168 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 



October 21, 1861. 

 The President, Dr. Engelmann, in the chair. 



Seven members present. 



A letter was read from Dr. Charles T. Jackson, of Boston, 

 acknowledging his election as a Corresponding Member. 



The following donations to the library were received : 



Rep. on the Economical Geology of the Route of the Ashtabula & New 

 Lisbon Railroad, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., Cleveland, 1857,— R-port on 

 State-house Well, by J. S. Newberry,— Catalogue of Flowering Plants and 

 Ferns of Ohio, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., I860, from the Author ; Proc. 

 Boston Society Natural History, Sept. 1861, from the Society; Journal of 

 the Franklin Institute, October, 1861, from the Institute; Bull, de la Soc. 

 Imp. zool. d'Acclimatation, Paris, No. 9,1861, from the Society; Canadian 

 Nat. & Geologist, and Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc, Montreal, Vol. VI., No. 5, 

 Oct. 1861, from the Society; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., Aug. 1861, 

 from the Academy ; Faune Primordiale dans la Chaine Cantabrique, par 

 Casiano de Prado, Ed. de Verneuil. et .T. Barrande, Paris,— Depot orga- 

 nique dans les loges ae'riennes des Orthoceres, par J. Barrande, — Obs. sur 

 quelques genres de Ce'phalapodes Siluriens, par J. Barrande, — Extension 

 de la Faune Primordiale de Bohe'mie, par J. Barrande,— Colonies dans le 

 basin Silurien de la Bohemie, par J. Barrande,— Troncation normale ou 

 periodique de la coquille dans certains Ce'phalapodes paleozoiq.ies, par J. 

 Barrande, — Notes sur quelques nouveaux Fossiles dans le basin Silurien 

 du centre de la Bohe'mie, 1855, par J. Barrande,— Le Systeme Taconique 

 en Amerique, par J. Barrande, 1861, — Graptolites de Bohe'mie, par J. 

 Barrande, 1850,— Analyse du travail de M. Ed. Suess sur les Biachio- 

 podes de la Collection de Vienne, par M. Deshayes, — Notice biogra- 

 phique sur Mercier de Boi^sy, par M. D'Archiac, 1856, — Notice sur la 

 vie et les travaux de Jules Haime, par M. D'Archiac, 1856, — Notes on the 

 Cretaceous and Carboniferous Recks of Texas, by Jules Marcou, Bos- 

 ton, 1861, — Lettres sur les Roches de Jura, par Jules Marcou, Liv. 2, 

 Paris, I860, — Parallele entre les De'pots Siluriens de Bohe'mie et de Scan- 

 dinavie, par J. Barrande, Prague, 1856, from Prof. Jules Marcou; Pri- 

 mordial Zone of Texas, with Desciiptions of New Fossils, by B. F. Shu- 

 mard, 1861, from the Author. 



Dr. Shumard presented Mcogyra arietina from the Creta- 

 ceous of Texas, and several Naiades from the Ohio River. 



Dr. Shumard called the attention of the Academy to a new 

 Crustacean from the Cretaceous of Hempstead Co., Ark., pre- 

 sented to the museum by Dr. Koch. Dr. Shumard proposed 

 for it the name Mesostylus American its. 



Dr. Shumard exhibited a series of specimens of his Ostrea 

 subovata (O. Marshii, Marcou) from the Washita Limestone 

 of Fort Washita and Austin, Texas, and among them the 

 original specimen described by him in Marcy's Report. 



Prof. Joachim Barrande, of Prague, Bohemia, was elected 

 a Corresponding Member. 



