4fi0 "REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



existing 1 between conglomerates and sandstones as shore deposits and 

 the pelagic, calcareous, and argillaceous materials laid down at greater 

 depths. 



In 1854 Dr. William Kitchell was appointed superintendent of the 



geological survey of New Jersey. He continued in office until the close 



of 1856, during which time he made three annual reports, being 



assisted in the geological work by George H. Cook 



Kitchell's Geological . & ; ~. J T - ft 



survey of New and in the topographic by Egbert L. Viele. It was 



expected that Conrad would take charge of the pale- 

 ontological work, but failing health forcing him to resign, it was placed 

 in the hands of James Hall. Up to the time of the discontinuance of 

 the survey, however, Hall appears to have done little. The vertebrate 

 fossils collected were placed in the hands of Joseph Leidy. Mr. Henry 

 Wurtz served as chemist and mineralogist. 



Such part of the work as was done directly by Kitchell contained 

 little that was original or worthy of note, the stratigraphic work being 

 almost wholly done by Professor Cook. In the first report considera- 

 ble attention was paid to the greenstone marls, their distribution and 

 chemical composition, although other economic questions were taken 

 up, particularly those relating to the iron ores. The magnetic iron 

 ores were regarded as deposited contemporaneously with the sedi- 

 mentary rocks in which they were inclosed. 



In the third annual report, printed in 1856, Cook called attention to 

 the swamp lands and buried timber, and also the apparent gradual 

 encroachments of the sea in Cape May Count} 7 , and stated it as his 

 opinion that the sinking of the coast was going on at the rate of about 

 2 feet in one hundred years. The white crystalline limestone of the 

 highlands was here classed as Azoic. 



The results of these observations were afterwards printed with some 

 additional matter in separate form, entitled Geology of the County of 

 Cape May, State of New Jersey, bearing the date of 1857. This report 

 contained a colored geological map of the county and catalogues of 

 the zoological and botanical collections and a few fossil invertebrates. 



The survey was brought to a close on the 1st of May, 1856, owing 

 to the fact that the State did not feel able to provide an appropriation 

 for its continuance." 



The surveying party under Maj. W. H. Emory, for the purpose of 



fixing the Mexican boundary in accordance with the treaty of 1851, 



was accompanied by Dr. C. C. Parry in the capacity of geologist and 



botanist and Arthur Schott as an assistant. The obser- 



Emory's Mexican . , 



Boundary Survey, vations made by these two men were largely physio- 



1855=1856. i • 1 n • • i • i 



graphical and nuneralogical, with numerous notes of a 

 lithological nature. Collections of fossils were fortunately made, 



"According to Cook (Geology of New Jersey, 1868), Kitchell died suddenly in the 

 midst of his active duties, leaving his notes and papers unarranged for publication. 



