LE ROY C. COOLEY. 141 



For rows of larger drawers or of cupboard doors, a 

 strong hard wood slat, about one and one-half inches 

 wide, by three-quarters of an inch thick, and long enough 

 to reach the length of from four to six drawers, is hinged 

 to the woodwork, just above their tops. A brass plate 

 projects from behind the middle of the slat, with a slit 

 which fits over a staple, firmly fixed in the wood below. 

 A small padlock secures the whole. The friction on the 

 hinges can be easily made sufficient to keep the slat from 

 falling; when lifted. 



MARCH 26, 1884— TWENTY-FOURTH STATED MEETING. 



Prof. W. B. Dwight, chairman, presiding ; eighteen 

 members and guests present. 

 The following paper was read : 



REPORT OF PROGRESS IN GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION 

 IN THE VICINITY OF POUGHKEEPSIE. 



PROF. W. B. DWIGHT. 



The two papers on this subject which I have previously 

 presented before Poughkeepsie audiences, were read in 

 the meetings of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural 

 Science, to which our present society is virtually the 

 successor. The first of these papers was read April 21, 

 1880, and was published in the proceedings of the 

 society for that year. After giving a resume of former 

 investigations, it took up the more recent ones, describ- 

 ing the finding of numerous Hudson Rfver group fossils 

 in our shales, by Mr. T. N. Dale, the subsequent discov- 

 eries of fossils of the Trenton group by Prof. J. D. Dana 

 and myself, and the still later identification by myself, 

 of calciferous fossils at Salt Point and Rochdale. 



A second paper was presented in 1881, which, however, 

 was never published, owing to the throes of dissolution 



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