696 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
the thanks of the Academy were voted to Lieut. Bryan for 
his valuable donation. 
rederick von Hagenow, M.D., of Greifswald, Prussia, was 
elected a Corresponding Member. 
February 20, 1860. 
The President, Dr. H. A. Provt, in the chair. 
Six members present. 
A letter was read from the Librarian of the British Mu- 
seum, London, Dee. 20, 1859, acknowledging the receipt of 
the Transactions of the Academy; also, a letter from George 
860. 
Donations to the Library were received as follows: Trans. 
Roy. Scottish Soc. of Arts, Vol. V., part iii, Edinb., 1860, 
from the Society ; Bulletin mens. de la Soc. Imp. zool. @ 
Acciimatation, Tome VI, 1 
Jour. Frank. Inst., Philad., Feb., 1860, from the Institute ; 
1859,--Jan., 1860, from the Society ;, Memoir & Map of the 
er. of the 
School, 1859, from the Chicago Hist. Society ; Rep. of Cor- 
resp. & Papers of the Syro-Egyptian Soc., London, 1858-9, 
from the Society. . 
The committee to whom was referred the paper of Mr. A. 
H. Worthen, entitled “ Notice of anew species of Platycrinus 
and other fossils from the Mt. Limestone of Illinois and Iowa, 
being an extract from the 2nd Annual Report of the Illinois 
Geological Survey,” reported the same, with the accompany- 
ing drawings for a plate, for publication in the Transactions. 
The committee also recommended the following abstract 
of Mr: Worthen’s “Review of some points in Dr. B. F. Shu- 
mard’s Report on the Geology of Ste. Geneviéve County, 
Mo., for insertion in the Journal of Proceedings, viz: 
“Mr. Worthen considers the 2nd Archimedes or Ste. Genevieve ere 
stone of Dr. Shumard (see Trans. Acad. of Sci., St. Louis, p. 406 4 no oi 
ing but a part of the St. Louis Limestone, to which fossils of the Wars 
Limestone have oneously re In rst Illinois locali 
(Prairie du Rocher) mentioned by Dr. S. in the note to p. 409, L ais 
finds the entire bluff just back of the village to be formed of St. Lo of 
Limestone, ¢ te am other fossils by numerous specimens 
