Mathematical and Geological Papers. 47 



THE MARINE TERTIARY STRATIGRAPHY OF THE 

 NORTH PACIFIC COAST OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Keview of an article by Ralph Arnold and Herold Hannibal. 



Hy Al.l'.KHT 15. UlCAiiAX. 



I HAVE not the time to review the whole of the above-cited 

 article of Ralph Arnold and Herold Hannibal, but will touch 

 only the part that relates to my article, "Some Notes on the 

 Olympic Peninsula, Washington." (Transactions of the Kan- 

 sas Academy of Science, vol. XXII, 1908, pp. 131 to 238.) 



In the article of the two gentlemen cited, page 604 (Reprint 

 from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 

 LII, No. 212, November-December, 1913) is this paragraph : 



"A. B. Reagan, 1908, 'Some Notes on the Olympic Peninsula.' Most 

 of the geological data in this paper are adopted from one by the senior 

 writer (Arnold) mentioned. . . . The description of the Quillayute 

 formation is based on the glacial filling of the valley of the Quillayute 

 river. If Reagan had visited the locality from which the fossils he 

 describes from the Quillayute formation were brought by the Indians, 

 he would have found it to be about two miles from Devil Club swamp, 

 where he says they occur, and the formation lithologically very different 

 from what he describes. It is typical Empire formation." 



I will take up Mr. Arnold's misstatements as they come: 



"Most of the geological data in this (Reagan's) paper are adopted 

 from one by the senior writer (Arnold)." 



I had done my geological research work and was at Leland 

 Stanford, Jr., University classifying the fossils described in 

 my article when Prof. J. P. Smith (I believe it was) gave me 

 Mr. Arnold's article on the Olympic Region (Geological Re- 

 connaissance of the Coast of the Olympic Peninsula, Washing- 

 ton ; Bui. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 17, pp. 451-468, vols. 55, 56.) 

 In the final writing up of the article I did quote from this 

 article, and wherever I did I gave Mr. Arnold due credit for 

 the same, as the article shows ; but that most of the data was 

 adopted from Mr, Arnold is preposterous. Mr. Arnold's whole 

 article covers pages 451 to 468, or a total of 18 pages, and my 

 article cited covered from pages 131 to 238, or a total of 108 

 pages, besides plates. Had I copied Mr. Arnold's article in 

 toto it would have been only a small fraction of my article. 

 Furthermore, I described the Quillayute and interior region 



