CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Page 



Interest Attaching to Pleistocene 5 



Field Work 6 



Scope of Paper 8 



Acknowledgments 10 



CHAPTER I. 



Historical Review. 



General Statements Concerning Early Workers 10 



Work of Vanuxem, Catesby, and Bartram 11 



Work of Conrad and Lyell ■ . n 



Ruffin, Various Divisions of the Coastal Plain 12 



Tuomey, Divisions into Cretaceous, Eocene, Pliocene and 



Post-Pliocene 13 



F. S. Holmes, Work on the Pleistocene 17 



The Phosphate Problem and Shepherd, Holmes and Shaler . 19 



Recent Workers and their Work 19 



CHAPTER II. 



Geographical Distribution of the Pleistocene 

 of the Coastal Plain. 



General Remarks 20 



Maine 22 



New Hampshire and Massachusetts 22 



Rhode Island and Connecticut 23 



New York 23 



New Jersey 24 



Pennsylvania and Delaware 25 



Maryland 25 



Virginia 27 



North and South Carolina 28 



Georgia and Florida 29 



