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argument, since my paper on " Fundamental 

 Distinctions Special to the Process of Trans- 

 mission of Terrestrial Eadiation by the Atmo- 

 sphere, and the Value which is obtained for 

 the Coefficient of Transmission when these are 

 considered" will appear in full in the Amer- 

 ican Journal of Science. [The paper has since 

 been published in the issue for June, 1916, 

 Vol. XLL, pp. 513-521.] Frank W. Very 



Westwood Asteophtsical Observatory, 

 February 22, 1916 

 SOME NOTES ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA, 



WASHINGTON. A REPLY TO CRITICISMS 

 BY ARNOLD AND HANNIBAL 



In " The Marine Tertiary Stratigraphy of 

 the North Pacific Coast " by Ealph Arnold and 

 Harold Hannibal, page 604, 1 is this paragraph : 



A. B. Reagan, 1908, "Some Notes on the 

 Olympic Peninsula." Most of the geological data 

 in this paper are adopted from one by the senior 

 writer (Arnold) mentioned. . . . The description 

 of the Quillayute formation is based on the glacial 

 filling of the valley of the Quillayute River. If 

 Reagan had visited the locality from which the 

 fossils described from the Quillayute (formation) 

 were brought by Indians, he would have found it 

 to be about two miles from Devil's Club Swamp 

 where he says they occur, and the formation litho- 

 logically very different from what he describes. 

 It is typical Empire formation. 



Mr. Arnold's article that he says my work 

 was adopted from is " Geological Reconnais- 

 sance of the Coast of the Olympic Peninsula, 

 Washington," 2 totalling 18 pages; my cited 

 article, " Some Notes on the Olympic Penin- 

 sula," covers 108 pages besides plates. 



I visited the region and collected the fossils 

 described myself, with the exception of the 

 fossil Banella marshalli, which was given me 

 by Mr. Marshall, as is stated in the article. I 

 made a good many trips to the place both with 

 Indians and whites. We went both by canoe 

 up the river and also on foot in from Quil- 

 layute Prairie. James Clark, now county com- 

 missioner of Clallam County, Washington, ac- 

 companied me on my first trip; George Wood- 

 rough, now of Ilwaco, Washington, was with 



1 Reprint from Proceedings of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Volume LII., No. 212, No- 

 vember-December, 1913. 



2 Bull. Geol. Soc. America, Vol. 17, pp. 451-462. 



me on another trip. On practically all the 

 trips I crossed the Devil's Club Swamp from 

 the bend in the river to the bluffs adjacent 

 and north of where Maxfield Creek entered 

 Quillayute Eiver when that river ran against 

 the western bluffs, instead of about a half mile 

 eastward as it does now (at the old mouth of 

 Maxfield Creek — not a later mouth of that 

 creek). Wo fossils were collected in the Devil's 

 Club Swamp; the article is very plain on this 

 point, that the fossils were collected in the 

 bluffs west of the old mouth of Maxfield Creek 

 (that is, from near the present mouth north- 

 ward along the bluffs). 



I will now quote from page 203 of my cited 

 article : 



Quillayute Formation. — (This is under the gen- 

 eral heading "Pliocene," on page 202.) This 

 formation occupies the valley of the Quillayute 

 River and the country drained by its western trib- 

 utaries at least to their respective middle courses. 

 . . . The boundaries of the formation were not de- 

 termined. In the interior region, where exposed 

 along the Bogachiel River, it is composed of sand- 

 stone and bluish shale; the coast exposures are all 

 conglomerates or a coarse, gravelly rock resting un- 

 conformably upon the older rocks exposed there. 

 The base of the formation was not seen, conse- 

 quently was not ascertained. The sandstone series 

 was found to be extremely fossiliferous, and in it 

 the fossils are beautifully preserved. Fossils were 

 found in two horizons — in the north bank of the 

 Bogachiel River in a bluish gray rock in section 22, 

 township 28 north, range 14 west of the Willamette 

 meridian, and in the bluff south of the abandoned 

 channel of Maxfield CreeJc on the south side of 

 the Bogachiel Eiver, in sections 28 and 29 of the 

 township and range above. But fossils were ob- 

 tained only from the latter location, as the former 

 was below the surface of the water at the time 

 visited. Below is a description of the fossils ob- 

 tained. 



Fossils of the Quillayute Formation — Lower? 

 Pliocene, exposed in the Vicinity of Quillayute, 

 Washington : 



Here follows a two-page comparison of the 

 Quillayute-formation fossils with the fossils of 

 other regions, with the final conclusion (page 

 206) that: 



Consequently, this (the comparison results) 

 would seem to place the formation at the bottom 



