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marasaurus, and Ampliccelias (Camarasaurus supremus, Am- 
plicelias altus, and A. latus), and gave their detailed descrip- 
tions in a paper entitled : 
“On the Vertebrata of the Dakota epoch of Colorado. By 
EK. D. Cope,” with two others: viz. (see page 193). 
“ Descriptions of New Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary 
formations of the West. By EH. D. Cope;” (see page 219). 
“On some saurians found in the Triassic of Pennsylvania 
by C. M. Wheatly. By H. D. Cope;” (see page 281). 
Prof. Frazer exhibited two framed plaster casts of the 
Arms of Lord Baltimore, restored from half destroyed sculp- 
tures on the mile stones of Mason & Dixon’s boundary line be- 
tween the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was read and the 
recommendations contained therein adopted. 
On the recommendation of the Finance Committee in 
their report, the following resolution was adopted, viz: 
Resolved, That the Committee of Finance be authorized and directed to 
take the needful steps for the sale of the French rentes now held as an 
investment for the Michaux Legacy and when the proceeds are received 
into the treasury to make an investment thereof here in such securities as 
are designated by law for the investment of trust funds. 
Pending nominations 840 to 850, and new nominations 
851, were read. 
And the meeting was adjourned. 
Note TO PAGE 270.—Prof. Stevenson in a private letter dated January 
15, 1878, writes that in the Crinoidal Limestone of the Barren Measures 
Spirifer planoconvexa is characteristically abundant, and has the same 
mode of occurrence in the rock, which Ambocoeiia wmbonata has in the 
Chemung, but should not be mistaken for it. 
ERRATA for Proceedings A. P. 8. Vol. XVI. No. 99. 
On page 624, line 12, substitute ‘‘that of the Sun, and the light received 
from it 75 times that received from A 61 Cygni, we obtain the following 
relations :’’ &c. ; 
On page 625, line 25, for ‘‘fact of’ read ‘‘fact that.’’ 
