Annual Meeting.] 
438 
[May 4, 
Paleontology. 
MissE. D. Boardman lias finished the collection of Planorbidae 
made at Steinheim by the Curator, and lias terminated this tedious 
and difficult piece of work, which has lasted for several years, by 
picking out a duplicate series for use in the Dynamical collection 
as mentioned under the appropriate heading. This lady has also 
begun work upon the collections made in a similar locality near 
St. Johns, New Brunswick, by Mr. Matthews of St. Johns and 
the Curator some years since. This, if carried on to a successful 
result, will include a large amount of original work for which Miss 
Boardman’s training in the separation and arrangement of the 
Steinheim collection is an excellent preparation. 
Microscopic Collections. 
Mrs. Ramsay, having been requested by the Curator to look over 
the miscellaneous collections heretofore kept together under this 
title, for the purpose of arranging and classifying them in a more 
natural way, has completed this part of the work and reports upon 
the present condition of the Bailey and other collections as 
follows 
The mounted part of the Bailey collection consists of about 874 
slides, in fairly good condition. 
Of the twenty-four boxes containing these slides, fourteen 
are wholly or mainly filled with diatoms, both fossil and re- 
cent. 
The mounting of the diatoms is very crude, much dirt and 
flocculent matter being in each slide, they are not sorted, and 
many a«e only fragments. All the species are named, however, 
and represent a wide range of localities. The specimens can 
be found, on the slides, by the aid of an “indicator,” which is 
an invention apparently of the mounter, and difficult to use. 
The glass is very opaque and thick, and mostly with rough 
edges. 
Five boxes contain recent and some fossil Foraminifera 
mounted but not named ; Globigerina and Textularia are the most 
abundant genera. Many of these are casts, having been treated 
with acid and showing the brown sarcode of the inside. Some 
also are glauconite casts in the greensand. The Foraminifera are 
not sorted, and not very well cleaned. 
