342 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP [1883. 



Amer. Phil. Society. Specimens of Selaginella Iqndophylla, from Mexico. 

 Prof. Jos. P. Lesley. Grains of wheat and barley, found germinating in a 



block of ice. 

 J. A. McNiel, of Binghampton, N. Y. Capsule of Sand-box tree (^Hura crepitans), 



from Panama, S. A. 

 Dr. John W. Eckfeldt. 51 species of Scandinavian Lichens, named — most of 



them new to the Academy's collection, 

 Thos. Meehan and John H. Redfield. 148 species plants collected in Arizona 



by H. H. Rusby, in 1883. 

 Prof. H. Carvill Lewis. Radical leaves of Argyroxiphium Sandvicense, etc., 



from Sandwich Islands. 

 J. G. Lemmon, Oakland, California. Tagetes Lemmoni Gr., a new species from 



Arizona. 

 Col. Robert W. Furnas, Brownville, Neb. Wood of Madura aurantiaca, taken 



from far below the surface of the ground, supposed to have been buried 200 



years, and estimated from its annual rings to be from a tree 300 years old. 



Also, wood of Salix cordata, var. vestita. 



Botany (fossil). — J. Jeanes. Fopulus latior, var. rotundata, P. latior, var. cordi- 

 folia, Acer trilobatum, Cinnamomum Scheuchzeri, Salix tenera, Podogonium 

 Lyelhanum, P. Knorii, and Carpolitlius pruniformis, from the Molasse of 

 Oeningen. 



W. BpU. Silicified wood, from the Eocene (?) of Patagonia (Los Missiones). 



Minerals. — Joseph Leidy. Axinite, Bethlehem, Pa. ; Argentiferous Wavellite, 

 Leadville, Col. ; Limonite, pseudomorph after Gryphea, Mullica Hill, N. J.; 

 Lepidolite, Auburn. Me. ; Quartz with Pyrophyllite, Hot Springs, Ark. ; 

 Cookeite with Rubellite and Quartz, Mt. Mica, iMe. ; Muscovite, Chester Co., 

 Pa.; Muscovite with Biotite crystals, Macon Co.,N. C. ; Tourmaline in 

 Muscovite, Mt. Mica, Me. ; Green-black Tourmaline in Mus«ovite, Mt. 

 Mica, Me. ; Serpentine with crystals of Chrysotile, Easton, Pa. ; Green 

 Tourmaline with nodule of Achroite, Paris, Me. ; Rose Tourmaline, Mt. 

 Mica, Me.; Rubellite, Mt. Mica, Me.; Heliotrope, India; Green Tourmaline 

 with Lepidolite, Auburn, Me. ; Rhodophyllite, Texas, Pa. ; Kaolinite, Summit 

 Hill, Pa. ; Muscovite, showing 30 rays, Canada; Muscovite with hexagonal 

 markings, Georgia ; Homogeneous anthracite, and anthracite presenting a 

 fused appearance, found in association with quartz crystals, in cavities of 

 the calciferous Sandstone, Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; Rubellite, and Rubellite 

 passing into Indicolite, Mt. Mica, Me. ; Green Tourmaline passing into 

 fibrous Rubellite, Hebron, Me. ; AUophane, Polk Co., Tenn. 



W. H. Jones. Garnets, from Stikine River, Alaska. 



Theodore D. Rand. Quartzite with (organic ?) markings, Radnor, Pa. ; 

 Asbestos and Serpentine, Radnor Station, Pa. ; Chrysotile, Radnor Station, 

 Pa. 



H. T. Cresson. Feldspar crystal, Leiperville, Pa. 



C. S. Bement. Cinnabar, New Almaden, Cal. ; Cinnabar and Metacinna- 

 barite. Lake Co., Cal. ; Pyrites, I. Elba and Freiberg, Saxony ; Hematite, 

 Elba and Mt. Vesuvius ; Bournonite, Przibram, Bohemia ; Spinel, Orange 

 Co., N. Y. ; Quartz, pseudomorph after Barite, Roxbury, Conn.; Green 

 Pyroxene, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. ; Beryl, Quartz, Albite, and Orlhoclase, 

 Elba ; Garnets in gneissose granite, Avondale, Pa. ; Orthoclase, St. Lawrence 

 Co., N. Y. ; Orthoclase with Quartz, Ural Mts. ; Orthoclase with Quartz, 

 Lomnitz, Silesia; Tourmaline, McComb Co., N. Y. ; Sphene, St. Lawrence 

 Co., N. Y. ; Wavellite, Hot Springs, Ark. ; Apatite, Renfrew, Ontario ; 

 Plagionite, Wolfsberg, Harz Mts.; Crocidolite, Griqua Terr., S. Africa; 

 Cancrinite, Litchfield, Conn.; Barite, Felsobdnya, Hungary; Anglesite, 

 Sardinia ; Strontianite, Hamm, Westphalia. 



A. E. Foote. Heulandite on Zoisite, Chabazite with Leidyite, Chabazite, from 

 Leiper's Quarry, Del. Co., Pa. 



