TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
October 21, 1861. 
The President, Dr. Engelmann, in the chair. 
Seven members present. 
A letter was read from Dr. Charles T. Jackson, of Boston, 
acknowledging his election as a Corresponding Member. 
The following donations to the library were received : 
.Rep. on the Economical Geology of the Route of the Ashtabula & 
Lisbon Railroad, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., Cleveland, 1857,—Rep 5 *} 0 - - 
State-house Well, by J. S. Newberry,—Catalogue of Flowering Plan ! lnd 
Ferns of Ohio, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., 1860, from the Author ; Proc. 
Boston Society Natural History, Sept. 1861, from the Society; Journal of 
the Franklin Institute, October, 1861, from the Institute; Bull, de la Soc. 
Imp. zoo-1. d’Acclimatation, Paris, No. 9,1861, from the Society; Canadian 
Nat. & Geologist, and Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc., Montreal, Vol. VI., No. 5, 
Oct. 1861, from the Society; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philad., Aug. 1861, 
from the Academy ; Faune Primordiale dans la Chaine Cantabrique, par 
Casiano de Prado, Ed. de Verneuil, et J. Barrande, Paris,—Depot orga- 
nique dans les loges aeriennes des Orthoceres, par J. Barrande,—Obs. sur 
quelques genres de Cephalapodes Siluriens, par J. Barrande,—Extension 
de la Faune Primordiale de Bohemie, par J. Barrande,—Colonies dans le 
basin Silurien de la Bohemie, par J. Barrande,;—Troncation nctpmale ou 
periodique de la coquille daqjs certains Cephalapodes paleozoiques, par J. 
Barrande,—Notes sur quelques nouveaux Fossiles dans le basin Silurien 
du centre de la Bohe'mie, 1855, par J. Barrande,—Le Systeme Taconique 
en Amerique, par J. Barrande, 1861,—Graptolites de Bohemie, par J. 
Barrande, 1850,—Analyse du travail de M. Ed. Suess sur les Brachio- 
podes de la Collection de Vienne, par M. Deshayes, —Notice biogra- 
phique sur Mercier de Boissy, par M. D’Archiac, 1856,—Notice sur la 
vie et les travaux de Jules Haime, par M. D’Archiac, 1856,—Notes on the 
Cretaceous and Carboniferous Rocks of Texas, by Jules Marcou, Bos¬ 
ton, 1861,—Leltres sur les Roches de Jura, par Jules Marcou, Liv. 2, 
Paris, I860,—ParalRle entre les Depots Siluriens^de Bohemie et de Scan- 
dinaVie, par J. Barrande, Prague, 1856, from Prof. Jules Marcou; Pri¬ 
mordial Zone of Texas, with Descriptions of New Fossils, by B. F. Shu- 
mard, 1861, from the Author. 
Dr. Shutnard presented Exogyra arietina from the Creta¬ 
ceous of Texas, and several Naiades from the Ohio River. 
Dr. Shumard called the attention of the Academy to a new 
Crustacean from the Cretaceous of Hempstead Co., Ark., pre¬ 
sented to the museum by Dr. Koch. Dr. Shumard proposed 
for it the name Mesostylus Americanus. 
Dr. Shumard exhibited a series of specimens of his Ostrea 
subovata ( 0. Marshif Marcou) from the Washita Limestone 
of. Fort; Washita and Austin, Texas, and among them the 
original Specimen described by him in Marcy’s Report. 
Prof. Joachim Barrande, ofPrague, Bohemia, was elected 
a Corresponding Member. 
Missouri Botanical Garden 
George Engelmann Papers: 
