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insects occur in thin shales, Some of the former are nearly allied 
to species from the fish beds of Green River. 
Prof. Cope follows his statements on these points by others 
! as we before stated, that Mr. 
Meek referred the beds mentioned to the Cretaceous without a 
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the Bitter Creek saurian locality, are less than 75 miles.—Eps.| . 
ati ; ancouver and en Charlotte 
clusively the fact that the coal fields of the two islands belong to 
the same geological horizon. In each case the coal fields are of 
anthracite in formations, as new as the chalk. e coal seams of 
Vancouver rest directly upon crystalline rocks, in which lime- 
stones predominate. Associated and interstratified with the lime- 
Stones are diorite, and what seem to be epidotic and chloritic 
: At Horn Lake (in Vancouver jalan wall of limestone, 
interstratified with hornblende and dioritic rocks, rises almost 
" vs 
near the proposed line of the Pacific Railway, Mr. Richardson 
