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individuals with distinct outlines are inferior in number; the 

 waxy portion contains not so much detritus: flagellata and 

 ciliata — Vorticella, for instance, — which do not possess a min- 

 eral cuirass, are plainly distinguishable; I also observed the 

 complete skeleton of a rotifer (Rotatoria). Heated in the closed 

 tube, Jouite fuses, evolves thick yellowish fumes, a dark-brown 

 liquid with strong bituminous odor and water; during calcina- 

 tion on a nickel plate it melts and burns with a good flame; a 

 fine ash residue remains. Jouite contains, therefore, a very large 

 percentage of a pure hydrocarbon. The last specimen, a bitumi- 

 nous protozootite from the neighborhood of Santa Rosa — Putz's 

 Gulch — bears in its physical appearance a strong resemblance to 

 Jouite; it is in contact with lignite, lignitic shale, and sandstone. 

 It contains, — besides a large percentage of organic matter, — 

 flagellata, ciliata, diatoms (Melosira and Plenrosigma), rhizopods 

 (Gromia), spores, encysted monocellular embryos, etc. Heated 

 in the closed tube, it behaves like the ferruginous protozootite, 

 except that white fumes are evolved (not ignitable) emitting a 

 strong bituminous odor like peat, showing that it is richer in 

 bituminous matter. It is also strongly ferruginous; the iron 

 may be derived from the lignitic shale, which is rich in pyrites; 

 during calcination it glows and preserves its shape. 



November 11, 1889. 



Stated Meeting. 



The President, Dr. Newberry, in the chair. 



Forty-two persons present. 



Dr. Franz Boas, having removed from the city in con- 

 sequence of his appointment as Docent in geographical science 

 at the Clark University at Worcester, Mass., and having sent a 

 request for transfer to the list of Corresponding Members in 

 consequence of such removal, was so transferred by vote of the 

 Academy. 



Prof. Charles F. Chandler, as a member of the General 

 Committee of the proposed World's Fair of 1892, sent a letter 

 requesting that the Academy appoint a Committee to cooperate 

 with him in regard to the scientific department of the Fair, 

 should New York be chosen as the place. 



