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pebbles are to be found overhing the Eocene everwhere, capping the 

 hilltops, and unconformable to the Eocene in every case. At the Lunch 

 Club of the United States Geological Survey, McGee was the subject of 

 a good deal of good-natured chaffing for having surrendered his name 

 "Appomattox." Clearly, Doctor Hilgard was entitled to consideration 

 in this matter of renaming the formation, but how many would have had 

 the unselfishness to do the right thing at the sacrifice of a little personal 

 credit ? 



Although McGee's work on the Lafayette belongs to the modern time, 

 it may not be passed over even in a fragmentary sketch like this. While 

 we may not all agree with his conclusions as to the mode of origin of the 

 Lafayette, and while some things foreign have been included by him in 

 his Lafayette, yet his treatise in the Twelfth Annual Eeport of the Di- 

 rector of the United States Geological Survey will always stand as one 

 of the classics of American geology. 



