298 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
may be termed school learning, constitutes the basis and chief condition 
of progress and of every improvement. man with a min 
t. A young 
well stored with solid scientific acquirements will, without difficulty or 
eral, an individual who is thoroughly master of the technical part may be 
altogether incapable of seizing upon any new fact that has not previously 
presented itself to him, or of comprehending a scientific principle and its 
application."—Liebig, Letters on Modern Agriculture, edited by John 
Blyth, MD, 
3. Dr. Newberry’s late Explorations in New Mexico—he shows Marcou’s 
so-called Jurassic to be Cretaceous.— Advices have been received from Dr. 
Newberry at Santa Fé, N. Me 
eek, Dr. N., following the Santa Fé road from Independence, Mo., to 
to 
Feta was a lig -colored Magnesian Limestone. From 
Little Arkansas to Walnut creek the surface rocks were Red, Yellow and 
White Marls and Gypsum, so characteristic of the Llano Estacado and 
the country west of the Rio Grande. There were no fossils. These are 
the beds seen by Meek and Hayden and described by them as between 
the lower Cretaceous and the Permian in Kansas, some 35 to 40 miles 
farther to the northeast, and which rocks they state in their paper may 
be either Jurassic or Triassic—but they (like Dr. Newberry) discovered 
no fossils in them. . ct 
_ On the banks of Walnut creek, a tributary of the Arkansas—a little — 
ne farther west, Dr. Newberry saw the same red or brown sandstone from 
which Messrs, Meek and Hayden collected the fossil leaves on Smoky Hill 
