﻿TEE JOTJR1TAL 



OF THE 



Cigcinnati Society of Natural History, 



Vol. VII. Cincinnati, January, 1885. No. 4. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Tuesday, October 7, 1884. 

 William Hubbell Fisher, President, pro tern. 



Prof. A. D. Morrill, College Hill, Ohio, was proposed for membership. 



A committee of three, composed of Prof. Jos. F. James, Edw. M. Cooper 

 and Dr. Walter A. Dun, was appointed by the Chairman to arrange a 

 course of free lectures during the winter. 



The Librarian, A. E. Heighway, Jr., made some remarks relative to a 

 recent visit to Washington. 



The following papers were read and referred to the Publishing Com- 

 mittee : 



FUCOIDS OF THE CINCINNATI GROUP. 



By Prof. Joseph F. James, 

 Custodian of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



(Concluded from page 132.) 



RECENT BURROWS AND TRAILS. 



Next to mud markings on recent flats and river banks, those referable to 

 trails and burrows come to be considered. 



One of the first things to be noticed in studying these marks, is the wide 

 difference in the appearance of those made on the very soft mud nearest 

 the water, and those on that higher up and partially hard and dry. On 

 the surface of the first the tracks have no shape at all ; they form irregular 

 depressions, which, higher up on the bank, appear definite. Here there is 

 considerable room for errors in identification of certain marks, for those 

 made by the same animal form would appear unlike in both places. It 



