60 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
pying an intermediate position. s the hinder limbs of Pterodactylus the 
ser 
with birds. The President, in reply, stated that Hypsilophodon, from the 
character of its teeth, probably subsisted on hard vegetable food. He 
expressed a hope that Mr. Fox would allow a closer examination of his 
n 
distinct than to authorize the creation of fresh divisions. — Nature, Lon- 
on. 
ossıL Horse IN Missovnr.— In the Transactions of the St. Louis 
Academy of Science (Vol. ii, p. 418), Professor diei announced the 
discovery of horse remains in s altered drift of Kansas. 
I have now the honor to announce that similar ani have recently 
been discovered in a well at Papinville, Bates County, Missouri. Mr. O. 
P. Ohlinger procured a tooth at the depth of thirty-one feet from the sur- 
face, resting in a bed of sand beneath a four inch stratum of bluish clay and 
gravel. Above the last was thirty feet ten inches of yellowish clay reach- 
ing to the surface. Beneath the sand, containing the tooth, was a gravel 
bed five feet in thickness, consisting mostly of rounded pebbles resembling 
river gravel, generally hornstone, many partially, eus some firmly a adher- 
ether 
ing toget ther pebbles shown me from the e bed were of iron 
ore, coal dd Prepih sandstone. I was ide Mb that some re- 
mains of fluviatile shells were found. I sent the tooth to Professor 
Joseph Leidy of Philadelphia, and he pronomeed it to be the last upper 
molar of a horse, probably an extinct specie 
From a similar gravel bed on the banks it pee des Cygne, a fragment 
of a tusk was «it me resembling very much that of a mammoth. Its 
whole length was said to be seven feet four inches. About ten miles 
above Papinville, the banks of Marais des Cygne River appear to be of a 
similar formation to the well of Ohlinger, consisting of about twelve feet 
of brown sandy clay resting on ten feet of blue clay with many pebbles 
of worn gravel at the lower part. 
These gravel beds I consider as of more recent age than the drift, but 
older than the bluff or loess, and regard them as altered drift. They seem 
rather to ME on the Osage and its tributaries, and are often reached 
in vind we 
tooth tok Maysville, oe was found in altered drift at a depth 
of forty-five feet from the su 
Dr. Albert Koch exhumed the f haoa Missourium (Mastodon giganteus), 
from a bed u gravel and clay on Pomme de Terre River, twenty feet be- 
low the surface. In these beds of altered drift we may therefore expect 
to find many interesting remains of mammals. — bs C. Broapneap (Read 
gles the St. Louis — of. Science, Nov. 15, 
