







388 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
two jiga are formed, one on either side. This mountain extends 
its flat summit for miles, its surface edge being a boia bluff of black ap 
pearing rock, with little or no vegetation upon its 
Among 
shovels used in cooking, by placing them upon or into the burning fi 
a mortar or dish, some instruments resembling nnn ; 
s. 
Professor E. D. Cope read a paper on a new and giganti 
segale platyurus) from the Cretaceous formation of Cental 
as. Pr nary to it he stated that one hundred species of North 
ican k reptiles and batrachians were kno "a to him, of wh 
wenty were yet unpublished. He gave a synopsis of the characters of 
the Dinosauria, showing their nearer affinity to we: birds than that pre- 
- sented by the Pterodactyles, in the structure of the pelvis, the tibia, fibula, 
tarsus, etc. He alluded to the great number of extinct t torte j 
-Mak and ase same which encloses the layer of red 
rab Minnesota. 
Bi App stated in regard to the Effect of pore 
icc on the Eruptions of the Great Geyser of Iceland, j 
o ralh who visited Iceland in 1809, mentions that maasti 
most frequently romret in fair weather, and me 
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