126 Scientific Intelligence. 
Scudder, and our extracts are from these papers, and from some of 
the notes of Dr. Hayden, furnished us by him. 
Photograph No. 9, illustrates a peculiar feature of the surface 
near the junction of Hilter Creek with Green river. The forma- 
8 appearance of the surface carries with it, also, the aspect of 
desolation. There is little vegetation but the wild sage, Chenopo- 
diaceous shrubs, and other plants which love the alkaline soils. Lit- 
tle depressions occur here and there in which the surface waters 
accumulate in wet weather; but in the dry season the water evap- 
Photograph No. 10, illustrates a cut along the railroad through 
imestone. Some of 
part of silica, lime, and some clay, excellent material for the pre- 
servation of organic remains. Besides, all the rocks are more or 
One of these excavations along the railroad bears the name of the © 
“Petrified Fish Cut,” on account of the thousands of beautiful and 
: f : 
little herring are found on an area a square foot. 
water plants, and a remarkable specimen of a Seather of a bird has 
