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 & New' j 
Lisbon Railroad, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., Cleveland, 1857,—Report onj 
State-house Well, by J. S. Newberry,—Catalogue of Flowering Plants and 
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. *1 
Imp. zool. d’Acclimatation, Paris, No. 9,1861, from the Society; Canadian 
Nat. & Geologist, and Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc., Montreal, Yol. 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 .T. Barrande, Paris,—Depot orga- 
nique dans les loges aerienneaffttes Orthoceres, par J. Barrande,—Obs. sur 
quelques genres de CeplgWjodes Siluriens, par J. Barrande,—Extension * 
de la Fa'une PrimordialelpBohemie, par J. Barrande,—Colonies dans le 
basin Silurien de la Boheqgflfc tpar J. Barrande,—Troncation normale ou 
periodique de la coquille d j certains Cephalapodes paleozoiques, par J. 
Barrande,—Notes sur qdtLques nouveaux Fossiles dans le basin Silurien j. 
du centre de la Bohemie,*f855, 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,—Lettres sur les Roches de Jura, par Jules Marcou, Liv. 2, 
Paris, I860,—Parallele 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 JExogyra 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 . Marshii, 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, of Prague, Bohemia, was elected 
a Corresponding Member. 
Missouri Botanical Garden 
George Engeusann Papers 
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