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the Niagara Group at Waldron, Indiana,"* with 36 plates. The second is 

 "Fossils of the Indiana Rocks, No. 2" by Dr. C. A. White, with 19 plates, 

 12 of which were of fossil corals, drawn and engraved but never published 

 by John W. Van Cleve of Dayton, Ohio. The majority of these corals were 

 from the Devonian formation and the most of them occur in tbe noted bed 

 of that age at the falls of the Ohio near Jeffersonville. 



Third Report of Colt.ett. 



The next report of CoUett, covering the work done in 1882, was issued in 

 1883. On page 7 he states that "The total number of specimens in the State 

 Museum at the time of last year's report was 44,424. Additions made during 

 the year give at present a grand maximum of over 100,000 specimens, valued 

 by distinguished experts — Prof. Hall, State Geologist of New York, and 

 others — at more than one hundred thousand dollars." This statement is 

 of especial interest when taken in connection with another in the final volume 

 issued by Collett. 



The first part of the report contains two short papers of scientific interest. 

 One, entitled "United States Survey and Growth of Timber," explains the 

 system used by the first Government Surveyors of the State, and includes a 

 reprint of the "General Instructions of the Surveyor General to Deputy 

 Surveyors." It may not be known to all members of the Academy that the 

 original township sheets made by these early surveyors are in the land de- 

 partment of the State Auditor's office, and much use was made of them in 

 getting up the maps, accompanying the geological reports issued between 1895 

 and 1910. 



The second paper referred to was by H. W. Beckwith of Danville, IlUnois, 

 and is entitled "Indian names of Water Courses in the State of Indiana." 



The body of the vohime contains Geological reports on the following 

 counties: Newton and Jasper by Collett; Marion by R. T. Brown; Decatur 

 by M. N. ELrod; Jay by David S. McCaslin and Randolph by A. J. Phinney. 

 Following the report on Randolph County, Dr. Phinney has a paper entitled 

 "Catalogue of the Flora of Central-Eastern Indiana," which he designates 

 as the "Alpine or elevated District of the State." It covers Delaware, Ran- 

 dolph, Jay and Wayne Counties, and lists with time of blooming and local 

 distribution 789 species belonging to 370 genera. 



About one half of the volume is devoted to Paleontology. There is a 

 continuation of "Van Cleve's Fossil Corals," identified and compiled by Prof. 

 Jas. Hall, with 14 plates; also descriptions of new species of corals by Hall, 

 with 14 plates, and a paper on the Spergen Hill Fossils by the same author 

 with four plates. The final paper is entitled "The Diatoms of the Waters of 

 Indiana," by Rev. G. L. Curtis. It comprises only eight pages of matter 

 pertaining to diatoms in general, and is accompanied by six plates on which 

 are shown figures of 108 species, none of which are described in the text. 



*First printed in the 28th Report of the Regents of New York University. 



