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In the strata which are marked Lower Permian, Maj. Hawn 
collected sixteen species of fossils found in the Coal Nensititig 
and forty-one species not seen below the Permian. Near 
of the forty-one species are Permian types, and sixteen of them 
seem to be identical with well known | uropean species. In the 
there are Siiyeon. species of Permian fossils and only» ache 
Carboniferous; and yet, although the Permian species are 
_ Much more numerous, the Carboniferous specimens are sis 
more abundant, about as ten to one of the Permian forms. 
_ Of these Permian fossils I have described thirty-four new 
Species peal Mr. Meek ten. 
_ _ In an economical point of view, these Permian beds are very 
Sr a The gypsum they contain, will enable rons farmer to 
| a Be e€0 te oh will also Hoa as the commercial 
demands of the Mississippi valley, which are now met by im- 
There has been some misunderstanding in relation to 
a ‘oa Pemiicn fossils of Kansas. This has all arisen, as I appre- 
end, from a misunderstanding of the arrangement between ae 
Hawn and Mr. Meek. It may be proper to state in 
Oe as the existence of that formation in various parts 
“ay paper declaring the discovery of several shy pts — 
n fossils in the valley of the Cotton-wood i 
“On deh on of March Dr. B. ¥F. Shumard announced the dis- 
‘Overy of Rocks by Dr. G. G. Shumard in the Guada- 
. ; sicuntaing in New aiccioo. 
Dr. Norwood'’s ge showing the existence of Permian Rocks 
2 ose and Henry counties in Illinois, was read in 
the St. Louis oaeas on the 5th of April. 
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