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tion of horns. There was also exhibited the skull of the great 
creodont, Mesonyx uintensis. 
_Bashford Dean exhibited and commented on specimens of 
Palxospondylus. He also exhibited mummied fishes of the 
genus Latis, from Thebes, which by comparison with a recent 
species were found to have undergone no perceptible variation. 
Meeting adjourned. BAsHForD DEAN, 
Recording Secretary of Section. 
STATED MEETING. 
November 19th, 1894. 
The Academy organized with Vice-President Whitfield in the 
chair. Eleven persons present. 
The nominations for resident membership of Prof. Charles L. 
Bristol and Prof. M. Allen Starr were referred to the Council. 
The Section of Geology and Mineralogy then organized, Prof. 
Whitfield in the chair. 
Prof. D. S. Martin presented a report of the Committee on 
Standard Sizes of Trays, etc.,and, on motion, he was requested 
to present it at the next regular business meeting of the Acad- 
emy. 
The first paper of the evening was read by Prof. R. P. Whit- 
field: (a) ‘*‘ On a New Seaweed from the Trenton Rocks of Wis- 
consin;” (b) “On Embryonic Baculites from the Black Hills.” 
Paper (a) appears in the Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. VI., 351, 
December, 1894. 
The second paper was by Dr. E. O. Hovey, “On the Origin 
and Microscopic Structure of the Chefts of Missouri.” Dis- 
cussion followed by Prof. Kemp and Dr. Levison. The paper 
appears in the Amer. Jour. Sci., November, 1894, p. 491. 
The third paper by Prof. C. H. Smyth, of Hamilton College, 
was read by the Secretary in the absence of the author, “ On the 
