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Uriah Pierson James . 
visited Cincinnati and saw Mr. James’s collection, pronounc¬ 
ing it among the finest he had ever seen. 
The first catalogue of fossils of the vicinity of Cincinnati 
was compiled and published by Mr. James in 1871. In this 
were embodied the results of his studies for thirty years, and 
in it a number of names were proposed for new species, many 
of which were subsequently adopted by Meek, Hall and Whit¬ 
field. A supplement to this was published in 1873, and a 
second edition with many additions and corrections in 1875. 
In this there were also included descriptions of a number of 
new species from the vicinity of Cincinnati. A few years 
later, 1879, a supplement was published, which contained the 
names of new species described by various authors up to that 
time. He contributed various articles to the Cincinnati Quar¬ 
terly Journal of Science, and in 1878 issued the first number of a 
small periodical which he called “ The Paleontologist.” This 
contained descriptions of many new species from the Cincinnati 
and Clinton groups, and was continued for seven numbers, the 
last one containing two etched plates. This periodical was 
distributed to his correspondents and to many libraries and 
societies, and was also sold. Later on he contributed various 
papers to the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural 
History, some of which were illustrated. A full list of his 
writings is appended to this notice. 
He was the first collector and student of the fossil corals 
found so abundantly in the rocks of the Cincinnati group; 
and it was he who first called the attention of Prof. Nichol¬ 
son to them. All the workers among the fossils in the vicin¬ 
ity had been afraid to attempt the study of these organisms, 
and it was only after he had begun his work that others took 
it up. He furnished many specimens to the paleontologists 
of the geological survey of Ohio for description and illustra¬ 
tion, and his cabinet contains many of these type specimens. 
It also contains many new or peculia^ forms, which we hope 
may yet be brought before the public. His labors in this field 
are commemorated by having many species called by his 
name. It was in the reports of this survey that many names 
proposed by him in his catalogue of 1871 were adopted and 
rightly credited to him. 
One of the results of his intimate knowledge of the*corals of 
Cincinnati was the publication of a monograph of the Monti- 
