﻿March, 1855.] 



ELLIOTT SOCIETY. 



21 



MAECH 6th, 1855. 



Professor Holmes in the chair. 



Letters were read from the following gentlemen, severally 

 acknowledging having received a notice of their election as 

 correspondents. J. Hamilton Couper, Esq., Darien, Geo.; 

 T. A. Conrad, Esq., Philadelphia ; Geo. Ord, Esq., Philadel- 

 phia ; Prof. Joseph Leidy, Philadelphia ; Kev. A. Glennie, 

 Waccamaw, S. C; Prof. J. P. Kirtland, Cleveland, Ohio ; 

 Senor Don Francis A. Sauvalle, Havana ; Prof. J. Wyman, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. ¥m. S. Zantzinger, Philadelphia ; 

 Charles O. Boutelle, Esq., U. S. Coast Survey. 



Members Elected. 

 Dr. Julius T. Porcher. Dr. Geo. S. Pelzer. 



Pev. U. Sinclair Bird. 



The committee of Curators, to whom was referred the pa- 

 per of Prof. Holmes, describing new fossil Balani from the 

 Eocene marl of South Carolina, reported the same for publi- 

 cation in the proceedings. 



Descriptions of New Fossil Balani, from the Eocene Marl of Ashley River, 

 S. C. By Francis S. Holmes. 

 Balanus dig-itatus. Plate L, figs. 9 to 12. 

 Shell subcorneal, oblique ; valves with longitudinal furrows, having promi- 

 nent ribs, which are sometimes digitated near the base, one or more uniting 

 to form a single rib, which is continuous to the summit, or interrupted by 

 lines of growth, often rugged, and causing abrupt transverse ridges; inter- 

 stices smooth, narrow, deep. 



Balanus calceolus. Plate I., figs. 1 to 8. 

 Shell elongated before and behind ; anterior and posterior valves com- 

 pressed, carinated; valves longitudinally and finely striated; interstices wide 

 with indistinct flat ribs extending from base to summit, and regularly and 

 beautifully striated transversely. 



Contributions to Museum. 

 Hon. John S. Ashe — Head and antlers of Moose Deer 

 Oervus Alces, and a large collection of curious antlers of the 

 Carolina deer Cervus Virginianus. 



