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W. G. Smith and Rev. G. S. Rollins were elected Regular Members. 

 W. D. Barnes, Morgan Park, 111., Prof. E. J. Hill, Englewood, 111., 

 and Rev. M. Kempke were elected Corresponding Members. 



September 29, /Spp — Regular Meeting. 



C. A. Ficke, First Vice-President, in the chair; seven members 

 present. 



The Curator reported the following additions to the Museum for 

 two months : 



From Dr. C. F. Kellogg, Clinton, Iowa, an unusually large, fine 

 specimen of a celt, locality unknown. From the Cemetery Associa- 

 tion of West Davenport, a collection of rocks of very variegated char- 

 acter, found in an excavation on their grounds. Among them was a 

 large, fiat, finegrained sandstone in which were imbedded a series of 

 good-sized pebbles of quartz and Hint, mostly elongated, all rounded 

 and deeply grooved. The peculiarities are, first, grooves in the same 

 general direction ; second, no evidence of their extension into the 

 matrix. These pebbles are distributed through the whole thickness 

 of the rock. The specimens deserve careful study. From G. N. 

 Black, a unique specimen of rock of which, as yet, we know little. It 

 seems to be composed of very fine, worn grains of quartz. This is 

 compacted into forms that have a general resemblance to one another 

 and yet are compressed into every possible shape. But order prevails, 

 as each form retains throughout its length from ten to twenty divisions 

 separated by deep furrows and distinguished by a remarkable discolor- 

 ation of iron. From Mrs. Putnam, from Yellowstone Park, specimens 

 of obsidian granite; petrified and agatized wood; hardened mud from 

 a geyser, with characteristic mass, cones and leaves; from Salt Lake, 

 brown salt rock used in a building of same material with pure white 

 crystallized lining for the inside finish, small natural and large artificial 

 crystals ; from Leadville, crystals of lead, iron pyrites, and quartz. 

 From Edward K. Putnam, well-preserved forms of the prevalent 

 species of reptiles and insects from Shoshone, Idaho; an excellent 

 impression of a fish from the Green Mountains ; a tinder box, also a 

 wooden sand box which our paper blotters have displaced, from Cape 

 Cod, Massachusetts. 



E. Dwight Sanderson's paper on the "Studies of the Immature 

 Stages of Some Chrysomelina " was read by title and referred to the 

 Publication Committee, as was also Samuel H. Scudder's paper on 

 " Synonymical Catalogue of Orthoptera of the United States and 

 Canada." 



The following were duly elected Regular Members : Bishop T. \ . 

 Morrison, Horace Roberts, Dr. A. L. Hagebieck, John M. Helmick. 



