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ledonous Plants in the secondary strata of Fredericksburg," (Vir.) In the 

 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society he published " Memoir of the 

 Character and Prospects of the Copper Region of Gibara, and a Sketch of the 

 Geology of the N. E. part of the Island of Cuba." " Notice of Fossil Arborescent 

 Ferns of the family Silliquaria and other Coal Plants, exhibited in the Roof and 

 Floor of a Coal Seam in Dauphin county, Penn." "Notice of a Vein of Bitu- 

 minous Coal recently explored in the vicinity of the Havana, in the Island of 

 Cuba." (This was jointly with Mr. Clemson). In Silliman's Journal he pub- 

 lished, ' Notes respecting certain Indian Mounds and Earthworks in the form of 

 Animal Effigies, chiefly in the Wisconsin Territory, U. S,, with Plans and Illus- 

 trations." "Notice of a Model of the Western portion of the Schuylkill, or 

 Southern Coal Field of Penn., in illustration of an Address to the Association of 

 American Geologists, on the most appropriate modes for representing Geological 

 Phenomena," (with illustrative sections). In the Journal and Proceedings of the 

 Acad. Nat. Sciences, "Table constructed from a few Meteorological Notes, 

 chiefly in regard to the daily temperature of noon, on the East Coast of the Isth- 

 mus of Panama, Port Royal, in Jamaica, and on the return voyage to New York, 

 for the month of October, 1849." " Substance of Notes made during a Geologi- 

 cal Reconnoisance in the Auriferous Porphyry region next the Carribean sea, in 

 the Province of Veraguas and Isthmus of Panama," 1851, with maps. At the 

 time of his suddeh illness he was engaged in a paper entitled, On a Vein of 

 Asphaltum of Hillsborough, in Albert county. Province of New Brunswick," 

 which he has left in an unfinished state, but which is so far complete as to justify 

 its publication in the Journal of the Academy. 



ELECTION. 



J. L. Burtt, M. D., U. S. N., and W. L. Sherman, M. D., U. S. N., 

 were elected Members of the Academy. 



