"[illegible] knives. In chewing out each he uses strong acid and as soon as the parts are soft, he covers the milk paraffin. When the specimen is chewed out, it is laid into boiling water to remove the paraffin. The can be used over again. Mr. Green tells me that all or nearly all of Mr. Davis' species (Ky Forest Corals) were published latter in the Indiana Reports for 1882 and 1884, if this is true all of Mr. Davis' are synonyms of shells since the publica[tion] of the latter is irregular. Mr. Davis tells me that about 340 species of corals are found around Louisville. Pelecypoda and gastropods are not abundant in the Hamilton at