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VOL. VIII. CINCINNATI, OCTOBER, 1885. No. 3. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting of July 7, 1885. 

 President Harper in the chair, and fourteen members present. 

 Dr. James A. Henshall and Geo. Schneider were elected to regular 

 membership. 



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

 mittee : 



REMARKS ON A SUPPOSED FOSSII FUNGUS FROM THE 

 CO A I MEASURES. 



By Prof. Joseph F. James, 



., Custodian Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



On October 19, 1877, Professor Leo Lesquereux read a paper before 

 the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, afterward published 

 in Vol. XVII (p. 173) of their "Proceedings," on "A species of Fungus 

 recently discovered in the Shales of the Darlington Coal Bed (Lower Pro- 

 ductive Coal Measures, Alleghany River Series) at Cannelton, Beaver 

 Co., Pennsylvania." After referring to a supposed species of fossil fun- 

 gus described by Lindley & Hutton, in 1831-33, under the name of 

 Polyporites Bowmanni, Prof. Lesquereux calls attention to certain similar 

 fragments found in the Anthracite measures in Pennsylvania, and adds: 

 that "There are in the Tertiary Lignitic of the Rocky Mountains some 



[Note. — -Through an oversight the following was omitted from the 

 proceedings of the meeting of June 2.] 



Messrs. Karl Langenbeck and H. C. Fithian were elected regular 

 members of the Society. 



The names of Dr. James A. Henshall and Mr. George Schneider 

 were proposed for membership. 



