EDI PORIvs 
For more than thirty years Mr. W. F. E. Gurley, of Danville, 
Illinois, formerly the official geologist of this state, has been one 
of the most systematic collectors of Paleozoic fossils in the Mis- 
sissippi valley. Not only has he gathered together what is prob- 
ably the best existing collection of Paleozoic fossils of the 
interior states, but he has secured a large amount of valuable 
material from other portions of this country and from Europe. 
The collection has furnished much material for study to such 
paleontologists as ‘EA. White, #. 1) Cope, Seni Scudders| as: 
Newberry, Leo Lesquereaux, and Charles Wachsmuth, and many 
types of the species described by these men are included in it. 
More recently Mr. Gurley himself, associated with the late S. A. 
Miller, of Cincinnati, has described many new species from the 
collection. Aside from these types Mr. Gurley has been fortu- 
nate in securing many other types of species described by Owen 
and Shumard, Hall, Wetherby, and Miller. 
In addition to the types in the collection, which are about 
600 in number, some of its most noticeable features are the fol- 
lowing: an exceptional series of Devonian fossils from the 
falls of the Ohio, including crinoids, corals, brachiopods, and 
trilobites; a fine series of Kinderhook crinoids from Le Grand, 
Iowa; an admirable series of Coal Measure crinoids from Kan- 
sas City, Missouri; a large collection of fish remains from the 
limestones of the Mississippi valley ; an almost exclusive collec- 
tion of the vertebrate remains from the Permian bone bed near 
Danville, Illinois, including all the types of the species from this 
locality described by Professor E. D. Cope; and a fine series of 
blastoids and cystoids. Among the foreign material a choice 
series of Solenhofen slate fossils and an excellent series of Car- 
boniferous crinoids from Moscow, are worthy of special mention. 
These features serve to show something of the contents of the 
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