Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (Volume 3) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Excerpt: ... Article XXV.--Observations on some Cretaceous Fossils from the Beyrdt District of Syria, in the Collection of the American Museum of Natural History, with Descriptions of some New Species. By R. P. Whitfield. Much interest has been taken, from time to time, by many persons, in the fossil organic remains obtained from that portion of Syria embraced in Palestine and the Lebanon district; and although much has been written on the geology of this region, and several valuable memoirs on its fossil remains published, still much doubt remains in regard to the exact geological equivalency of the strata of the region. Consequently, any help that can be afforded, or light thrown upon the organic remains of these strata, is quite desirable. Very recently (1890) Dr. Max Blanckenhorn has published a very valuable memoir, " Beitrage zur Geologic Syrien," Cassel, in which he has worked over the palaeontological writings of previous authors in this field (Conrad, Lartet, Frass, Noetling, Hamlin, etc.), and has figured and described some new and some previously-described species. When the announcement of Drl Blanckenhorn's paper was first made, I was at work on a collection of Molluscan remains (Lamellibranchiates and Gasteropoda) from the Beyrfit district, obtained from the Rev. Dr. William Bird, of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, located at Abeih. Part of the collection was originally sent to this country for the use of Dr. P. E. Hamlin, who published a memoir (Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass., 1884, Vol. X) on a previous lot, obtained partly from the same source and partly from the Rev. Selah Merrill, D.D. This later collection, unfortunately, did not reach Cambridge until after Dr. Hamlin's death; and, after remaining some years in storage, was purchased by this ...