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The Rev. Dr. Charles Marsh Mead, for 

 fltteen years a professor at the Andover 

 Theological Seminary, and later at the 

 Hartford Seminary, died suddenly last week 

 at New Haven. Dr. Mead, whose home was 

 in Cornwall, Vt., was one of the original 

 members of the American Bible Revision 

 Committee, and was active in the work of 

 the revision of the Old and New Testaments. 

 He was born in 1836; he graduated from 

 Middlebury College in 1856. and from An- 

 dover Seminary in 1862. Three years at 

 German universities led up to the Ph.D. de- 

 gree which be gained at Tubingen Prom 

 Middlebury he received the D.D. and LL D 



and from Princeton the former degree His 

 works include: "Exodus" (in Lange's Com- 

 mentary), "The Soul Here and Hereafter" 

 "faupernatural Revelation," "Romans Dis- 

 sected" (under pen-name E.D. McRealsham 

 also in German, "Der Romerbrief beur- 

 theilt und geviertheilt," under pen-name 

 Carl Hesedamm), "Christ and Criticism " 

 and "Irenic Theology." 3' 



The Oamlrian Rooks of Vermont : G. H. Perkins, 

 State Geologist of Vermont. 

 So far as satisfactorily determined, the Cam- 

 brian of Vermont occupies a narrow strip from 

 north to south through the state between the 

 Green Mountains and Lake Champlain. lu some 

 places they reach the shore of that lake and form 

 the boldest of the headlands. 



Northward the Cambrian extends to the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence and south through New York to 

 middle Alabama. 



It is probable that there are derivatives from 

 Cambrian strata in and east of the Green Moun- 

 tains, but none have been certainly identified. So 

 far as studied, all the beds belong to the Olenellus 

 zone of Waleott, or Lower Cambrian. The very 

 interesting and extensive fault and overthrust by 

 which Cambrian strata were lifted and thrown 

 over the Utioa is noticed. In all there are not 

 less than 10,000 feet of Cambrian beds in western 

 Vermont. These beds consist of 1,000 feet of more 

 or less silieious limestone, and the other rocks are 

 shales, sandstones, quartzites, conglomerates, of 

 very diverse color composition and texture. In a 

 few places the red sandrock beds change to a 

 thick-bedded brecciated calcareous rock which 

 when worked is the Winooski or Champlain 

 marble— a mottled red and white stone used in 

 many large buildings in many parts of the 

 country. 



Few of ttv beds are fossiliferous, but some 

 abound in trilobites, Olenellus, Ptychoparia, etc., 

 and a few braehiopods, worm burrows, trilobite 

 and other tracks, etc., are also found. In all the 

 number of species is not large, probably not more 

 than fifty have been found. Of these, trilobites 

 form the larger number, braehiopods coming next. 

 A large portion of the species were described from 

 the Vermont beds and many have not been found 

 elsewhere. 



Most of the beds are thin, but there are some 

 several feet thick. 



The great beds of roofing slate which are ex- 

 tensively worked in southwestern Vermont are 

 included in the Cambrian. 



