Cope.] 168 ap Oct. 20, 
a Power of Attorney to M. Carlier, of Paris, to receive moneys 
on account of the Michaux Legacy. 
Donations for the Library were received from Doctor 
Zenaro, of Constantinople, the Union at Donauerschingen, the 
Prussian and Belgian Academies, Geographical Society at 
Paris, Annales des Mines, Revue Politique, the Meteorological 
Office and Nature of London, the Montreal Natural History 
Society, the American Academy, Natural History Society, 
and Old and New of Boston; Mr. Edmund Quincy, 
of Dedham, Massachusetts, the American Journal of Arts 
and Sciences; Doctor Squibb, of New York, the Franklin 
Institute, College of Pharmacy, and Penn Monthly, of Phila- 
delphia, the Census Bureau at Washington, and the Historical 
Society of Georgia at Savannah, 
An obituary notice of the late Doctor Rhoads, of Phila- 
delphia, was read by Doctor Henry Hartshorne. 
Professor Kirkwood’s paper on the Origin of the Solar 
System, was read by the Secretary. 
A letter from Professor Cope to the Secretary, on the 
reptile and Fish remains in the State Museum of Kansas, was 
read by the Secretary. 
Mr. Baird communicated his views on the cause of the 
decline of vegetable vitality in fruit trees, dating from the 
year 1860. 
Mr. Lesley read a note on some supposed Egyptian letters, 
in the Dolmen of Manelud, in Brittany. 
New nomination, No. 679 was read, and the meeting was 
adjourned. 
Note of some Cretaceous Vertebrata in the State Agricultural College of 
Kansas, U. S.A. 
By Epwarp D. Corr. 
Manwarran, Kansas, 1871. 
My DEAR Prov. LEsLey : 
A. visit to the State Agricultural College of Kansas at Manhattan, has 
enabled me to examine the cretaceous vertebrata contained in its collec- 
tion. Professor B. F, Mudge, already well known by his interesting dis- 
coveries among the Pythonomorph reptiles and Saurodont Fishes, has 
