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which have red greatly increase ed. Dr. Lei y has made nto 
inary reports on the vertebrate fossils, and st go forward with 
the volume whenever the State is ready fo ts publication; the 
species are of great interest, embracing, as “ later Tertiary ” species, 
the elephant, mastodon, rhinoceros, tapir, camel, ee several 
species of the horse family, bison, elotherium, _and any other 
extinct species. The Botanical volume has bee eye progress 
under Professor Brewer. The geological ferveatigatioiie ave been 
continued along the fees ort elsewhere, preparing the way for 
the final reports. These will make two volumes, one on general 
geclogy and the other ou ee mines and useful minerals, or econom- 
ica ; 
“¢ Ad under Professor Whitney has performed its work 
thoroughly re faithfully, and ag volumes of reports unsur- 
passed in excellence in the co untry. Large appropriations to it, to 
hasten on the completion of the field labors and the hale 
would contribute to the honor and best interests of the State 
Swanton, Briures, F.G.S., a Pee og of the Geol 
Surv Canada, —A few aay ago Mr. Solon Burlington, 
Vt., visi seum and informed me tha d a specime 
“ye which I believe to be the S. A sadeholle described in 
m Pal. nibs vol. i, p. 18. This marble, both at Swanton and 5St. 
Albans, seems is underlie the ig slates. It is enerally of a 
reddish, motiled color, but someti ray or greenish, The lime- 
stone at the straits of Belle Isle, in fa whieh S. pulchella is found, is 
also red, gray and greenish ; and i is, I have no doubt, of the same 
age. At this latter locality it overlies a red or brownish sand- 
Belle ‘Isle sandstone to be the “Quartz rock” of the Green moun- 
tains of Vermont. In that case, the limestone at Belle Isle occu- 
Pies, stratigraphically, the podition of the Stockbridge limestone 
Stipes ape sted by Dr. Emmons in his American pee , part 2, 
- On page i ar the same work, Dr. E., speaking of the 
tockbridge i eeties, says: “It is reddish at Wi liamstown and 
Am, Jour. Sct.—Tuirp Sertes, Vou. I1I, No. 14 —Fxs., 1872. 
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