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the half dozen ‘specimens on Shelf No. IV., Articles 27, 28, 
29, 30, 31, 32. 
26. Organ-pipe madrepore, interspersed with pyrites ; 
very characteristic and instructive. Head of Delaware 
River. 
27. Various organic remains; consisting of entrochites, 
terebratulites, &c. Seneca town, Ontario county, 7 miles 
S. W. of Geneva village.—H. Post.— (For a spirulite of 
this collection, see Shelf V., No. 11, and seq.) 
28. Madreporites, &c. in calcareous carbonate, with 
pyrites. Shore of the Cayuga Lake. —Heermans. 
29. A very peculiar mytilite, more than two inches long, 
and nearly one inch and a half broad. ‘Two miles south 
of Cayuga Lake.—Searing. 
30. Terebratulas, &c. in argillite; fine specimen. Ver- 
non, Sussex, New-Jersey, near the sources of the Wallkill. 
31. Pectinites, of distinct character, in wacke. Twenty 
miles from the sea-shore, New-Jersey. 
32. Cardites, in clay-slate; very entire. Fredonia, 
Chatauque county, New-York.—Patton. 
33. Very distinct terebratulites, in hardened lay) or 
argillite. Madison county, New-York. 
_ 34. Cardiums, in white sand-stone. Cayuga county, 
New-York. 
35. Various specimens of terebratulites, cardites, &c., 
from different places, to the amount of a dozen or more. 
— Origin not distinctly marked, but believed to be properly 
arranged here. 
86. Skull and horns of the North American rein-deer, 
or caribou; dug from the bank of the Racket River, near 
the 45th degree of latitude; leading to a belief that this 
inhabitant of the colder regions sometimes has penetrated 
to the southward of the river St. Lawrence.—Colonel S. 
Hawkins. J 
37. Mass of petrified shells, and impressions in carbo- 
nate of lime; from Kaatskill ; characteristic of an elevated 
