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The donations for the month were as follows: from G. H. Curtis, two 

 microscopic slides; from F. W. Putnam, two pamphlets; from J. S. New- 

 berry, one pamphlet; from Walter A. Dan. one pamphlet; from Signal 

 Service Officer, " Monthly Weather Review'' for April, 1885; from S. T. 

 Carley, three specimens of Liparis lilliifolia, and a box of fossils from 

 Sumpter Co., Alabama; from Smithsonian Institution, "Pro. U. S. Nat. 

 Museum,'* Vol. VIII, Nos. 6 to 11: from Geo. W. Keck, specimen of 

 wood with larvae burrows; from Jos. F. James, specimens of Holly wood; 

 from Director of the U. S. Geol. Survey, Vol. VI of Monographs; from 

 T. H. Wise, one pamphlet ; from A. R. Crandall, nine maps of Geol. 

 Survey of Kentucky: from A. B. Carnahan, one Indian relic. 



Meeting of August 4, 1885. 

 Mr. Chas. Dury in the chair, president proton., and ten members 

 present. 



The following paper was read and referred to the Publishing Com- 

 mittee : 



REMARKS OX THE GENERA L EPID OLITES, AXOMA- 

 LOIDES. ISCHADITES AXD RECEPTACULITES, 

 FROM THE CINCINNATI GROUP. 



Bv Prof. Joseph F. James, 



Custodian Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



In the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. 

 II, page 20, there was characterized by Mr. E. O. Ulrich a genus of fos- 

 sils under the name of Lepidolites. The specimens upon which the genus 

 was founded were obtained near Covington, Ky., in the shales of the 

 lower part of the Cincinnati Group. "They consist,"' the author says, "of 

 much flattened calcareous bodies, which in their original state must have 

 had, in the type species, a sub-spherical and in the other species a sub- 

 cylindrical form." They were hollow, and the outer surface was covered 

 with small plates or scales over-lapping one another. 



L. dickhauti was described as having been flattened from a sub-spher- 

 ical or sub-pyriform shape, with an indentation at the bottom. The scales 

 on the outside were imbricated, "with the exposed margin rounded, and 

 arranged in concentric lines, crossing each other in a quincuncial man- 

 ner." " The appearance presented by a specimen that is flattened vertic- 

 ally, is very like that style of ornamental work on watch cases called ' rose- 



