496 f>jov. 3, 



organisms may be satisfactorily explained, when it is remembered that the 

 open sea in which the great Mountain Limestone of Cheat river — the 

 Chester, St. Louis, and other beds of tlie West— accumulated, shoaled away 

 to a beach line of muddy shallows in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsyl- 

 vania, similar in every respect to the Wdverly and Pocono beaches that had 

 preceded them, and consequently we should expect to find the life forms 

 that had inhabited the latter, continuing on with but slight changes up 

 into the edges of the Mauch Chunk series, where, overlapping the Moun- 

 tain Limestone, it practicallj'' continued the Pocono beaches on to the close 

 of the Subcarboniferous epoch. 



Stated Meeting^ Novemher 5, 18SS. 



Present, 12 members, 



Vice-President, Dr. Le CoNra, In die Chair. 



Letters accepting membership Avere received from C. Eau, 

 dated Smithsonian Institution, "Washington, Oct. 25, and from 

 Garrick Mallery, Bureau of Ethnology, Smitlisonian In.^titu- 

 tion, Oct. 28. 



Letters of acknowledgment Avere received from Thomas C. 

 Porter, Easton (111); and the Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington (110,111). 



A circular letter was received from the Department of the 

 Interior, dated Oct. 26. 



Donations for the Library were received from the Zooiogi- 

 scher Anzeiger, Leipsig ; Academy at Brussels; Geographical 

 Society, Paris ; London Nature ; Canadian Naturalist, Mon- 

 treal ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; American 

 Journal, New Haven ; N. Y. Meteorological Observatory at 

 Central Park ; Franklin Institute, Philada. ; Hon. Thomas H. 

 Dudley, Camden; Signal Service Bureau and U. S. Engineer 

 Department, Washington : and the Chapultepec Observatory, 

 Mexico. 



An obituary notice of Ralph Waldo Emerson was read b}^ 

 Ppv. C. G. Ames. 



