THE LOESS OF NACHEZ, MISS. 299 



The writer's own contributions to the literature of the loess 

 in recent years have been on the seolian side. One of these, 

 that on the Loess of Natchez, Miss., published in the Ameri- 

 can Geologist,* should have been credited at the time of pub- 

 lication to this Bulletin as an advanced publication. It is 

 reprinted here because originally prepared for this Bulletin, 

 and because it bears more or less directly on the reply to Pro- 

 fessor Wright, and advantage is taken of this opportunity to 

 add a few notes to the original paper. The paper on the Loess 

 and the Lansing Man also appeared in the American Geo- 

 logist, and is here reproduced to make the subsequent notes 

 and articles intelligible. 



THE LOESS OF NATCHEZ, MISS. 



PLATES I-VII. 



The loess of Natchez, Miss., and of the lower Mississippi 

 valley, besides presenting a specially interesting field to the 

 student, is classic ground, for here loess was first recognized 

 in America by Sir Charles Lyell, who visited the region in 

 1846. 



It has received much attention since that time, and has been 

 reported upon successively by Wailes*, Hilgardf, Chamberlin 

 and Salisbury!, McGee§, and Mabry||, while its fossils have 

 received some attention from Binney.Tf 



**Vol. XXX, pp. 279-209, Nov., 1902. 



* Wailes, B. h. C. Report on the Agri. and Geology of Mississippi, 

 1854. 



tHilgard, E. W. — Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi, 1860. 



X Chamberlin, T. C. , and Salisbury, R. D. — Sixth An. Rep. U. S. 

 Geol. Survey, 1885. 



§McGee, W. J. — Twelfth An. Rep. U. S. Geol. Survey, 1891. 



llMabry, T. O. — Journal of Geology, vol. VI., 1898. 



iBinney, W. G. — A Manual of American Laud Shells. Appendix 

 IX, 1885, etc. 



