698 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
mouth and the posterior nares. A circular opening in the neck was found 
to be leading both to the csophagus and the trachea; there was no pas- 
to the fissure before mentioned. Within this orifice the hyoid bone 
as we were informed, was born alive, and breathed through the open- 
ing in the neck, but died, a day or two afterwards, from inability to ob- 
tain nourishment. 
Mr. E. A. Filley — a polished block of gypsum, 
from the strata immediately overlying the rocks in which are 
found the Salt Springs, near Grand Rapids, in Michigan. 
March 5, 1860. 
The President, Dr. Prout, in the chair. 
Eleven members present. 
A letter was read from Dr. A. Schlottmann, of Roundtop, 
Texas, proposing to _ to the Academy a paper on “ Aphor- 
isms on Natural Scie 
The committee i pee was referred the paper of Ed. 
Miller, C. E., “On the Methods of obtaining Water for Rail- 
road purposes on the high prairies of Missouri,” reported the 
same for publication. 
Dr. H. A. Prout read a paper entitled “Descriptions of 
new species of Bryozoa from the Palzozic Rocks of the West- 
ern States and ee 4th series.” Referred to the Com- 
mittee on Publicat 
Dr. M. A. atten ‘selbentad an Ammonite from El Paso, 
New Mexico. 
March 19, 1860. 
Vice-President Dr. ENarELMANN in the chair. 
ty a. 
1360, from the Publishers ; bade: soit Sci. & Art, New 
Haver March, 1860; N. O. Med. & Surg. Jour., March, 1860, 
ditore r Jour: Frank. Inst., Phil., Mar., 1860, from 
the I Institute ; Canad. Jour. of Ind. Sci. & "Art, March, 1860, 
JSrom the Canadian Fustitute - ; Bulletin mens. de la Soc. Imp. 
