28 PROCEEDINGS OF BROOKLYN MEETING. 



Professor W. B. Scott asked permission to present the following — 



JSOTE ON FLORENTINO AMEGHINO'S LATEST PAPER ON PATAGONIAN 



PALEONTOLOGY 



BY W. B. SCOTT 



I desire to call attention briefly to Ameghino's latest paper, ''Enumeration 

 synoptique des especes de mammiferes fossiles des formations Eocenes de Patago- 

 nie," Buenos Aires, .1894, that contains some very important facts for the estimation 

 of the geologic age of the Patagonian Tertiary formations, which have yielded 

 such an abundant and interesting mammahan fauna. The Santa Cruz beds are 

 now proved to overUe the " Patagonian" beds instead of underlying them. 



Ameghino still maintains the Eocene age of these beds, but European and North 

 American paleontologists have repeatedly pointed out the modern character of 

 their mammals and have referred them to the Miocene. The latter view is defi- 

 nitely confirmed by the occurrence of true whales (Balsena) in the " Patagonian " 

 beds. The extraordinary isolation and peculiarity of this fauna offers few other 

 terms for direct comparison with the Miocenes of the northern hemisphere. 



The Sixth Summer Meeting was then declared adjourned. 



Register of the Brooklyn Summer Meeting 

 The following Fellows were in attendance upon this meeting: 



F. D. Adams. W J McGee. 



G. H. Barton. F. J. H. Merrill. 

 Samuel Calvin. F. H. Newell. 



B. K. Emerson. W. N. Rice. 



H. L. Fairchild. Heinrich Ries. 



A. E. FooTE. W. B. Scott. 



A. C. Gill. N. S. Shaler. 



C. H. Hitchcock. W. H. Sherzer. 

 G. A. HoLLicK. J. P. Smith. 

 Jed Hotchkiss. J. W. Spencer. 

 E. 0. HovEY. J. J. Stevenson. 

 H. C. HovEY. A. S. Tiffany. 

 E. E. Howell. I. C. White. 



J. F. Kemp. R. P. Whitfield. 



A. C. Lane. H. S. Williams. 



Joseph Le Conte. 



FelloiDs-elect 



Florence Bascom. L. G. Westgate. 



D. F. Lincoln. 



Total attendance, 34. 



