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the lake area of this region was two or three times its present extent; and 

 further, that if the agencies now at work continue to accumulate material 

 on their shores and beds, not many centuries will elapse before these now 

 numerous and interesting gems of the landscape will l>e known only to the 

 students of ancient geography." 



A list of the MoUusca and turtles taken in the lakes is given at the end of 

 Levette's paper. The fishes and Crustacea were turned over to the Peabody 

 ISfuseum, where, says Levette, they were to "be examined by Prof. Putnam, 

 free of cost to the Geological Survey, and full suites of all the species collected, 

 properly labeled, and returned to the State Museum at Indianapolis, and all 

 new species figured and described for publication in this or a subsequent 

 report," but we can find no record of them in this or following reports. 



The final paper in the volume is a "Catalogue of the Flora of the Wabash 

 Valley below the mouth of White River and Observations thei-eon," by Dr. 

 J. Schiieek, of Mt. Carrael, Illinois. Tn the introduction Dr. Sehneck gives 

 nuich information of value regarding the physical characteristics of the 

 region, the time of leafing and flowering of many species, a talile of measure- 

 ments of the larger trees, a mention of the ])lants which had recently become 

 extinct, etc. In the list proper he mentions with notes .S(j7 species represent- 

 ing 444 genera as occuring in the area covered. 



Th(' writer had the pleasure on several occasions of spending a day or two 

 at a time in company with Dr. Schn'^ck in a study of the (Cypress swamp of 

 Knox County and in the region south of the Patoka River in Gibson County. 

 He was a most agreeable companion, a botanist of learning, especially regard- 

 ing the oaks and other trees of that portion of the State. Of the oaks he 

 furnisiied foliage and fruit to many of the eastern botanists and Schneck's 

 red oak, Qucrcuis schneckii Brit ton, which occurs from Ohio and southern 

 Indiana west and south to Iowa, Missouri, Florida and Texas, was named in 

 his honor. 



?]i(iHTH, Ninth .v\d Tenth Reports of Cox. 



The results of the work done by the Indiana Survey during the years 

 1876-'77 and '78 were not printed until 1S79, when they appeared in a single 

 volume of 541 pages as the "Eighth, >sinth and Tenth Reports of Cox." 

 The first 170 pages of the volume are devoted to a general discussion of the 

 Geology and Archaeology of the State. This Cox starts out by controverting 

 to some extent the statement of the wise man with which I begun this paper, 

 viz., that the "Geology of the surface of Indiana is simple." He says that 

 "The geological history of Indiana appears tame and devoid of the marvelous 

 interest which attaches to those regions of country where the forces generated 

 in the earth's laboratory have made themselves conspicuous by the meta- 

 morphism of the rocks, and the tilting, folding and fracturing of its crust. 

 Here the elements concerned in the building up of strata leave no trace of 

 violent cataclysms, and the rocks presented to view lie regularly bedded at 



