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taken from others, so as to see if the host which they inhabi- 
ted modified their characters materially. He described and 
illustrated by means of diagrams, the characteristics of the 
Wheat Brand, Puceinia graminis, and other fungi, and 
expressed a hope that the Botanical members would contribute 
specimens of such plants, as they found to be infested by 
mildews, brands and smuts, for the Society’s collection. 
Prof. B. N. Martin exhibited several specimens of fossils, 
from the celebrated Phosphatie beds of South Carolina. 
They included a rib, vertebrze, a tooth, several shark’s teeth 
and others. They had been taken from a portion of the 
stratum, covered by a branch of the Cooper River, and were 
secured from the bed of the stream. 
The President remarked that the vertebree and rib, were 
probably those of the Manatee, which had been found in this 
stratum. The teeth were of the Carcarodon and other extinct 
sharks. In this bed were found associated together, Tertiary 
fossils from the Eocene, Miocene and Phocene formations, 
with even, perhaps, still more recent forms, as human remains 
had been found, which doubtless had been washed in from 
surface deposits. In fact this'Phosphatic bed seemed to have 
received contributions from several strata around, whose 
fossils had been washed out in the course of time. Such 
admixture of fossils from old or even more recent strata, in 
portions of a particular bed were not uncommon, as in 
England, where Cretaceous and Triassic forms were found 
thingled. Prof, Shaler had recently published his investiga- 
tions into these South Carolina beds, which were very exten- 
sive, and reached all along the coast, from North Carolina 
around into the Gulf in Georgia. 
The President made some further remarks on the existence 
of human remains in caves in this country, in continuation of 
his communication at a recent meeting. He alluded to the 
well-known cave at Carlisle, Penn., which had been very 
carefully searched by Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian\Institu- 
tion, whose investigations would be, it was hoped, shortly 
published. Beside the human remains there were found 
