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artesian well area clays 650 below surface, also the Rad- 

 iolarian and Diatomaceous clays of the Buhrstone Eacene 

 of Alabama and Mississippi, the Holothurian fossil re- 

 mains of the Clarke Co., (Miss.) marls. 



All of these various deposits were but of inconsequen- 

 tial interest to his purposes, as none furnished data of 

 direct use to him. But finally a ray of hope dawned 

 giving new zeal to his hope of finding the missing link 

 in his data requirements, w'nen the 15 feet or more stra- 

 tum of a marine fossil diatomaceous clay was announced 

 by me as found in the vicinity of Suggsville, Clarke Co., 

 Ala. Mr. L. Woolman since then has had the satisfaction 

 of getting the material wherewith to study the corres- 

 pondence of the Alabama deposit in its specific forms, 

 with the material and specific forms characterizing the 

 composition of the Miocene clays of the Atlantic Coast. 



The Geological Map of the State of Alabama locates 

 Suggsville in the area of the Eocene designated as E. 1., 

 equivalent to the St, Stephens; (Vicksburg; White 

 Limestone, and Jackson ) or uppermost member of the 

 Eocene, while the true Miocene should rest upon this 

 group of strata. A comparative study of the Pacific 

 Coast Diatomaceous species and tiiat of the Atlantic 

 Coast species of the Miocene age by me suggests that the 

 Suggsville deposit is more nearly allied to those of the 

 Pacific deposits than to those of the Atlantic Coast. 



Foraminifera of the Marine Clays of Maine, — B}' Frank 

 S. Morton, Portland, Maine. 8 vo., 18pp., 1 plate. 



This is a paperextracted f rom the proceeding-s of the Port- 

 land Society of Natural History for 1897. After a brief 

 description of the localities from which the material 

 was derived, the writer g-ives the systematic classifica- 

 tion of the forms, and bibliog-raphical notes. Students of 

 the Rhizopoda can perhaps obtain a copy by writing- to the 

 author at Portland. 



