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THE Memoirs (Zapiski) of the Njuorossian Society of Naturalists, at the University of Odessa, founded only in 1873, have already reached their eighth volume, and contain a good deal of valuable work. Confining our analysis to the last three volumes, we notice in them the following papers:— In the domain of geology Prof. Sintsoff contributes several papers. One of them is an elaborate monograph on the sponges from the chalk of Saratoff. Revising his former work on the same subject, and taking advantage of the well-known work of Prof. Zittel, as well as of new extensive collections, M. Sintsoff creates a number of new species and four new genera: Moean-droptychium, which he prop jses to substitute for those of æeloptychium, Etkeridgia, and Tremabolites; Labyrintholites, closely allied to Plocoscyphia; Polyscyphia, akin to the preceding; and Zittelispongia. The author describes (with figures) seven species of the first, four species of the second and the third, and one species of the fourth, as well as the following species:— Cucuhsponia triloba, Trautschold, Craticularia cylindrica, Mischl.; two species of Ventriculites, two species of Coscino-pora, Leptophragma simplex, T. Smith, Actiuosiphonia radiata, Fisch., and the new species Hallirhoa peskowi and Isoraphinia cavata.—The same author contributes a second paper on Mesn-zoic fossils from Simbirsk and Saratoff (the first paper having appeared in vol. iv.), and describes the following species:—Ammonites longispinus and caletanus, Scalaria dupiniana, var. rhodani, Aslarte beaumontii, Panopeea neocomiensis, and as new species Aporrhais striata-carinata, Nucula siibarduen˜ nensis, and Ludna neutmlis.-A third paper by the same author contains a description of the following Tertiary fossils of Novorossia:—Dreissena rostriformis, Desh., Hydrobia mathilda formis, Fuchs, H. dimidiata, Eichw., Valvata variabilis, Fuchs, Neritina danubialis, Pfeif., var. liturata, Eichw., N. prevostriana, Partsch., and JV. capillacea, Brusina, from the Pliocene; Trochus rollandianus, d'Orb., Phasianella kischi-nervitz, d'Orb., and as new species Trochus minutus, semi-striatus, and elegantulus, Hydrobia substriatula, Amnicola cyclostomoides, and Valvata pseudo-adeorbis, from the Miocene. All these fossils are represented in the plates.—M. Prendel contributes a paper on the geological structure of the districts of Elizabethgrad and Alexandria, in the government of Kherson. The rocks are granites, mostly as schists, and considered by the late Barbot-de-Marny as a product of metamorphism of sedimentary rocks, and very snail patches of Huronian schists, covered with numerous isolated islands of Eocene. The whole is covered with the “White Sands,” where M. Prendel has found a stem of Cupressonoxylum uvtrzovi, Merklin(Miocene?), and with lo;ss, which contains, besides the usual fossils, remains of Arctomys bobac, which does not now extend in Russia south of 52°-54° N. lat.—The same author contributes (vol. viii.) another paper on th; crystalline rocks on the Bazavlouk and Saksagan Rivers, right tributaries of the Lower Dnieper. The paper is accompanied by a map of coloured sections of microscopic specimens of crystalline rocks.
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Science in Russia 1 . Nature 29, 273–274 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029273b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/029273b0