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PROF. COPE has several noteworthy papers in this part: one, on the Batrachia of the coal-measures of Ohio, describes the new genus, Ichthycanthus, and the new species of Leptophractus and Tuditanus. He also describes remains of a Dinosaurian from the trias of Utah; the humerus is one of the longest, and distally the most contracted known in the group. These remains are the first discovered fossils in the triassic beds of the Rocky Mountain regions. Another valuable paper is on the brain of Coryphodon. One of the longest contributions will be much esteemed by geologists, viz., Mr. Ashburner's measured section of the palæozoic rocks of Central Pennsylvania (Huntingdon County), a section extending vertically through 18,394 feet. A very valuable series of physiological experiments is recorded in a paper by F. L. Haynes, on the asserted antagonism between nicotin and strychnia. Philology is well represented by a paper on the Timucua language, by Mr. A. S. Gatschet; this language, formerly spoken in Florida, appears to be the oldest within the American Union of which writings of some extent are preserved.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.
Vol. xvi., No. 99. January to May, 1877.
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Nature 17, 199 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017199b0
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