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the following articles: — On some new species of fossils 

 from the Cretaceous formation of Nebraska Territory, 

 by John Evans and B. F. Shumard; Description of a new 

 species of Productus from the Carboniferous limestone 

 of St. Louis, by Hiram A. Prout; Observations on gly- 

 cerin, by James Schiel ; Phyllotaxis — its numeric and di- 

 vergential law explicable under a simple organological 

 idea, by T. C. Hilgard ; Mastodon remains, in the State of 

 Missouri, together with evidences of the existence of Man 

 contemporaneously with the Mastodon, by Albert C. 

 Koch; Notice of a burnt brick from the ruins of Nineveh, 

 by Gr. Seyffarth; Indian stone graves in Illinois, by A. 

 Wislizenus; Description of new fossil Crinoidea from the 

 Palaeozoic rocks of the western and southern portions of 

 the United States, by B. F. Shumard ; Belcher and Broth- 

 ers Artesian well, by A. Litton ; Meteorological observa- 

 tions for 1856 made in St. Louis by Drs. Engelmann and 

 Wislizenus. 



Since its organization the Academy has issued twenty- 

 two volumes of Transactions, and on two occasions spe- 

 cial works. One, entitled ' ' Contributions to the Archae- 

 ology of Missouri" by the Archaeological Section, is de- 

 voted to the description and illustration of the pottery 

 obtained by a party from the Academy which investi- 

 gated the mounds in the neighborhood of New Madrid. 

 In 1889 the Academy sent observers into the field to study 

 the total eclipse of that year. Their report, entitled 

 " Total Eclipse of the Sun, January, 1889. A report of 

 Observations made by the Washington University 

 Eclipse Party at Norman, Calif ornia, ' ' was published by 

 the Academy in a quarto of 39 pages and 6 plates. 



While no serious efforts were made after the fire of 

 1869 during some thirty years to re-establish the museum, 

 the energies of the Academy during that time were de- 

 voted to the formation of a library by the liberal ex- 

 change of publications. The first society to recognize 

 the new organization was the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia, which donated to the library a set 



