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within the memory oi man, exposing^ the abundant bones, pottery, 

 and other relics of the Archaic inhabitants. The pottery is de- 

 scribed as peculiar, good for food-cooking, thin, and resisting fire to 

 a wonderful extent ; some of it will be illustrated next year. A 

 remarkable group of stone fortifications and mounds on the Ohio, 

 in Clarke County, is also delineated and described. The Caves in 

 Lawrence County, with their blind fauna, also receive attention. 

 The Tripoli found in pockets in the cherty limestone, forming the 

 roof of the coal, in Dubois County, is described as siliceous particles 

 of organic origin, probably due to Foraminifera and Sponges (p. 424). 

 Xear the base of the Coal-measures in Warren County, Mr. CoUett 

 discovered a slab of sandy mud-stone bearing casts of cracks and 

 footprints ; of these latter Mr. E. T. Cox gives a lithograph, of the 

 natural size, with the name Colletosaurus indianensis. He notices 

 that the bones of the Ampliibamus grandiceps, Cope, were found in a 

 similar geological horizon in Illinois. 



PEOCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



liOYAL SOCIETY. 



June 17, 1875. — Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., President, iu 

 the Chair. 



" First Report of the Naturalist accompanying the Transit-of- 

 Venus Expedition to Kerguelen's Island in 1874." (Conclusion.) 

 By the Rev. A. E. Eaton. 



In January 1875, shortly after the departure of the American 

 Expedition from Royal Sound, an opportunity occurred of visiting 

 another part of Kerguelen's Island. To relieve the ennui of his 

 officers and men, who by that time were thoroughly tired of being 

 detained without any definite occupation in an uninhabited island. 

 Captain Fairfax ordered the ' Volage ' to leave Observatory Bay, 

 and proceeded to Swain's Ba}^ where he remained three weeks. 

 During this period he entertained me as his guest, took me to the 

 best localities in the bay for collecting, and rendered me every 

 assistance that lay in his power. The Royal Society is therefore 

 indebted to Captain Fairfax for a fine series of Alga' from Swain's 

 Bay, comprising many species not found in Observatory Bay, and 

 some that were not known to be indigenous to the island. Most 

 of these are described in tlie ' Flora Antarctica ' as Falkland- 

 Islands species. Captain Fairfax at the same time enabled me to 

 secure the skeleton of a Glohiocephalus, which was found dead in 

 shallow water by Mr. Forrest (Mids.). Most of the epidermis had 

 been removed by small Crustacea, so that it was not possible to 

 ascertain the colour of the animal ; but Lieut. Goodridge, R.N., 

 very kindly photographed the carcass before it was flensed, and its 



