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THE CINCINNATI QOARTERLY 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



Vol. II. JANUARY, 1875. No. 1. 



Discovery of Dicotyks (Platygomis) compressits, Le Conte. By John 

 H. Klippart, of Columbus, Ohio.* 



f^ lu the month of April, 1873, workmen were engaged in digging 



sand on the banks of the Olentangy river, at the crossing of Olen- 



tangy and Montgomery streets, in the corporate limits of the city 



of Columbus, Ohio ; and in the course of their labors discovered, 



'^ embedded in the sand, a "nest" of bones of some animal, to them 



unknown. A messenger was despatched with a basketful of these 



S bones to my office, when I at once made arrangements to secure the 



■^ entire lot, and whatever more might be discovered in the course of 



^ their excavations. A week later they advised me that they had dis- 



Qp covered another "nest," which I secured also — going in person and 



superintending the removal. 



J5 These bones were exceedingly friable ; in several instances a tibia 



0:5 broke, or rather crumbled, when made to support very little more 



<^' than its own weight. The mass of bones were embedded in a calcareous 



,- clay, intermingled with a very generous quantity of calcareous sand. 



After carefully removing the bones from the clay in which they were 



embedded, they were placed in a kettle containing, say, four gallons 



of boiling water, in which one pound of the best glue had been dis- 



*Read before the American Association for the Advancemeut of Science, at its nicetiug at 

 Hartford, August, 1874. 



