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forty miles westward, as of “unknown age,” and those of Evans- 
ton as “Miocene.” 
The Report, loc. cit., p. 306, under: “ 3d column, Zocene,” has: 
“ Mississippi flora from Hilgard’s and Safford’s specimens.” 
“ Marshall mine.” 
“Raton pass, with Purgatory Cafion and Golden City.” 
“ Washakie station.” 
“Evanston, above coal, ete., ete.” 
Concerning Green river and Point of Rocks, I remark, p. 305: 
“The fourth section, marked unknown has the species from locali- 
this cinnamomoides, sp. nov., and Carya Heerii Ett., and from 
Point of Rocks also two species, a Cyperites and Fagus Antiposit 
eer, From this I was not authorized to draw any conclusion. 
two species are described from Green river, and the General Re- 
marks, p. 17, concludes as follows: “The relation of all these 
Species, except Cyperacesr, ete., found everywhere, is evidently 
only remarking, “that three of these species are represented at - 
Evanston, etc., in strata considered as Eocene, but that from the 
i i a 
Presence of Arctic types, which are not fo reen . 
ese strata oc a lower stage in the Tertiary, though higher 
than Evanston, and that therefore its place is in’ the 
Priority of Prof. Cope to the discovery of the so-called Cretace- 
ous characters of the group under ager These char- 
indicated iy botanical paleontology, even from the examin 
a limited number of specimens. 
Columbus, 0., Feb. 15, 1873. 
Am. Jour. Sot.—Tairp ae Vou. V, No, 28,—ArRiz, 1873. 
