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Wm, Wiswell, through Dr. A. E. Heighway, Sr., specimen of wood and 

 bark of Sequoia gigantea, California; from E. A. Keeshan, specimen of 

 Horned Toad ; from A. E. Heighway, Jr., one volume, Gordon's Pinetum; 

 from Mrs. Chas. Dury, 108 species N. A. Coleoptera. 

 Adjourned. 



Tuesday Evening, September 2, 1884. 

 Vice-President Harper presiding. Eleven members present. 

 Minutes of August meeting read and approved. 



Col. James W. Abert read a paper on the " Village Indians of New 

 Mexico," illustrating his remarks with blackboard sketches. 

 Referred to Publishing Committee. 



Prof. J. F. James presented a paper on " The Fucoids of the Cincinnati 

 Group. " The author held that many of the markings on the rocks 

 hitherto referred to organic origin are probably due to such natural phe- 

 nomena as rainfall on muddy flats, or to waves running over soft mud. 



Prof. Harper said that the thoughts brought forward by Mr. James 

 were quite similar to those passing through his mind during a sojourn at 

 the seashore this summer. 



The paper was referred. 



A letter from Mr. Chas. Dury, asking that a committee be appointed to 

 procure from the Exposition Commissioners, if possible, a collection of 

 minerals from Colorado, now on exhibition. 



The Society thanked Mr. Dury for his letter, and referred it to the Exe- 

 cutive Board for attention. 



The Society then adjourned. 



Donations were received as follows : From C. B. Going, seeds of Spar- 

 ganium eurycarpum ; from Signal Service Bureau, Monthly Weather Re- 

 view for June, 1884; from Dr. D. T. D. Dyche, specimen of Fossil 

 Sponge and Depranodus arcuatus, from near Lebanon, Ohio ; from Prof. 

 F. W. Putnam, one pamphlet; from U. S. National Museum — Plates VIII. 

 to XIV. inclusive, to Vol. VI., Proceedings U. S. National Museum; from 

 John Schimmel, Ohio Statistics for 1881 ; from Chas. E. Beecher, pamphlet 

 on Ceratiocaridae ; from Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report for 1882 ; 

 from U. S. Fish Commission, Nos. 9 to 16 of Bulletin of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission ; from Lieut. Thos. L. Casey, two copies of " Contributions 

 to Descriptive and Systematic Coleopterology of North America," Part L; 

 from Zoological Garden, Cincinnati, specimens of Cercocebus collaris, 

 Gynocephalus Mormon, Lemur brunneus, Cebus fatuellus, Semnopithecus 

 entellus, Dasyprocta punctata, Erinaceus Europwus and Didelphys quica ; 



