48 Kansas Academy of Science. 



of the peninsula, which Mr. Arnold touched only slightly, if 

 at all. 



"If Reagan had visited the locality from which the fossils he de- 

 scribes 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. The 

 (Reagan's) description of the Quillayute formation is based on glacial 

 filling of the valley of the Quillayute river. (But) it is typical Empire 

 sandstone." (Written in reverse order to bring out Mr. Arnold's state- 

 ments.) 



I am sorry Mr. Arnold never read my article. He can read 

 the English language, I am sure ; and if he ever read my 

 article he certainly would not have made the statement above 

 quoted. My article is in your libraries, and I begyou to please 

 get down the volume cited and see for yourselves that the 

 statements above are far from justice to me. 



I visited the region and collected the fossils described my- 

 self, with the exception of the fossil Ranella marshalli, which 

 was given me by Mr. Marshall, as is stated on page 224 of the 

 article. I made a good many trips to the place, both with 

 white men and with Indians. We went both by canoe up the 

 river and also on foot in from Quillayute prairie. James 

 Clark, now county commissioner of Clallam county, Washing- 

 ton, accompanied me on the first trip. George Woodruff, now 

 of Ilwaco, Washington, was with me on another trip. On 

 practically all the trips I crossed the Devil Club swamp from 

 the bend in the river to the bluffs adjacent and north of where 

 Maxfield creek entered the Quillayute river when that river 

 ran against the western bluffs, instead of about a half a mile 

 eastward as it does now (at the old mouth of Maxfield creek; 

 not a later mouth of Maxfield creek). There is not a state- 

 'ment anijivhere in mij article that a fossil was ohtaiyied in the 

 Devil Club swamp or any material of which the Devil Club 

 stvamp is composed. 



I will now quote from page 203 of my article : 



"Quillayute Formation [This is under the general heading 'Pliocene,' 

 on page 202]. This formation occupies the valley of the Quillayute 

 river and the country drained by its eastern tributaries at least to their 

 respective middle courses, thence westward to Wasatch strait, the forma- 

 tion extending outward to the coast now and then. The boundaries of 

 the formation were not ascertained. In the interior region, where ex- 

 posed along the Bogachiel river, it is composed of sandstone and bluish- 

 gray shale; the coast exposures are all conglomerates or a coarse 

 gravelly rock resting unconformably upon the older rocks exposed there. 



