Prof. W. H. Ban-is. — Preston. 361 
was made a trustee of this institution at its first meeting, and 
was active in its support through hfe. Elected president in 
1876, in 1890 he took up the work of caring for its museum 
and correspondence laid down by his friend, curator Pratt, 
and despite an affection of the eyes, at times excruciatingly 
painful, discharged faithfully the onerous duties of the 
place to within a few days of his death. 
The loving regard in wliich he was held by his asso- 
ciates in the academy was thus expressed in resolutions of 
respect to his memory : "Of a gentle and scholarly disposi- 
tion, holding close and loving communion with nature's vis- 
ible forms and their inforniing Spirit, he had neither tune 
nor inclination for business strife with his fellow men. The 
soul of kindliness in every relation of life, he made each one 
who came to know him a friend." To the writer, who knew 
him well, he embodied the highest ideal of kindly, courteous 
and Christian manliood. In him were united a soul pure as 
a child's, the modesty of great wisdom, and the simply dignity 
of a gentleman of the old school. 
Davenport, lozi'a, October 21, 1901. 
A SECTION OF THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN AT 
VEVAY, INDIANA. 
EllGAK K. Cl'MINGS. 
PLATES XXXIV AND XXXV. 
The detailed section described in the ])resent ])aper is pub- 
lished, without the faunal lists, in a paper by the writer, in the 
IVoceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1900. It 
is proposed here to supplement the stratigraphic details already 
given, by an analysis of the faunas.* 
The section begins at the level of the Ohio river at Vevay, 
Indiana, and includes beds ordinarily correlated with the Utica 
and Lorraine of the eastern United States. The lowest expos- 
ures octur at the foot of a glen or run opening out on the 
flood plain of the Ohio river, upon which the city of Vevay is 
built, at the head oi "Main cross" street, just east of the or- 
phan asylum. The section extends up the glen to near the toj) 
*The identifications of the Bryozoa listed in this paper are invariably based' 
upon thin section.s. 
