118 PROCEEDINGS OP THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



specimens of the larva of the Phryganea, or water moth, were seen dragging 

 their wooden habitation of cemented sticks along the bottom of the shallow 

 fresh water coves formed by the river."* 



"In this camp we noted, besides, the usual timber, abundance of the Ohio 

 Buckeye or American Horse Chestnut (Pavia Ohioensis) the buds of which, 

 eaten in early spring by the cattle, frequently produce in them symptoni& 

 resembling an attack of "trembles or tires," in man called milk sickness.'' 



There are brief lists of plants, noted as growing in many of the counties 

 ^^sited. Under Boone County it is stated "corduroy roads, dog-fennel, smart 

 weed and elder showed the necessity in some places of attention to drainage." 

 Botanists of the present day do not class dog-fennel and elder as plants denoting 

 wet soil. 



The pre\alence of milk sickness is noted in a number of counties and by 

 Richard Owen is usually attributed to the presence of licks, or certain springs 

 resorted to by cattle, as when these are fenced in the disease disappears. He 

 states specifically however, that the disease did not occur in any of the drift 

 covered counties north of the Wabash River. 



Many localities in northern Indiana are mentioned where gold had been 

 panned from the drift along the streams. Of the work then being done in Brown 

 (^ounty in search of this metal Owen says: "The main localities in which 

 success has attended the washings are on Hamlin's fork of Salt Creek, three- 

 quarters of a mile in a direct line from the west limit of Bartholomew, near 

 Mt. Moriah P. O. Here we found extensive preparations in the way of sluices 

 and hose, rockers, and "Long Toms." picks and shovels, etc. Notwithstanding 

 the rain we panned out enough to convince ourselves that the black sand in 

 many of the pockets contains a considerable amount of gold particles. Judg- 

 ing from what I saw here and elsewhere in Indiana of the gold localities, I 

 should venture the opinion that gold is invariably associated with drifted 

 quaternary materials, derived from a matrix, which finds its mountain home 

 at least from four to six hundred miles distant, and more prol)ably double 

 that distance, in a northerly direction." 



The first mention in Indiana geologic literature of geodes, with a descrip- 

 tion of their structure and origin, and their i)revalence in a certain limestone 

 just above the Knohstone (now known as the Harrodsburgh Limestone) is 

 given in the chapter on the counties of the Subcarboniferous limestone. 



The first detailed account in any of the reports of the physical properties 

 and chemical analysis of the Indiana Oolitic limestone is given under the 

 Monroe County heading, the specimens having been taken from a quarry 

 then operated near Stinesville, Monroe County. The eaves at Hamer's 

 Mills near Bedford, on or near the farm now owned by the State University, 

 are also mentioned for the first time. A six page description of Wyandotte 

 Cave with poor woofl cut plates of Monument Mountain and the Pillar of 



*[t was hcrt also that wc captured a l)ull-frog for canii) i)rovisioiis and found, on 

 dissection of its inteslinai canal, that it contained a pebble weighing at least an ounce. 



