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ids City. In December he added another equally extensive collection 

 of flint implements and 20 stone axes. 



In March Mrs. William C. Wadsworth presented to the Academy 

 2 extraordinarily fine specimens of the coral known as the madripora 

 convexa, the larger mounted in a glass case. These were new to the 

 Academy. Accompanying these were 3 specimens of aricula jnargatif- 

 era, finer and larger than any in the Academy ; also 3 specimens of 

 halioUtes iris, large and perfect. 



In April a collection was received from Dr. Clarence B. Moore of 

 Philadelphia, comprising the following aboriginal relics from Florida: 

 Five long celts of exquisite proportions, made of very fine sandstone ; 

 2 conch shells, with perforations to admit handle ; i unique drinking- 

 cup of shell, having a perforation for suspension to the person ; i box 

 of crimson pigment, always associated with human remains ; 2 flint 

 arrows, and i piece of smooth quartz rock. 



In May the most comprehensive and one of the most important 

 additions made to the Museum for years came from Dr. S. C. Bow- 

 man of Andalusia, whose frequent gifts have so often enriched our 

 shelves. The wide range of his material and its diverse character 

 make it difficult to arrange it so as to give a satisfactory presentation 

 of it in a short, compact way. There is an extensive palceontological 

 collection. It comprises a series of fossils from the Cincinnati group, 

 mainlv from Ohio. These in number and preservation compare very 

 favorably with those presented to us years ago by Mrs. Haines. There 

 is another series from the Niagara group gathered at the Bridgeport 

 (juarries near Chicago — shells, crinoids, and trilobites- — all new to 

 our collection. The Hamilton of Qhio furnished a few species, but the 

 largest series is from our own state, and mainly gathered in the neigh- 

 borhoood of Andalusia and Buffalo. There is no doubt truth in Dr. 

 Bowman's statement that this collection is probably the most complete 

 ever made of the Hamilton in Eastern Iowa, and could not now be 

 duplicated. Forms occur not only new to us but new to science, and 

 which we trust may be described and illustrated in Volume VI. of the 

 Proceedings of the Academy. Another and fourth collection is from 

 the Silurian and cretaceous of El Paso, Texas, and the cretaceous of 

 Wyoming. From the conglomerate of El Paso we have three large 

 elephant teeth — enamel fairly well preserved. In these various col- 

 lections the locality in all instances is given. 



In palaeobotany mainly from the coal measures of Andalusia, are 

 well preserved ]jlants, mostly lepidodendra, sigillaria and stigmaria ; 

 some fruits in good condition all the more valuable as the doctor claims 

 the locality is now exhausted. 



There is a box of marine shells from West Florida and land shells 

 from West Texas. 



In comparative anatomy there are skeletons of an African monkey, 

 a white-fronted goose and a yellow-legged tattler; also a porcupine skull. 



In ornithology we have a number of mounted birds from Illinois 

 and Iowa. 



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