of Heer and to the 
gigantic fossils of Nebraska, Daimonelix. While it would be rash to 
conclude that all these are of the same nature, it is at the same time 
interesting to note something of a resemblance. 
Joseph F. James, M. D. 
Hiiigham. Mas.H., June 13, 1S9(!. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. G. D. Harkis, of Cornell University, is spendinfj^ the 
summer in Alabama, making paleontological collections fo 
the University. (Science:) 
*Vol. XV, pp. '.i'M-'-m, pi. 
