BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX IITSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 6. Salem, Mass., December, 1874. No. 12. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Special Meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1874. 



[Continued.] 



Br special request Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited the 

 collection of living fishes and crayfishes which he had 

 brought from the Mammoth Cave, and occupied the eve- 

 ning by giving an account of the specimens and the for- 

 mation of the cave. 



Mr. Putnam stated that his investigations were made 

 while acting as an assistant on the Geological Survey of 

 Kentucky, of which Prof. Shaler was the chief, and there- 

 fore he was able to work with great advantage, having 

 been aided by the proprietors of the Mammoth Cave, 

 through their courteous agent, Mr. Miller, aud his assis- 

 tant, Mr. Wilcoxson. 



Mr. Putnam first made an allusion to the advanced 

 character of the Kentucky Survey, and the broad and 

 liberal principles upon which it had been based by the 

 legislature of the state, which, by providing for a biolog- 

 ical survey in connection with the geological, had thus 



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