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from the Author ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., from 
ps Academy ; K. Danske Vidensk. Selskab Skrifter, V. 
and, 1-2 Heft,— Oversigt, 1 Aaret 1858, from the So- 
—Darstellung oa Stabeisen u. Rohstahl-Bereitung, von Peter 
vagy the Society ; Gedenkblatt fiir Alex. von Humboldt, von 
- Trautschold, Moskau, 1859, from Dr. A. Senoner, 
F. Shumard,dated Austin, 
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y read some extracts from a 
of the p of his inves- 
Jan. 5, 1860, giving intelligence 
at the base of the Cretaceous group on 
0.1 of the Nebraska 
in which the writer, 
a bed of rounded’ 
sting on the Cretaceous and sometimes on 
the supposed Jurassic, and we have examined 
i in the rent Bluff. We have 
but i atter fresh-water 
and at some points we have 
bones of ruminants and fossil w 
A large box of minerals and fossils collected by Mr. H. En- 
- gelmann, Geologist of the U. S. Expedition to the Rocky 
Mountains, in 1856, under Lieut. F, T. Bryan, U. 8. A., was 
presented to the Academy in the name of Lieut. Bryan ; and 
