JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 697 
Above the village the capping Sa ne has dis a 
base of the b he Warsaw Limestone crops out containing all the fos- 
sils enumerated the note quoted above, with the exception 
of Productus elegans, Nor. & Prat., which Mr. W. has never seen but in 
ne. 
The second locality, mentioned by Dr. S. in the note referred to as ex- 
* Fg A ffs 
= 
t W., nothing but the Upper Archimedes or Chester Limestone 
overlaid by the vo it of the Millstone-grit series; the Ferruginous 
Sandstone and the Limestone under it are far beneath the level of the riv- 
r bottom 
According to Mr. W.’s Lape ig the Warsaw Limestone disappears 
under the surface abo ove Prairie du Rocher; at that place, the St. Louis 
amile and a half lower down; the Ferruginous Sandstone is then the 
only rock seen for about four miles further, when the Chester Limestone 
takes its place, and, together with the overlying sandstone of the Millstone- 
i Kaskaskia and Mississippi rivers 
ty. 
The following-section of these rocks was made 7 the bluff about mid- 
way between the mouth of Mary’s “River and Li 
Massive — shaly sandstone with fossil one a CE, Lagi. 
de ndro n, Sigillaria, EtG. seeeree aeseee wenn eee eee 80 feet. 
Upper Chester Limestone, with Pentr Archimedes, 
Athyris subquadrata, A. sublamellosa, Raza te ery Spare ie e- oy 
ens, Allorisma, and Pinna aeeeee te weer 
with terrestrial. plants, 
plates of limestone with Fish teeth and Marine s ‘ 
plant-bearing bed of the Menstait Limestone series:+++ +++: 7 
Lower Pesge Limestone with’ bie coo C 
, P. symmetricus, Product sg Agassizocrinus | 2 ork 
species), 5s big alg inosus, “6 Tai 76 a Retzia costa-  « 
ete anhe 8908 0847 09 4? 
The resented, in the name of 
Capt. el ol U> setae of Bird-skins, from 
the Smithsonian Institution, collected by Capt. Pope, in Tex- 
as and New Mexico, and labelled and Caaibered according to 
the Smithsonian Catalogue, 
viz: 5027, T'iinnunculus sparverius; 10301, 
al 
of monstrosity in the development of the head and neck. 
Dr. C. W. Stevens, who had examined the case, remarked : 
he found there was appare 
the sides of the neck, about one 
cece 0K “Laven in the neck, of a ina thn ign 
r slit of about one Le in 
neath the Gpaee oe jaw ; “hs fe fissure W unded above by the palate ; from 
the fissure a probe passed to a cul vp os; common to this vestige of a 
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