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made the section from Terrell by way of Minneola, Tyler, Jackson- 

 ville, Trinity, Corrigan, and Colmesniel to the Gulf at Sabine Pass. 

 Mr. Walker's section was west of the Colorado River from Cameron 

 to Galveston. 



Mr. Taff began at Corpus Christi and made his section by way of 

 Laredo, Cotulla, and Carrizo Springs to Uvalde. This done, Mr. 

 Kenned}' made a detailed study of Houston County; Mr. Walker 

 worked in Washington County; and Mr. Taff traced some of the 

 Cretaceous partings from Uvalde to Austin, after which he took up 

 the study of the Cretaceous deposits and made a careful section 

 across Lampasas and Williamson counties. Cummins followed and 

 mapped the Cretaceous escarpment west from San Angelo to the 

 Staked Plains; followed the foot of the plains northward to the 

 Fort Worth and Denver Railroad; crossed over into New Mexico 

 and followed the valley of the Pecos River to Pecos City, practically 

 circling the Llano Estacado. 



Comstock similarly crossed the Cretaceous southwestwardly from 

 San Angelo, making a close instrumental section through Sleicher, 

 Sutton, Val Verde, Kinney, and Maverick counties to the Rio 

 Grande; thence northward through Uvalde, Edwards, Bandera, 

 Kerr, and Gillespie, connecting with his work of the previous year. 



Von Streeruwitz returned to trans-Pecos, Texas, and as the United 

 States Geological Survey had undertaken the further topographic 

 work of that region, he took up work farther east in the Diabolo and 

 Carrizo Mountains. Mr. Singley was detailed to watch the progress 

 of the deep well at Galveston. Mr. Dumble, with the assistance of 

 Mr. J. Owen, made a section of the Cretaceous along the Rio Granda 

 between Eagle Pass and Del Rio, and then took up the lignite in- 

 vestigation, visiting the various lignite fields of Germany and Aus- 

 tria, as well as numerous Texas localities. 



Mr. Herndon was relieved from duty May 6 and Mr. Magnenat 

 appointed to succeed him, with the assistance of G. H. Wooten. 

 Comstock resigned to accept the directorship of the Arizona School 

 of Mines, and did not submit report of his work. 



Such paleontologic work as was done was by specialists. Professor 

 Cummins's nautiloid forms were again sent to Prof. A. Hyatt, while 

 the fossil plants collected from the Carboniferous and Permian were 

 sent to I. C. Wliite and the vertebrate fossils to E. D. Cope. The 

 Cretaceous echinodei-ms wei'e sent to W. B. Clark of Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



The collections in the museum were greatly enlarged and better 

 classified, and 20 collections of minerals distributed to high schools. 



The detailed results of the work were contained in the reports of 



