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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF 



PHILADELPHIA. 



1888. 



■ January 3, 1888. 



The President, Dr. Joseph Leidy, in the chair. 



Twenty-one members present. 



The death of Andrew Garrett, a correspondent, was announced. 



January 10, 

 The President, Dr. Joseph Leidy, in the chair. 

 Twenty-four persons present. 



On a fossil of the Puma. — Prof. Leidy directed attention to a spec- 

 imen recently sent to him for identification from Sparta, Illinois. 

 It is the cranial portion of a skull of the Puma, Felis concolor, and 

 was found under about thirty feet of earth, when digging in the bed 

 of the Kaskaskia river, for a bridge pier. It accords with the cor- 

 responding part of recent animals, though presenting some slight 

 ditferences from a number of skulls of our museum. The most strik- 

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