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No. 459-] AMBER IN EASTERN UNITED STATES. 143 
article above quoted, also indulges in speculations concerning the 
kind of wood from which the amber was probably derived, and 
says (p. 13): “But I have not been able to ascertain the species 
to which it belongs." 
Apparently nothing further was recorded in regard to the 
subject until 1830, when S. G. Morton published a paper 
entitled: “Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Ferru- 
ginous Sand Formation of the United States, with Geological 
Remarks” (Am. Journ. Sci., vol. 17, 1830, pp. 274-295) in which 
he mentions (p. 293) “vast deposits of lignite with amber," in 
the sections exposed in cuttings made for the Delaware and 
Chesapeake canal. Incidental reference to the above may also 
be found in a subsequent article * On the Analogy which exists 
between the Marl of New Jersey and the Chalk Formation of 
Europe” (/bid., vol. 22, 1832, pp. 90-95). 
After this, for a period of some fifty years, our native amber 
apparently attracted but little attention, or at least there does 
not seem to have been anything additional recorded in regard 
to it during that time. A popular article, by Mrs. Erminnie A. 
Smith, entitled * Concerning Amber," was published in the 
American Naturalist, for March, 1880, in which the only refer- 
ence in this connection is the following brief paragraph (p. 187) : 
* Very little amber has as yet been found in the United States. 
Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Camden, N. J., and Cape Sable, 
Md., only are mentioned as its localities. A barrel full of small 
pieces was taken out of the greensand in New Jersey, which 
through some mistake was burned." 
At a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, on 
February sth, 1883, Mr. Geo. F. Kunz exhibited a mass of 
amber 3 Ib. in weight, which was said to have come from the 
Tertiary deposits of Nantucket, and read a paper “ On a large 
Mass of Cretaceous Amber from Gloucester County, New Jer- 
sey," in which was described a mass weighing 64 oz., found in 
Kirby's marl pit, near Harrisonville (Trans. JV. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 
2, 1883, pp. 85-86). In the subsequent discussion of this paper 
Dr. J. S. Newberry is quoted as remarking that “in one pit [in 
Gloucester Co.] a whole barrel full had been found and burned 
by the workmen " ; which remark probably has reference to the 
