446 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
r. Scudder exhibited a photograph of another fossil wing, found 
in an Carboniferous rocks of Cape Breton. It was _— in struc- 
ture, of — yea ~ probably belonged to the May fli 
es of a visit to the Pinjrapal, or animal hospital a Bombay, 
were read es Mr. W. P ee gham. A space of six or seven acres in 
the heart of the city was enclosed, and divided into wards, for the re- 
ception of sick and helpless animals ; cattle, deer, dogs, goats, mon- 
keys, and even tortoises, had all their separate abodes; fish, too, res- 
cued from impending death by the pious Hindoos, whe religion for- 
bids ag Gernot of animal life, swam unmolested in their proper 
tan urgical aid seemed to be given, but the aren were well 
fed ss cared for by a large staff of attendants or nurses. There are 
several of these establishments in India, supported Éy the donations 
of wealthy Hindoos. 
April 18, 1867.— Dr. Jeffries Wyman gave an account of an excur- 
sion he had recently made to the St. John’s river, Florida, for the 
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ered in the sand under a shell mound eight feet high. The nor 
were principally univalves of the mee Ampullaria and Pal 
some fresh-water mussels, Unionid: 
The age of these mounds was not pt es but the occasional 
occurrence of live oaks five feet in diameter proved that the mounds 
_ had not been materially eps since the advent of the white man, 
more than three centuries ag 
There was a marked aeeoe in the fragments of pottery belonging 
to different localities. Specimens from the upper portion of the river 
wore slightly ornamented by square and regular indentations; those 
from the rhood of Lake Munroe were marked b; y complicated 
figures, traced on the clay with a pointed instrument, ae near the 
