Oct. 1847.] 299 



N. J., resembling Nautilus zigzag, (Sow.) It is more compressed than that 

 species, and the angles of the septa appear to be in contact near the periphery. 

 It is more like a Goniatite than a Nautilus, and may properly constitute a 

 genus, which I propose to name Nautilopsis. 



Nautilopsis Vanuxemi. 



Length 2%. Diameter 1 5-16. 



N. zig-zag may be referred to the same genus. 



The Society, in accordance with the resolution adopted at last 

 meeting for business, proceeded to the election of a Recording 

 Secretary in the place of Mr. Moss, resigned when Mr. John 

 Lambert was unanimously elected. 



A letter was read from Mr. Wm. C. Redfield, dated New York, 

 Oct. 19, 1847, requesting the loan of the Westfield specimens of 

 fossil fish, in the collection of the Academy, for the purpose of 

 description by Mr. Agassiz, in his Memoir on the American 

 Fossil Fishes from the New Red Sandstone, now in course of 

 preparation. 



On motion, the By-law relating to the loan of specimens from 

 the Museum, was temporarily suspended, and the request of Mr. 

 Redfield complied with by the Society, under proper restrictions. 



ELECTION. 



Messrs. Charles Lennig, J. Dickinson Sergeant, Edward M. 

 Kern, Charles Klemm, and Prof. James B. Rogers, all of Phila- 

 delphia, were elected Members ; and 



Dr. P. W. Korthals, of Leyden, was elected a Correspondent. 



