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future work done by the members will be more correctly 

 measured by the value of the productions issued in printed 

 form. 



With regard to the specimens conveyed to the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, it seems proper to enumerate some of the more 

 valuable or interesting. Among the very first of these we would 

 place the young Fin-Back Whale captured in the lower part of 

 Chesapeake Bay, the money for securing which was generously 

 given to the Academy by the late William H. Graham at the 

 solicitation of Dr. Russell Murdoch. More than one hundred 

 dollars were spent for cleaning the skeleton on the bay shore 

 where it was stranded, and for transporting it to the museum 

 on Mulberry Street. 



Next ma}^ be noticed a collection of Silurian and Devonian 

 fossils from Alleghany County, determined by Prof. James 

 Hall, of Albany, bought from Mr. G. Andrews, of Cumberland, 

 and presented to the Academy by Mr. John W. McCoy. It 

 embraces many large specimens of fucoids and corals, several 

 slabs with impressions of the Cauda Galli, numerous Brachio- 

 pods, and some Trilobites. With these were also some fine 

 Ammonites, Ophiurans, and other fossils from the Jurassic 

 beds of England. A very large slab, bearing ripple-marks, 

 was also secured with the series from near Cumberland. A 

 considerable portion of this collection was not returned from 

 the New Orleans Exhibition. 



Other important objects are the skull, teeth, broken tusks, 

 ribs, and some other parts of the skeleton of the American fossil 

 elephant, dug from a marsh in Oxford Neck, Talbot County, 

 and presented by Mr. Kirby, who owned the property on which 

 they were found. A broken skull, with fragments of bones, 

 from another specimen of this same species of elephant, were 

 brought from the farm of Col. Edward Wilkins, near Chester- 

 town. Besides these, there was also a tooth of the American 

 mastodon, from an unknown locality. 



Rarest, of great value and still unrepresented in any other 

 collection, are the stumps of Cycads presented to the Academy 

 by Mr. P. T. Tyson. All of these were taken from the Upper 

 Jurassic clays of ]\Iaryland. One specimen came from the iron- 



