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bed of St. Paul, Harris City, Greensburg and Osgood. The following is 
a connected section of the Niagara rocks of the state: 
No. 5. Blue shale (The Waldron fossil beds, 10 feet). Seen on Mill creek, a short dis- 
tance above the point where it flows into Flat Rock. 
No.4. Thinly laminated limestone quarries at St. Paul. thickness 15 feet; containing 
Pisocrinus gemmiformis 8. A. Miller; P. globosus Ringueberg; ‘‘pear shaped crin- 
oid;"* Stephanocrinus osgoodensis S. A. Miller. 
No. 3. Cherty beds, containing thin plates of limestone in which are found the same fos- 
sils as in No. 3, thickness 15 feet, on Flat Rock, St, Paul. 
No. 2. Heavy laminated quarry rock, containing fossils in No. 3 but not in such profu- 
sion, the upper or ‘“‘tlagging™ layers containing in addition cystids and large cephal- 
opods, Gyroceras elrodi White, Orthoceras annulatum Sowerby. St. Paul, Greens- 
burg, Harris City, Osgood and on Big creek, Jefferson county. 
No.1. Calcareous shale, thickness 15 feet. Seen on Big creek, Jefferson c ounty, cen 
taining large specimens of Caryocrinus orndtus, Holycystites and Step h anocrinus 
It was also stated in the former paper that no Caryocrinus had been 
found in the state; several small species, which up to date are new, 
have been found at St. Paul, while bed No. 1 of above section contains 
Caryocrinus ornatus of enormous size, the hight of the calyx of one spec- 
imen seen being three inches. 
The following general observations may be made: 
In the northern part of the state only small species, such as Pisocrinus, 
have been found; at St. Paul the specimens are larger and a great num- 
ber of Swedish genera occur such as Callicrinus, Carpocrinus, etc., and 
small cystids, while at Greensburg and Harris City Stephanocrinus pre- 
dominates, and at Osgood the “pear shaped crinoid” reaches its greatest 
size. In the lowest bed, that on Big creek, Jefferson county, the cystids 
become enormous in size. 
Recently the writer has exchanged specimens with Prof. Gustaf Lind- . 
strom, of Sweden, and finds that the corals of Sweden are nearer those of 
this lower bed than any other. CHARLES 8. BEACHLER. 
Crawfordsvilie, Ind., May 12, 1892. 
PRIZES AWARDED BY THE Boston Society oF Naturau History.— 
A grand honorary prize placed at the disposal of the Boston Society of 
Natural History by the late Dr. William J. Walker “for such investiga- 
tion or discovery as may seem to deserve it, provided such investigation 
or discovery shall have been made known or published in the United 
States at least one year previous to the time of award” has been unani- 
mously awarded to Prof.James D. Dana. In recognition of the value of 
the scientific work of Professor Dana and in testimony of the society’s 
high appreciation of his services to science the maximum sum of one 
thousand dollars has been awarded. : 
For the annual Walker prizes a first prize of one hundred dollars has 
been awarded to Baron Gerard de Geer, of Stockholm, for an essay enti- 
tled “On Pleistocene Changes of Levelin Eastern North America,” and 
a second prize of fifty dollars to Prof. William M. Davis of Canibridge for 
an essay on “The Subglacial Origin of Certain Eskers.” 
May 2, 1892. Sam’L HENSHAW. 
*The “pear shaped crinoid”’ has been figured by Mr. S. A. Miller in Advance sheets of 
17th Indiana report as Bophocrinus howardi. 
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