820 F. W. CRAGIN 
the ornamentation of the Malone ammonite fragment apparently 
agreeing with that of the Alamitos form, Hfoplites bifurcatus. 
In conclusion, I regret to have to record the recent decease 
of Mr. Robert W. Goodell, which occurred at his home in 
Houghton, Michigan, on the 23d of September last, and in his 
28th year. I regard his early calling away, not only as a personal 
bereavement, but as a distinct loss to science as well; for, though 
an invalid, and unable to bear the confinement involved in the 
elaboration of his out of door observations, he was a young man 
of unusual intellectual ability and promise and an enthusiastic 
and careful observer. He had done considerable field work on 
the Laramie, Denver, and Fort Union formations in the area 
between Denver and Colorado Springs, and on several other mat- 
ters of Colorado, Texas and Michigan geology; and, as appears 
in the present article, it is to his zealas a scientific explorer that 
we owe the trip to Malone which, aided by his father’s more 
robust physical strength, resulted in the means for the first satis- 
factory diagnosis of the age of the Malone hills fauna; and 
in an important advance in our knowledge of the distribution 
of North American Jurassic rocks. 
F. W. Crain. 
COLORADO SPRINGS, COL. 
