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dence. Harper's Geology of Mississippi in the notes 

 therein, refers to the labors of D'Orbigny and Dr. 

 Ehrenberg in relation to some of the characters of the 

 cretaceous formations that he was occupied with, while it 

 is also known that Charles Lyell, afterwards known as 

 Sir Charles, Alexander Winchell and Toumey had per- 

 sonally visited this territory in antebellum days, while 

 the distinctively micro-geological character of what is 

 known about the Tertiary sedimentary deposits was in- 

 augurated by myself with the encouragement and 

 approval of the present State Geologist of Alabama, Dr. 

 Eugene A. Smith, and in the Alabama Gulf coastal plain 

 Geological Report for the year 181>4 appears for the 

 first time a discussion of the microscopical characters of 

 the formations in Southern Alabama, which also covers 

 the distribution of the chalk in the central portion of the 

 state. The relatively limited record therein made lays 

 a foundation stratum upon which others can build an 

 extension, when the science of the microscope shall be 

 applied to geological problems as modern civilization 

 may advance and scientific culture shall expand beyond 

 its present bounds. After having on these two trips 

 found such treasures of microzoan fossils in such variety, 

 I conceived the idea of securing for free distribution at 

 tie proposed exposition, previously referred to, to all 

 microscopists, students of geology or mineral collectors; 

 as well as cement or ceramic manufacturers, liberal 

 specimens of these various mineral deposits, so as to 

 enable them to become familiar with these southern de- 

 posits of both scientific and economic interest, but un- 

 fortunately the failure to hold the exposition frustrated 

 the intention as well as the idea. 



Typhoid Fever caused thirty-six per cent of the deaths 

 among- the British troops in India during- the year 1894. 



