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and dashed its head against the cage with such violence as 

 to produce death. 



Mr. R. K. Winslow stated that he received information of 

 an animal answering this description, a year or two ago 

 near Rocky river, ten miles from Cleveland. There can, 

 therefore, be little doubt that this animal is very sparingly 

 scattered over this portion of Ohio, and may now be added 

 to its Fauna. Whether it exists in the States between this 

 and Texas, there is no evidence to show. 



On motion, the thanks of the Academy were given to Mr. 

 J. M. Brainerd for his very valuable donation, and the 

 specimen placed in the hands of Mr. Winslow for preserva- 

 tion and mounting. 



[In the winter of 1872-3 another fine specimen of this 

 animal was killed in Fairfield county,. Ohio, which is in the 

 possession of Joseph SuUivant, Esq., of Columbus, Ohio, 

 well mounted. There is also a fine specimen, mounted, in 

 the museum of the Kirtland Society of Natural Sciences, 

 Cleveland, Ohio.] 



Col. Whittlesey presented specimens of steel, manufac- 

 tured directly from pure iron oxide, by a new process pat- 

 ented by Dr. G. Hand Smith, of Rochester, New York, at 

 the Sharon Iron Works, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. This 

 steel presented a finer fracture than that of blister steel, 

 and coarser than that of the cast steel in general use for 

 tools. Col. Whittlesey stated that the patentee says that 

 this article could be made at an equally low price with 

 common wrought iron^ or nearly so. 



Col. Whittlesey also exhibited tables and diagrams of the 

 rise and fall of water in Lake Erie, from the year 1796 to 

 1852, the maximum being in 1838, the minimum in 1819 and 

 20, the variation being 4.55 feet. Rain guages were kept 

 for various periods, at diff"erent places in the lake region. 

 He also stated, that, by a long course of observation, he had 

 discovered the existence of a short pulsating wave, in this 

 chain of lakes, and entirely independent of winds or cur- 



