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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



He was well acquainted with the medicinal qualities of herbs, and had 

 considerable knowledge of chemistry and medicine. 



In person he was short, spare, and stooped with age, brisk in his 

 movements, and walked usually with a cane.* 



He was a life-long member of the First Baptist Church. Uniting 

 with that congregation when he first came to the city, he continued a 

 constant attendant till his death. He was licensed by his church in 1842, 

 and has more than once served in the capacity of preacher. He never 

 obtruded his religious opinions upon any one. He was a simple- 

 hearted believer in Christianity, who "looked through nature up to 

 Nature's God, ' and saw in the humblest flower " the revelation of His 

 love." To one who visited him in his last illness, he said that with 

 St. Augustine he could say , " Spes mea Christus." In this hope he 

 died. With us he still lives in memory as a man whose love for 

 nature was pure and childlike, and beyond any expectation of gain. 



Davis L. James. 



DESCRIPTION OF A BEAUTIFUL STAR FISH AND 

 OTHER FOSSILS. 

 By S. A. Miller. 

 Pal^easter magnificds, n. sp. 



(Plate IV., Fig. 3, ventral view, natural size; Fig. 3a, dorsal view of the same specimen, 

 natural size.) 



This is a very large species, from the Lower Silurian rocks, equaled 

 in size only by P. dyeri. It is founded upon a free specimen showing 

 both the dorsal and ventral sides, and nearly all the characters except 

 the madreporiform tubercle, which can not be fully distinguished. 

 The rays have been broken and mended, as shown in the illustration, 

 and some of the parts are not in their proper places, but this does not 

 detract very largely from the value of the specimen. 



The diameter or breadth of the disc is one and one fourth inches, 

 and the distance from the point of one ray to the point of the opposite 

 one, if the rays were wholly preserved in the specimen under exam- 

 ination, would be fully six inches. It may be distinguished from 

 P. dyeri by having proportionallv a smaller disc and more slender 

 and elongated rays. 



The plates upon the dorsal side are very convex, and part of them. 



* His favorite walking stick was a woody stem of ArtsmUia. 



