WRITINGS OF F. B. MEEK AND JAMES HALL. 13 



Meek, F. B. Mr. Meek's report oii Moniteau Couuty. <^The first aud second annual 

 reports of the geological survey of Missouri, by G. C. Swallow, State geologist. 

 Part IT. pp. 96-117. Jefferson City, 1855. 



CONTEXTS OF THF. UEl'OUT. 



Page. 



Quaternary deposits 96 



Carlionifeious system. — Enciinital limestone 98 



Chemung group 101 



Devoniau system. — Upper Heklerber;;. — Onondaga limestone 103 



Lower Silurian strata: 



Saccha^oidal sandstone .. . 105 



Second raaene.sian limestone 106 



Economical genloirj-: 



Soil 109 



Building stones 110 



Fire-stones, limestones foi lime 110 



Sand for making mortar, hydraulic limestone, millstones, materials for the con- 

 struction of roads, clays for the manufacture of bricks Ill 



Coal 112 



Iron ore 115 



Lead '. 115 



High-Point Mine 117 



Mr. Meek also drew the figures illustrating the paleontological' report in this volume. A 

 geological map of the county is also given. 



Hall, James, aud Meek, F. B Descriptions of new species of fossils from tlte Creta- 

 ceous formations of Nebraska; with observations upon Baculites ovatus and B. 

 compressus, and the progressive development of the septa in Baculites, Annuo- 

 nites, and Scaphites. <^Mem. Am. Acad. Arts aud Sci., vol. v, new ser., jtp. 379- 

 411, 8 plates. 1856. Cambridge, 1856. 



The fossils described in this paper were collected in 1853 by F. B. Meek andF. V. Hayden. 



The paper was communicated June 27, 1854, but was not published till 1856. 



Page. 



CaUianassa danai, u s., H. & M., 1856, pi. i, fig. \a,b 379-380 



Lingula subgpatulafa, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. i, figs. 2 a,b •- - 380 



Caprinella coraloidea, n. s., II. & M., 18.56, pi. ii. figs. 3 a-/ 380-381 



Pecten rlgida, ii. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. ii, figs. 4a-c 381 



Avicula haydeni, n. s., II. & M., 185C, pi. i, figs. 5 a, ft 382 



Ludna subiindata, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. i, figs. 6 a, 6 382 



Cythereaorbieulata,u.s,'S.& M,, 18.56, pi. i, fig. 7 382-383 



Cytherea tenuis, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. i, figs. 8 a-c 383 



Crassatella evansii, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. i, figs. 9 a-e 383-384 



Pectunculus sioitxensU" n. s., II. & M., 1856, pi. i, fig. 12 384 



Nucula subnamita, u. s., H. & M., 18.56, pi. i, figs. 10 a-c 384-385 



Nucula ventricosa, ii. s., H. & M., 18.56, pi. i, fig. U a, & 385 



Capulux occidentalix, n. s., H. &. M., 1 8.56, pi. i, fig. 13 a-d 385-386 



Inoceramvn Kublcems,n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. ii, fig. 1 a, 6 386 



laoceramxis concexiis, n. s., H. <fc M., 1850, pi. ii, fig. 2 a, 6 386-387 



Inoceramus tenuilineatud, n. s, H. & M., 1856, pi. ii, fig. 3 a, & 387 



Inoceramus conradi, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. ii, fig. 5a,b 387-388 



Inoceramus fragiUs, n. s., H. & M., 1S5G, pi. ii, figs. 6 a, 6 388 



Natiea obliijuata, h. a., H. & M., 18.56, pi. iii, figs. 1 a, 6 389 



Natica concinna, n. s., H. & M., 1856, ]il. iii, fig.s. 2 a-d 389 



Natiea paludincefonnis, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. iii, fig. 3 a-c 389-390 



Acteon concinniis, a. s., H. &M., 1856, jd. iii, figs. 4 a-d 390 



Buccinum ? vinculum; n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. iii, figs. 5 a-b 390-391 



Fusus shumardii, n. s., H. & M., 1856, pi. iii, figs. 6a-c 391 



Fugus con)itrictas,n.6.,I{. & M., 1856, pi. iii, figs. 7 a-d 391-392 



Fusus ? tenuilineata, n. s., H. «Sz, M. 1856, pi. iii, figs. 8 a-c and 9 a-c 392 



BosteUaria fusiformis, n. s , H. & M., 1856, pi. iii, fig. 10 a, b 393 



Dentalium gracilis, n. s., H. it M., 1856, pi. iii, fig. 11 a-c 393 



