126 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Lows. 
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 G. 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, J anuary, 1889. A report of 
Observations made by the Washington University 
Eclipse Party at Norman, California,” 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 
