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At New Albany, Ind., I was able to obtain, by .purchase from 

 Mr. G. K. Greene, a collection of several hundred specimen* of 

 Brachiopoda, representing about twenty species and twelve 

 genera of Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous Brachiopoda. I 

 also abtained from him the loan of a few interesting specimens 

 showing internal structure.* 



I visited Crawfordsville in the expectation of being able to 

 secure a good collection of Carboniferous Brachiopoda, but the 

 principal collector of this locality, Prof. Bassett, having died 

 since my last visit to the place, and the localities for collecting 

 being now monopolized for the purpose of procuring the 

 Crinoidea, for which this place is so famous, I did not accomplish 

 as much as I had hoped. I was able to purchase a few speci- 

 mens from the collectors in the neighborhood, and these, together 

 with those derived from a former collection made at this locality j 

 will give a fair representation of the prevailing forms of this 

 region for our Museum collections. 



The Museum of the Wabash University contains a very rich 

 collection of the Crinoidea and other fossils from this prolific 

 locality. Prof. Coulter, of the University, afforded me free access 

 to the fossils in the Museum, and also loaned to me for use in the 

 volume several species of Carboniferous Spirifera which are in a 

 better state of preservation than any specimens of the same 

 species seen elsewhere. 



I may here mention that Mr. Kjrout, the possessor of the 

 remarkable form of Dictyospongida? (Cleodictya gloriosa), has 

 loaned to me the original specimen for use in the final prepara- 

 tion and publication of the memoir upon these sponges. 



At Indianapolis I visited the State Geological Museum, which 

 has been elaborately arranged in the new Capitol. The collec- 

 tion is an extensive one and contains a large amount of interesting 

 material. I found, however, upon examining the Brachiopoda 

 that I had already secured the use of similar material, and there- 

 fore made no application for the loan of specimens. Prof. Collett, 

 under whose administration this collection was chiefly made, 

 offered me every facility for its examination. The private collec- 

 tions in Indianapolis are not numerous or extensive. 



At Delphi, Indiana, I visited the quarries in the Niagara lime- 



* Those hnve been recalled before we had an opportunity of making use of the 

 material, 



