TO 



GEORGE A. TRENHOLM, ESQ,, 



As an evidence of my friendship and regard, 



AND 



in grateful acknowledgment under which his kindness has placed me, 



THIS VOLUME 



descriptive of the fossils of the Post-Pleiocene of our Native State, and belonging to 



a period in the geological sequence, connecting the past with 



the present History of our Earth, 



IS DEDICATED, 



by his friend and kinsman, 



FRANCIS S. HOLMES. 



