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Cyclas Linsleyii Prime. 

 " modesta " 

 " riigosa (Whittemore ?) 

 The shell in question is analogous to C. solidula Prime, but 

 smaller, and less inflated, with beaks less central. 



In the northern part of Herkimer County, and in the counties 

 adjoining, north and east, are numbers of small lakes which 

 naturalists seem to be almost wholly unacquainted with. In the 

 waters of those lakes are found numerous species of fish which, 

 too-ether with the deer and other game that abound in the sur- 

 rounding wilderness, sometimes attract the sportsman from the 

 usual haunts of men. From representations made by some ob- 

 serving men who have visited that region, I have formed the 

 intention of visiting it, with the hope of being able to add some 

 new items of interest to my future communications to the Society. 

 Very respectfully, Yours, 



James Lewis. 



It may not be unimportant to add, that among the items em- 

 braced in DeKay's descriptions of the mollusca of New York, 

 is the description of Pliysa glabra (DeKay) which applies to the 

 minute slender shell which, in a previous communication, I pro- 

 posed to separate from P. elongata Say, and designate as P. 

 elongatina. At the time my previous communication was made, 

 I was unaware that Dr. DeKay had reference to the shell in 

 question, in his description of glabra. 



The following paper, on new remarkable gigantic Fossils 

 and Footmarks, was read by the President, Dr. John C. 

 Warren : — 



Within the last half century many remarkable fossil animals 

 and vegetables have been disclosed to us in rapid succession. 

 That these forms should have remained undiscovered for so many 

 centuries, is easily accounted for by the preference which the 

 most polished nations of former ages have generally given to 

 war and conquest, over the study of nature. It was not till the 

 spirit of inquiry on these subjects had been diff'used by Cuvier 

 and others, that these forms of animal and vegetable life were 



