Stille\] [May 6, 1870. 



had done some service to the country by his writings at a critical 

 period of the war. From that hour his heart warmed towards that 

 friend : he gave him his fullest confidence, he spoke in the most un- 

 measured terms of the value of his services, and whatever influence 

 he could command, was thenceforth exerted to secure for him posts 

 of trust and honor. And this is the man, with a heart as simple as 

 a child's, and as tender as a woman's, who was thought cold and for- 

 mal by those who did not know him. 



Mr. Binney never fully recovered from the effects of an illness 

 through which he passed about ten years ago. Within a few weeks 

 of his death, a disease of the heart was rapidly developed, and he 

 was snatched away from his family and friends with startling sud- 

 deness, on the third of February, 1870. He left a widow, the daughter 

 of the late William Johnson, Esquire, of New York, the eminent 

 Reporter, and the intimate friend of Chancellor Kent, and seven 

 children. 



His life seems to me to have been in its symmetrical beauty almost 

 an ideal one. It was nurtured and strengthened by the two great 

 principles out of which all true excellence springs, Trust in God, and 

 Devotion to Duty : 



"Thus it flowed 



From its mysterious um a sacred stream, 



In whose calm depths the beautiful and pure 



Alone are mirror'd ; which, though shapes of ill 



May hover round its surface, glides in light, 



And takes no shadow from them." 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FISHES OF THE TERTIARY SHALES 



OF GREEN RIVER, WYOMING TERRITORY. 



BY PROF. E. D. COPE. 



Physoclysti. 



ASINEOPS, Cope, gen. nov. 



FAM. SQUAMIPENNES. Branchiostegal radii, seven ; ventral radii I. 6-7. 

 Opercular and other cranial bones unarmed ; scales cycloid. Spinous and 

 cartilaginous dorsal fins continuous; caudal rounded; anal with two spines. 

 Lateral line distinct, not interrupted. Operculum with regularly convex 

 posterior border. Teeth coarsely villiform, without canines. Both spinous 

 and soft portions of dorsal and anal fins moderately scaly. 



This well marked genus is established on the remains of fifteen indi- 

 viduals, in various states of preservation, so that the characters undis- 

 tinguishable in one, can be discovered in another. Thus the lateral line is 

 preserved in one only, and the teeth in another. In none can I be entirely 

 sure that I see the vomer. 



The scales are preserved in many specimens, and I cannot find a ctenoid 

 margin in any, nor any radiating sculpture, but delicate concentric ridges 

 continued round the central point proximally, distally forming parabolic 



