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Zoophytes at the present meeting, and to have liberty to con- 

 tinue his labors to another year j which was granted. 



After the recess, Dr. John Locke read a paper on the more im- 

 portant fossil remains of the country west of the Alleghanies. 



The Secretary then presented a communication and letter from 

 Prof. J. H. Alexander of Baltimore, accompanied by a meteorolo- 

 gical register kept at that city from October, 1843, to May, 1844, 

 in which some points not usually observed were noted. 



of. J. W. 



eum 



county, N. Y. He also mentioned Ehrenberg's recent discove- 



ries as 



possess 



oolitic structure, and requested that attention might be paid to 

 any evidence of such structure in our American rocks. 



Prof. TV. B. Rogers stated that for many years he had been 

 inclined to regard the oolitic structure of some of the Lower Ap- 

 palachian limestone and chert, as well as the carbon of limestones 

 °i this country, as due to organic forms. He had been led to 

 |nis inference by the remarkable uniformity of the spherules in 

 i«j rocks, and from traces of what seemed to be septa and other 

 indications of structure in them. 

 Adjourned to 4£ o'clock, P. M. 



Afternoon spssinn 





Dr. H. Kins 



H. Olmsted read a paper communicated bv Mr 



^ • tyres, of East Hartford, Connecticut, on the identity of the 

 species of Cottus described by Richardson as the C. cognatus, 



I f r aldernan as the C. viscosus, and by Dekay under the name 



ranidea quiescens, with the Cottus gobio of Europe. Mr. 



> s comes to the conclusion that they are all one species, and 



e °nly fresh-water fish yet determined with certainty to be 



co ^rnon to the two continents. 



h'h" 6 ' rrnaa tnen announced for Tuesday morning the ex- 



tt'°n of an anemometer invented in this city. 



I) n u & ass Houghton remarked on the publication of Dr. 



• • Owen's survey of Iowa, now lying in manuscript in the 



a e Department in this city. He suggested that the Associa- 



rould make some representation to Congress recommending 



lts Publication. 



this l€ lat the subject be referred to the committee appointed 



horning on geological surveys of the public lands. 



