130 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



utilize the iron ore of the \acimty. It was the last one of twelve which were 

 built in the Ftate, all of which went out of blast many years ago. Eastern 

 furnaces with lower railroad rates and better facilities for handling ore, and 

 the opening of the great ore deposits of the Superior region led to the dis- 

 mantling of all these pioneer furnaces of Indiana. 



As with the two preceding volumes, this one also was largely devoted to 

 the geology of the coal measures, treating them by counties and not as a whole. 

 Many analj^ses and sections of coal were given, and the paper by Hamilton 

 Smith, previously mentioned, was included. Under Dubois County there is 

 first mention of the deposit of tripoli near Ferdinand, which for a number of 

 years was sold for polishing purposes. 



An illustrated paper most interesting to naturalists is included in the 

 1872 volume. It is a "Report on the Wyandotte Cave and its Fauna," by 

 that eminent scientist, E. D. Cope of Philadelphia. While attending the 

 meeting of the American Association at Indianapolis, he made a side trip to 

 Wyandotte, and collected the forms of life Avhich he could find therein, six- 

 teen species in all. Five of these, an arachnid, three Crustacea and a my- 

 riopod, he described as new, notable among these being the blind crayfish of 

 our southern Indiana caves. The descriptions of three beetles froni the cave, 

 two of them l)lind, which wer<' drawn up by Dr. Geo. H. Horn, are also in- 

 eluded in Cope's jiaper. 



Following the countj' reports in the volume is one entitled "Meteorology 

 of Vevay, Switzerland County," by Chas. G. Boerner, and another illustrated 

 one on the "Manufacture of Spiegeleisen, Speculum or Glittering Iron," by 

 Hugh Hartmann, Ph. D., of Omaha, Nebraska, who for many years was an 

 assistant in the Spiegeleisen works of Hanover, Prussia. This form of iron 

 ore, used in the production of Bessemer steel, was at that time made only in 

 Germany, and Co.x was attempting to get a factory started in Indiana. 



Fifth Kepokt of Cox. 



The fifth report of Cox, embracing the observations made in 1873, was 

 published in 1874. It was a volume of 494 pages, with maps of (^lark, Floyd, 

 Lawrence, Knox, Gibson, and Warren Counties in a j)ock('t at the end, and a 

 frontispiece map of "Bone Bank", a noted aboriginal burying place on the 

 eastern bank of the Wabash in Posey County. Mr. Cox had l)een appointed 

 by Gov. Hendricks to represent the State at the Universal Exposition held in 

 Vienna, Austria, in 1873. He took with him a small displaj- of native In- 

 diana woods, and also a collection of the mineral resources, of which he says: 

 "Large characteristic specimens of caking coal, block coal, and eannel coal 

 were obtained from mines in various counties of the State. Along with the 

 coals were specimens of pig-iron smelted wth raw block coal, clay, ironstone 

 from the coal measures, fire clay, fire brick made from the clay, building 

 stone and specimens of various colored ochres from Owen, Green, Mart in and 

 Dubois Counties." 



