142 PROCEEDINGS OF THE INDIANA ACADliMY OF SCIENCE. 



In this introductory chapter, Cox treated at length the hydraulic cement 

 rocks of southern Indiana, giving many analyses of the rocks and cement. 

 The pages devoted to Archaeology are of interest in that they describe some- 

 what in detail and show maps of prehistoric forts and mounds near the 

 junction of the Miami and Ohio Rivers in Indiana and Hamilton County, 

 Ohio, and also those on the White River near Anderson, Indiana, which are 

 now part of a public park belonging to that city. 



This introductory part of the volume is followed by reports, accompanied 

 by maps, of Wayne County, by Cox, and Harrison and Crawford Counties 

 by Collett. In the Wayne County report is included a sketch of "Observa- 

 tions on the Prehistoric Earthworks of Wayne County, Ind.," by .J. C. 

 McPherson, which is illustrated by three maps, and in which he quotes two 

 stanzas of a poem by John Finly, author of the "Hoosier's Nest," which 

 was inspired bj' the discovery of a skeleton in one of the mounds. Thej'^ are 

 as follows: 



"Year after year its course has sped, 

 Age after age has passed away, 

 And generations bom and dead. 



Have mingled with their kindred clay, 

 Since this rude pile, to memory dear, 

 Was watered bj^ affection's tear. 



iS'o legend tells thy hidden tale, 



Thou relic of a race unknown! 

 Oblivion's deepest, darkest veil 



Around thy history is thrown; 

 Fate, with arbitrary' hand, 



Inscribed thy story on the sand." 



The Wayne County report also includes a section of interest to botanists, 

 it being, a list of the ferns, mosses, hepaticae and lichens of that county, 

 by Mrs. Mary I*. Haines of Richmond in which 17 species of ferns, 84 of 

 mosses, 20 of liverworts and 29 of lichens are enumerated. 



Between the Wayne and Harrison County reports are interpolated a 

 table comprising 36 pages of altitudes in Indiana and adjoining states, 

 by Jesse L. Williams of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and also a "Catalogue and Check 

 List of the Trees and Woody Shrubs of America North of Alexico," by John 

 W. Byrkit of Indianapolis. 



In his report on Harrison County, Collett includes a List of Fossils of the 

 Carboniferous and underljing formations of the county, and a list and 

 description of new species of "fishes teeth," by Dr. J. S. Newberry. An 

 interesting account, covering six pages and including analyses of the frag- 



