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THE MUSEUM. 



is not round. It is like the unripe nut 

 inseparable from its hull. In fact the 

 resemblance of the nut and geode is 

 rather striking, though the impassable 

 gulf between the organic and inorganic 

 intervenes. The crystals in the geode 

 represent the meat in the nut even to 

 intricate foldings or globular, entirety 

 — entirety enclosed by a shell in each 

 case. The matrix rock representing 

 the hull. May there not have been a 

 similar growth in the two cases.'' An 

 expanding process, by which crystals, 

 shell, and rock all grew and formed 

 simultaneously and access to the inter- 

 ior never incomplete until the whole 

 was finished out of the surrounding 

 formative material; so that a proper 

 relative size of cryst.il and shell was 

 retained at every step. 



But to the burden of our text. The 

 overlying St. Louis formatian is, in its 

 lower part, magnesion limestone beds, 

 overlaid by a heavy bed of pure lime- 

 stone concretionary at its outcrops, 

 yielding the line Lithostrotion Coral 

 and often Archcniidcs. 



The lower coal seam lies uncomfor- 

 mably on this; but it is of no economi- 

 cal value, being only a few inches 

 thick. Over this comes a layer of 

 sand rock, yielding the usual coral 

 flora of Calamites, Lepidodendron, 

 Sigillaria, Stigmaria, etc., and above 

 all is a heavy coat of drift, where it 

 has not been removed by denudation, 

 capped by our usual surface soil. — Geo. 

 M. Crofts, Siimmitville, lozva, in 

 Natural Science Neivs. 



Roy G. Fitch of Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, was killed in the elevator at 

 the Alam Sanitarium, at 7 o'clock on 



the morning of July 18. He had been 

 at that place for the past five weeks 

 taking treatment for debility following 

 a long attack of malarial fever, which 

 he had last spring. He was much im- 

 proved in health and was expected 

 home last night to remain until Aug. 

 19, when he intended to enter the 

 Agricultural College at Lansing. 



When the accident occured he was 

 attempting to run the elevator in the 

 momentary absence of the man in 

 charge. Roy arose early yesterday 

 morning and went down stairs. When 

 he wished to return to his room there 

 was no one to run the elevator and he 

 undertook to manage it himself. He 

 slipped and fell in such a way as to be 

 caught between the cage and the wall. 

 It was thought his injuries were not ser- 

 ious enough to have proved fatal, but 

 the shock and fright produced heart 

 failure. 



Roy was a great favorite in his 

 neighborhood and with his teachers 

 and classmates. His disposition was 

 gentle and affectionate and his habits 

 were studious. He was a great lover 

 of birds, and for several years had 

 made their habits a study. He was 

 vice president of the Kent Ornitholo- 

 gical Society and he had a large col- 

 lection of specimens and books that he 

 shared with the club in pursuit of its 

 studies. He was a frequent contribut- 

 or to Ornithological literature, and 

 perhaps was better known to our 

 readers as "Amicus Avium." 



Roy was nineteen years old, and 

 had he lived he would have become 

 eminent in the science toward which 

 his tastes seemed to tend. — Oregon 

 Naturalist. 



