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Treasurer — Dr. Enno Sander. 

 Librarian — Jno. J. Bailey. 

 Curator — Rich. Hays. 



Committee on Publication — Dr. G. Engelmann, W. T. 

 Harris, C. V. Riley, and N. Holmes. 

 Mr. J. Luce, J. L. Sanborn, and J. N Judson, were elected 

 associate members. 



yanuary 20, 1873. 



Vice-President Albert Todd in the chair. 



Eleven members present. 



Books and pamphlets received were laid upon the table. 



A revised but unprinted copy of the Constitution and By-Laws 

 was presented, and an amendment to Art. 4, Sec. 5, offered by 

 Mr. Todd, was laid over to be acted upon at the proper time. 



Mr. Riley presented a piece of stone showing very perfect 

 petrifactions of the spines of an Echinite. It was taken from the 

 bottom of a small stream near Kirkwood, where the specimens 

 were tolerably common. He also presented a piece of wood 

 which, though encountered at the bottom of a well 30 feet below 

 the surface of the ground, at Centralia, Ills., was scarcely car- 

 bonized at all. 



Judge Holmes made the following remarks on 



THE FOSSIL MAN OF THE MENTONK CAVE. 



In the London Lancet of Dec. 7, 1872, p. 818, an account is given by 

 J. Henry Bennet, M.D., of a complete human skeleton, discovered by the 

 French Geologist, M. E. Riviere, in the bone caverns at Mentone, on the 

 coast of the Mediterranean between Nice and Genoa, and now deposited 

 in the geological museum at Paris. The more notable facts stated are 

 these : skeleton six feet in length, skull dolicocephalic, not negroid ; teeth 

 nearly complete and worn flat; orbital cavities peculiar in length and 

 diameter ; found lying in an interior part of the cave at a depth of 19 feet 

 in the undisturbed deposits, with implements of flint, stone, bone and 

 deer-horn accompanying it, and with remains of the extinct mammalia of 

 the Post-Pleiocene period above, around, and below it. The facts seem 

 to be well authenticated. 



The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it furnishes the 

 first indubitable or undoubted instance of a human skeleton being found 

 in deposits contemporary with animals of the extinct fauna of the Post- 



