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artesian well area clays 050 below surface, also the Rad- 

 iolarian and J)iat(»inaceou8 clays of the Buhrstone Eocene 

 of Alahauia and Mississippi, the Holothurian fossil re- 

 mains ol" the Clarke Co., (Miss.) marls. 



All of t hcse various de])osits were hut of inconsequen- 

 tial interest to his purposes, as none furnished data of 

 direct use to him. V>\\1 finally a ray of ho})e dawned 

 giving new zeal to his hope of finding the missing' link 

 in iiis data recjuiriMiients, wlien the 15 feet or more stra- 

 tum of a marine fossil diatomaceous clay was announced 

 by me as found in the vicinity of kr>uggsville, Chirke Co., 

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

 of getting the material wherewith to study the corres- 

 pondence of the Alabama dejjosit in its specific forms, 

 with the material and specific forms characterizing the 

 composition of the Miocene ciays of the Ath-iutic Coast. 



The (ieological 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 ])iaton)aceous s})ecies and that 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. I>v Frank 

 S. Morton, Portland, Maine. •'-^ vo., ISpp., 1 j)late. 



This is a paper extracted from the proceedinu^sof the Port- 

 land Society of Natural History for 1.SM7. After a brief 

 descri])lion of the localities from which the material 

 was derived, the writer y-ives the systematic classilica- 

 tion of the forms, and bil)lio«ifra])hical notes. Students of 

 the Khi/.ojtoda can i>erha]>s ol)tain a co]>y by writing- to the 

 author at Portland. 



