DR. EUGENE A. SMITH, 



State Geologist, University, Alabama. 



Dear Sir : The inclosed report consists of a list of the fossils 

 procured by your survey in Alabama, their distribution, with descrip- 

 tions of part of those believed to be new, also of others collected in Mis- 

 sissippi, and one new species from the Jackson Group of Louisiana. 

 There are added twenty previously described fossils from Alabama and 

 Mississippi, which are all likely to be found in your State. 



At my request Dr. Otto Meyer has added in a separate paper a large 

 number of new species obtained by him partly from the Claiborne Sand, 

 and in the Jackson and Vicksburg Groups in Mississippi. 



Very Respectfully, 



T. H. ALDRICH. 

 BLOCTON, BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA, June 13, 1886. 



