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remaining species. This organ is much crushed and only par- 

 tially preserved in the type specimen, but enough is present to 

 show its great expansion towards the summit and the crown of 

 large spinose plates. Eight of these spatulate spinose plates are 

 recognizable in the specimen, all of them belonging to one side, 

 so that there must have been at least fifteen or more altogether. 



The dorsal cup is remarkable for the large size of the infra- 

 basals which extend far beyond the column and do not rest in a 

 deep concavit}^ but are consolidated into an irregularly hex- 

 agonal, flat disk. The spherical-triangular form of the basals is 

 different from any of the other species of the genus, and the 

 manner of meeting in one point of the distal angles of the in- 

 frabasals, the proximal angles of the radials and the lateral 

 angles of the basals, is quite remarkable. 



Geological horizon and locality. From the upper coal meas- 

 ures, about 700 feet below the horizon of the Cottonwood Lime- 

 stone, at Neal, Greenwood county, Kansas. 



Stuart Weller. 



"Walker Museum, University of Chicago, 

 August 17th, 1897. 



Stated Meeting. 

 November 22, 1897. 



The sub-Section of Philology met at 8 p. m., at the Mott 

 Memorial Library. 



In the absence of the chairman Professor H.A.Todd presided. 



The following programme was presented : 



E. H. Babbitt: " Report on the Work and Condition of the 

 American Dialect Society." 



L. A. McLouth: " Exhibition of a Photographic Fac-simile of 

 the Jenser Liederhandschrifty 



A. V. Williams Jackson: " Report of the recent Congress of 

 Orientalists in Paris." 



Adjournment. 



The attendance was larger than usual. 



Lawrence A. McLouth, 



Secretary. 



