THE JOURNAL 
OF THE 
LINGINNATE NIGHETY OF MATURAL HISTORY 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 
Turspay Evenine, October 4, 1881. 
Dr. R. M. Byrnes, President, in the chair. Present, 20 members. 
The Executive Board announced the purchase of the casts of 37 
crania, a Glyptodon, and parts of a Mastodon, Dinotherium, Castorot- 
des ohioensis, Plestosaurus macrocephalus, Ichthyosaurus communis, 
Hipparion elegans, and Pterodactylus crasstrostris, with the cast of 
the egg of Apyornis marimus, and some bone implements from the 
Swiss lake dwellings. 
Also the skeletons of Pieropus edvardsi, Apteryx oweni, Naja tri- 
pudians, Uromastrixz spinites, Rana mugiens, Morrhua vulgaris, Raja- 
batis, and the femur of Loris gracilis. 
L. $. Cotton made some remarks upon the mountain scenery of 
Europe and America, and was followed upon the same subject by M. 
D. Burke and J. R. Challen. 
. Donations were announced as follows: 
From Peter G. Thomson, a valuable collection of prehistoric relics, 
consisting of pottery ware, shell, stone and bone implements, pipes, 
human remains, etc.: from Joel Brown, a young soft-sheiled turtle; 
from Dr, A. Gattinger, a specimen of granite; from L. Dressel, a speci- 
men of Dynastes tityrus ; from J. F. James, fossils, plants and insects 
from New Harmony, Ind., and minerals from Alabama and Texas; 
