1883.] natural sciences of philadelphia. 301 



December 4. 



The President, Dr. Leidy, in the chair. 



Thirty-six persons present. 



A paper encitled "A Study of the Distribution of Gluten 

 within the Starch Grain," by N. A. Randolph, M. D., was pre- 

 sented. 



Gold from North Carolina. — Prof. H. Carvill Lewis exhibited 

 some remarkable gold nuggets, found in Montgomery county, North 

 Carolina, forty miles east of Charlotte and two miles from Yadkin 

 River. Some of the nuggets were of great size. One of them 

 weighed over four pounds, and contained nearly $1000 worth of 

 gold, neing finer than any specimens in the collection at the Mint. 

 it was probably one of the largest nuggets over found in eastern 

 America. Many of the nuggets exhibited were nearly inire gold. 

 The gold had a crystalline structure, and was of fine yellow color. 

 It was stated that in the district of North Carolina whence 

 these nuggets were taken, gold was very abundant. The larger 

 specimens were found in the gulleys, where they had been washed 

 out of the decomposed rock, and it had been stated that a shovelful 

 of dirt dug out of the hillsides anywhere in this vicinity wonld 

 pan out traces of gold. Some years ago one man took out of a 

 hole sixteen feet square $30,000 worth of gold. The quartzite 

 containing the gold occurs in a white clay or decomposed schist. 



December 11. 



The President, Dr. Leidy, in the chair. 

 Thirty-three persons present. 



On Extinct Rh.inoceri from the Southwest. — Professor Cope 

 exhibited the skull of a young rhinoceros, probably of the species 

 Aphelops fossiger Cope, from the Loup Fork Bed of the valley 

 of the San Francisc j River, New Mexico. He also exhibited 

 photographs of a mandibular ramus of a young rhinoceros, sent 

 him by Dr. Mariano Barcena, of the Citj^ of Mexico. The ramus 

 had been exhumed in the State of Mexico, and apparently belonged 

 to a young individual of the Aphe^ops fossiger, but is of relatively 

 small dimensions. Prof. Cope regarded the discovery as proving 

 the existence of the Loup Fork formation at that locality. 



