1885.] 4:UD [Cope. 



Society of Philadelphia, and was a frequent attendant at its meetings, and 

 at the time of his death one of the Vice-Presidents. 



He was a member of many institutions of learning throughout the 

 United States, and was a large contributor to their financial support. Ou 

 April 15, 1859, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical 

 Society, but in examining its proceedings I do not find that he made any 

 contribution to them. 



Mr. Vaux was married in Philadelphia to Miss Graeff, of that city, but 

 was so unfortunate as to lose his wife some years before his death. 



One son only w^as born to him, who, unhappily for his father, died at 

 an early age ; so that the last years of his life were passed in widowed 

 and childless loneliness. 



For some years before his death his health had become infirm, partly 

 from advancing years, and partly from a disease contracted during a 

 winter passed in Rome in one of his last journeys to Europe. 



This disease was not, however, the cause of his death, which resulted 

 from a disease of the abdomen in the nature of a tumor-like growth. 



He died on May 5, 1883, in the seventy-second year of his age. 



Under the provisions of his will, his large collection of minerals, valued 

 at over fifty thousand dollars, has become the property of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philapelphia. 



Second Continuation of ResearcJies among the Batrachia of the Coal 

 Measuren of Ohio. By E. D. Cope.* 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, June 19, 18S5. ) 



Cercariomokphus parvisquamis, gen. et sp. nov. 



Char. gen. Represented by a fusiform body which terminates in a long 

 slender cylindric tail, and which is covered with small subquadrate scales 

 quincuncially arranged. No fins or limbs are preserved, and the form of 

 the head cannot be made out. There are some scattered bodies in the body 

 lx)rtion, which look like deeply concave vertebrae with the zygapophyses, 

 of batrachians. There are some linear impressions at one point, which re- 

 semble the bristle-like rods of many Stegocephali. These are so few as to 

 be of little importance. The scales are like those ot fishes. There are 

 traces of segmentation in the axis of the long tail. 



The position of this curious form is quite uncertain. It is quite difierent 

 from anything observed hitherto in the American coal measures. 



* The first continuation of these researches, subsequent to the publication ot 

 the Report of the Geological Survey of Oliio, appeared in these Proceedings for 

 February, 1877. 



