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packing. The Museum is now in possession of two barrels and 

 one large box of specimens of the Pentamerus laqueatus, in its usual 

 mode of occurrence, collected at Delphi. This collection will 

 furnish abundant material for selecting a very good series for 

 illustration and for the arranged Museum collections, while there 

 will still remain an abundant supply for distribution to schools 

 and academies. 



In company with Prof. Collett I visited the remarkable locality 

 of Niagara fossils on Conn's creek, in the town of Waldron 

 Indiana, which has been made famous through the publication of 

 the Twenty-eighth Eeport on the New York State Museum of 

 Natural History. Fortunately for the Museum collections and 

 for our present purposes a large collection of fossils from this 

 locality was secured many years since, when the ground was free 

 for all collectors. The outcrop of the shale and limestone along 

 the creek margin is now parceled out in small claims by the 

 adjacent land-owners. The many hundreds of tons of refuse 

 material, which after the selection of the fossils remain in heaps 

 along the line of the creek, attest the extent of the working of the 

 rock to secure its inclosed organic remains. Probably no locality 

 in the United States, with the possible exception of Crawfords- 

 ville, has ever been worked, for the fossils alone, so extensively as 

 the Niagara beds at Waldron. 



An examination of the banks of the stream, swollen by recent 

 rains, offered very little encouragement to the collector unless 

 prepared with drills and hammers and abundant help, with plenty 

 of time on his hands. The collections of the State Museum from 

 this locality are very good and very abundant, and I was not able 

 to add anything to the material already possessed for the illustra- 

 tion of the Brachiopoda of this locality. 



The collectors of fossils at Waldron and its vicinity, Dr. K. R. 

 Washburn, of Waldron, and Drs. J. W. and R M. Howard, and Dr. 

 Benjamin Jenkins, of St. Paul, have within the past years dis- 

 covered a few new forms from this locality, and notably among 

 them two or more species of Cystideans ; but so far as observed 

 no new forms among the Brachiopoda. It is not likely that new 

 material will soon be obtained to supersede or seriously impair 

 the value, for reference, of the paper published in the Twenty- 

 eighth Museum Report. 



At Muncie, Indiana, Dr. A. J. Phinney has an extensive and 



