(i. STEEANESCU — DINOTHERIVM IN ROUMANIA. 83 



I went again to Man/.ati in the month of May and found other remains, viz: 



1. Ten ril>s, almost complete, one of which was no less than 1.20m. in length. 



2. An omoplat, which could not be taken away except in pieces, hut which I 

 measured in situ. Its transverse diameter was L15m. ; it was 1.05m. from the glen- 

 oidal depression to the posterior ridge ; the diameter of the glenoidal depression 

 alone is 0.25m. 



The deposit yielding the hones stands on the right bank of a small valley near 

 the village ofManzati. The geological structure of this valley, running from north 

 to south, is as follows: In the lower part we find a succession of strata of more or 

 less fine micaceous sand, sometimes yellowish, elsewhere grayish, which alternate 

 with sandstone strata disposed in small sheets or concretions, dipping gently east- 

 ward. Upon these strata, which belong to the middle Miocene, lies unconformably 

 a heavy stratum, 25 to 30 meters thick, of a yellow or grayish loess, sometimes sandy 

 and more rarely containing clay. In the upper part of the Miocene strata many 

 cavities have been produced by erosion, which have been afterwards tilled by the 

 earliest strata of loess, containing small concretions of white marl and many frag- 

 ments of worn sandstone. 



We now have, therefore, two regions in Roumania in which remains of l)iu<i- 

 therium have been found, Gaiceana and Manzati, and which must he added to the 

 other points on our globe in which geologists have found remains of this giant of 



the Tertiary world. 



Professor E. 1). Cope spoke upon the subject of the paper, reviewing 

 the character and distribution of Dinotherium ; following which a recess 

 was taken until 2 o'clock p. m. 



A.FTERN00N SESSION, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25. 



The Society reconvened at 2 o'clock p. in., meeting in two sections. 

 The papers relating to the Pleistocene were read in the second section, 

 meeting elsewhere in Columbian University, the proceedings of which 

 appear on a later page. 



The first paper read in the main section was — 



TIM: ELiEOLITE-SYENITE OF BEEMERVILLE, NEW JERSEY. 



BY I Wll> I . K EM r. 



[Abstract.] 



The paper opens with a brief description of the other American area- of elseolite- 

 syenite i Montreal, Canada : Litchfield, .Maine: Salem and Marblehead, Massachu- 

 setts; Ma-net Cove, Arkansas) and gives a synopsis of the work which has been 

 done upon them. Reasons for suspecting the existence of an outcrop in the \A\ 

 rondacks are stated. An outline is then given of the discovery of the Beemer- 



