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 from the Publisher Jour. Royal Soc. of Dublin, No. 36, 1867, from the 

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 tate Magnetische, Astronom., &c; Meteorol. Beobachtungen auf einer 

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On motion of Dr. Engelmann, it was ordered that one of 

 the duplicate specimens of the skull of the fossil ox (or bi- 

 son), now in the museum of the Academy, should be pre- 

 sented to the Zoological Society of Berlin, in exchange for 

 other fossils proposed to be sent to us by them. 



Dr. Engelmann donated to the Academy a collection of 

 fresh-water and marine shells, and various specimens of ob- 

 jects in natural history preserved in alcohol, for the museum. 

 Dr. E. also presented to the Academy the Seal of the old 

 Western Academy of Natural Sciences, of St. Louis, as a 

 memorial of the efforts of our predecessors, in former times, 

 in behalf of natural science in the West. 



Prof. G. C. Swallow read a paper, which he offered for pub- 

 lication in the Transactions, on the Permian formation in 

 Kansas, being a review of Messrs. Meek and Hayden's Notes 

 on his Preliminary Report on the Geology of that State. Re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Publication. 



Dr. B. F. Shumard exhibited a human skull, with fragments 

 of others, from an ancient Indian mound near Little Rock, in 

 the State of Arkansas, it being the same mound from which 

 the artificially flattened skull, heretofore presented to the 

 Academy by bis brother, Dr. G. G. Shumard, was taken. The 

 skull (or calvarium, rather) was small and round, but quite 

 unsymmetrical, and had probably been subjected to compres- 

 sion in the anterior and posterior directions. No accurate 

 description of the mound was given, but it was very probably 

 an ancient mound. It is well known that the Natchez, and 



