138 Scientific Intelligence. 
(2) the identification, for the first time, of the Permian over the 
Mountain region; (3 
u 
and geological history, while full also of groundless personal claims — 
I review some of these points, ees 
Supposed Triassic of Lake Superior—Prof. Agassiz admits that he 
believes Mr. Marcou to be wrong with respect to the Triassic (“New 
Red”) character of the Lake Superior Sandstone, and thus we do nt 
Logan, Hunt, and many others, and gross] unjust to American science 
differ as to this one of the claims. 
these rocks, and the Connecticut river and Virginia beds, as well #8 
500,000 square miles of territory over the Rocky Mountains, “New Rely 
he is indignant that Hall, Whitney, Logan, Prof. Rogers, etc., do not follot 
in his track. After giving a one-sided view of opinions on the differest 
rocks which he classes together as undoubted “New Red” he says? 
“It is difficult to present an age of strata in a manner more ambiguous ead 
empatée. The brothers Roger i 
as C us, and sometimes also as umbral and vespertine, or in ordinar caghe 
as Lower Carboniferous, he 
“They have not thought of putting the New Red in the Upper Silurian dd 
Tertiary. I woul vise these honorable savants to consider if one of these ® eal 
minations would not be preferable.” aaa 
- The jumble here is of Mr. Marcou’s making, and it comes of hur 
errors about the “New Red.” We let the style of criticism go py 
remark, satisfied for the present with italicizing only some of the 9” 
characteristic parts. me 
While on this topic, Mr. Marcon, noticing that Dr. D. D. Owen 
en the sam tne 
. Disregardin 
+ ing the hints from the imperfect fossils, he made the beds Pe 
> Uthological characters and superposition alone. 
