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and there, is comparatively unfossiliferous. This may have 

 been clue to something' in the material of sedimentation or to 

 conditions prevailing which were inimical to animal life. 

 Prasopora hospitalis appears to be the commonest bryozoan 

 ancl is found on both the eastern and western sides of the anti- 

 cline. 



The only exposures examined on the east side of the anticline 

 were along the road leading into Owingsville from the south; 

 on the east side of the Licking river in Fleming county, near 

 Wyoming; one mile west of Sunset in Fleming county; and 

 the top of the Maysville section about five miles south of Mays- 

 ville. None of the exposures were very satisfactory and fossils 

 were not abundant, perhaps due, in part at least, to the char- 

 acter of the exposure. On the west side of the anticline, several 

 exposures were examined in Bullitt county in the vicinity of 

 Mt. Washington ; in Nelson county : in Washington county, five 

 miles west of Springfield ; and in Marion county in the vicinity 

 of Lebanon. 



VERSAILLES BEDS OR MIDDLE RICHMOND. In Wayne and Fay- 

 ette counties in Indiana and the adjoining counties of Ohio, 

 the middle Richmond is easily separable into two divisions, to 

 which the names Liberty and Whitewater have been given ; but 

 farther south in Indiana and thence into Kentucky as pointed 

 out by Foerste, 12 ancl with this the writer's observation agrees, 

 the lithologic characters and the faunas lose their distinctive- 

 ness. For thi<? reason Foerste has proposed to call the middle 

 Richmond the Versailles beds. This term will be used in this 

 report. The short time allotted to the fieldwork did not permit 

 the making of detailed sections nor the determining with any 

 degree of accuracy of the boundary lines between the subdivis- 

 ions of the Richmond in Kentucky. An old coral reef is found 

 In the middle Richmond around Bardstown, but its exact posi- 



12 Science (new ser.) 22, p. 150, 1905. 



