THE JOURNAL 
INT WLTY TURAL STIR 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCTETY. 
Turspay Evenine, July 2, 1881. 
Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair. Present, 18 members. 
F S. A. Miller, read part of a paper, entitled “Observations on the 
_ Unification of Geological Nomenclature, with special reference to the 
Silurian formation of North America,” which he had prepared to be 
read before the International Geological Congress, which assembled, 
in September, at Bologna, Italy. 
Donations were announced as follows : | 
From Messrs. Ellison, four species of bird-skins, and two specimens 
of bryozoans ; from Robert Clarke, 60 species marine algee—named ,; 
from G. Holterhoff, jr., forty-one species of native birds’ eggs, and 
ninety species of land shells; from Davis L. James, nine species of 
seeds ; from Dr. Bronson, one bottle of ashes from a mound in West 
Virginia, and a viviparous fish from California ; from J. F. James, a 
tree-frog, and the skull of a crow; from Kittredge & Co., the U. 8. 
Business Directory for 1878 ; from J. H. & B. M, Seaman, a section of 
_ wooden water-main from the streets of Cincinnati—supposed date 1815; 
trom Captain A. H. Bugher, through Dr. A. E. Heighway, a magnificent 
starfish from Florida; from Dr. A. E. Heighway, a fine specimen of 
Peterygotus bilobus, from Buffalo, N. Y.; from W. C. Egan, Chicago, 
Ill., Saccocrinusmarcouanus, 8. necis, S. infelix, Melocrinus obpyra- 
