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The third paper was by the same author, entitled 



FA UNA OF THE CLIFF WOOD CLA YS 

 BY STUART WELLER 



[Abstract] 



The flora of the Cliffwood clays on the south shore of Raritan bay, New Jersey, 

 has been studied in detail by Hollick and Berry, but no careful study of the fauna 

 of these beds had previously been attempted. An investigation of this fauna by 

 the author shows its close ralationship to the faunas of the " clay-marl " formations 

 above, but at the same time shows that the Cliffwood fauna possesses an individual 

 character of its own. The geographic distribution of the beds containing the 

 fauna is limited to a small area bet weed Cliffwood point and the head of Cheesquake 

 creek, while the superjacent Merchantville clay, with its uniform fauna, extends 

 entirely across the state of New Jersey. The basal line of the Merchantville clays 

 can be traced as a natural geologic horizon across New Jersey, separating the hete- 

 rogeneous, usually non-marine Raritan beds beneath from the remarkably constant 

 marine beds of the ' ' clay-marl " formations above. The marine Cliffwood clays 

 represent a limited transgression of the marine conditions from the Atlantic basin 

 into the area where non-marine sedimentation had been in progress during the 

 greater portion of Raritan time. These Cliffwood clays are the most notable exam- 

 ple of such marine sediments in the Raritan, but not the only example, since ma- 

 rine fossils have also been found toward the base of the Raritan near Sayresville. 

 In mapping the Cliffwood clays they should be included in the Raritan rather than 

 with the superjacent beds. 



The paper was discussed by H. B. Kummel, T. W. Stanton, H. S. 

 Williams, and Arthur Hollick. The full paper will be printed in the 

 annual reports of the Geological Survey of New Jersey. . 



The fourth paper was 



MESOZOIC SECTION OF COOK INLET AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA 

 BY T. W. STANTON AND G. C. MARTIN 



Remarks were made by H. M. Ami and the author. The paper is 

 printed as pages 391-410 of this volume. 



The fifth and last paper presented in full wasithe following: 



TERTIARY LIGNITE OF BRANDON, VERMONT, AND ITS FOSSILS 

 BY GEORGE H. PERKINS 



The paper is printed as pages 499-516 of this volume. 



