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J ^ TERTIARY FAUNA OF FLORIDA 



Properly to study the Florida Tertiary implies its comparison and correla- 

 tion with that of adjacent regions. The knowledge that Professor Harris was 

 working up the Eocene, group by group, rendered it unnecessary to trespass 

 on that field, especially as typical Eocene is not known to occur in Florida. 

 But in all matters of comparison I have had his cordial cooperation. In the 

 opposite direction Professor W. B. Clark, State Geologist of Maryland, was 

 energetically developing the Tertiary of that State with the aid of an enthu- 

 siastic group of students. Here also most kindly cooperation was offered and 

 accepted. The Tertiary of New Jersey had already been monographed by 

 Professor R. P. Whitfield, who had had our own material for study, so that 

 in making comparisons I had the benefit of many of his types. The United 

 States National Museum was, fortunately, able to purchase the collection of 

 Antillean fossils made by Mr. J. L. Guppy, one of the most energetic workers 

 in the paleontology of the West Indies, and the types of Gabb were available 

 at the hospitable Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. 



Special collections were made in the course of the work at many classical 

 localities for the purposes of elucidation. Mr. Frank Burns spent some weeks 

 collecting from the later Tertiaries of southeastern New Jersey, especially at 

 Shiloh and Jericho, and the writer subsequently made a statigraphical study 

 of the beds at these localities, a summary of which will be found in Bulletin 

 84, pp. 40-42. Mr. Harris, then acting as my assistant, made a reconnoissance, 

 aided by Mr. Burns, of the Miocene of Maryland, especially the northeastern 

 or older portion. Subsequently Burns made very full collections at Plum 

 Point, Jones Wharf, and Calvert Cliffs, Maryland. Another campaign was 

 carried on on the York and James Rivers, Virginia, classical Miocene ground, 

 followed by collecting trips during which Burns explored the Miocene of 

 Petersburg and Suffolk, Virginia, localities from which Lea, Conrad, and 

 Wagner obtained many of the species they described. 



The well-known locality at the Natural Well, Duplin County, North Caro- 

 lina, was explored by Burns, who obtained a fine series of fossils there, with 

 minor collections from the lower part of the Neuse River and at Wilmington, 

 North Carolina. Here Dr. T. W. Stanton and Mr. Vaughan, of the United 

 States Geological Survey, obtained at times additional valuable material. 



The reconnoissance by Mr. C. W. Johnson of the Waccamaw district and 

 the Croatan region of the Carolinas has already been fully discussed in the 

 course of this Memoir* with its important consequences in clearing up con- 



* Part II., pp. 201-217, 1892. 



