66 [Aug. 



On motion of Mr. Phillips it was 



Resolved, That the Society, at the Business meeting in September 

 next, proceed to the election of a Vice President in place of Dr. 

 Griffith, deceased. 



ELECTION. 



Dr. James C. Fisher, of Philadelphia, was elected di Member, and ths 

 following were elected Correspondents of the Academy : John R. 

 Bartlett, Esq., of New York, and T. Charlton Henry, M. D. of Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y. 



August 20t/L 



Dr. Morton, President, in the Chair. 



A letter was read from M. Alfred Malherbe, President of the Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. of Metz, France, dated May 29th, 1850, acknowledging the 

 receipt of his notice of election as a Correspondent. 



A letter was read from Dr. Franklin B. Hough, dated Somerville, 

 New York, August 12th, 1850, accompanying the donation of a col- 

 lection of minerals from that vicinity, and stating his desire to make 

 further contributions in this and other departments, if agreeable to the 

 Society. 



A paper by Mr. Cassin, describing new species of Birds of the 

 genera Paradisea, Pastor and Buceros, and intended for publication in the 

 Proceedings, was read and referred to Dr. Wilson, Dr. Townsend, and 

 Mr. E. Harris. 



A paper was read entitled, " Descriptions of ten new species of 

 Crinoidea, from the sub-carboniferous Limestone of Iowa, collected 

 during the U. S. Geological survey of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minesota, 

 in the years 1848-9, by David Dale Owen, and B. F. Shumard, M. D.:" 

 which being intended for publication in the Journal, was referred to 

 Mr. Conrad, Dr. Wilson, and Dr. Morton. 



A paper was also read entitled, " Notice of fossil remains brought by 

 Mr. J. Evans from the ' Mauvais Terres,' or bad lands of White River, 

 150 miles west of the Missouri, by D. D, Owen, J. G. Norwood, and 

 John Evans," of which the following is an abstract : 



This remarkable collection consists of numerous teeth, fragments of bones, and 

 twenty skulls, some of which last are in an excellent state of preservation. They 

 belong to the oxdevs Rumi7ia>itia and Facliydermata. For the present, the authors 

 of the memoir propose to give only a general and provisional description, as the 

 basis of a full report on a future occasion. The follow^ing species are particularly 

 noticed. 



1. Palaeotherium ? Proutii. These remarkable remains are thus named ia 

 compliment to Dr. Prout, of St. Louis, who first noticed them in the American 

 Journal of Science and Arts. The generic characters, however, are not yet satis- 

 factorily decided. 



2. Another species is allied to Ckasropotamtcs, and still more to Hyracotherium, 

 but is probably distinct. The bones, skulls, and teeth of this animal were found, 

 with the greater part of the other remains, in a flesh-colored calcareous marl. 



