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in varying degrees. It may be noted, for instance, that the char- 
acteristic cystid. Comar ocystites shumardi (see 4 in Description of 
species), described from the Kimmswick of Cape Girardeau, in 
southeastern Missouri, was found by the writer also in the large 
quarry northwest of West Kimmswick, 85 miles northwest of 
Cape Girardeau, but the most diligent search failed to reveal this 
fossil in Pike or Ralls County, in northeastern Missouri. More- 
over in Bassler’s Index, Echinosphaerites aurantium is listed from 
the Kimmswick of Missouri, presumably from Cape Girardeau 
in the southeastern part of the state, but no trace of this fossil 
has been found in the northeastern part of that state. 
7. STUDIES OF ONLY ONE LOCAL AUBURN AND ONE LOCAL KIMMS- 
WICK FAUNA PUBLISHED SO FAR 
Unfortunately, only two studies of the Champlainian faunas 
here under consideration have been published so far. The first 
of these is a detailed study by Prof. E. B. Branson of the fauna 
of the Auburn chert, as exposed along a road side east of the 
village of Auburn, in the north central part of Lincoln County. 
This study was published in 1909, in volume 18 of the Transac- 
tions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. The following 
year, in 1910, Prof. T. E. Savage published a detailed study of 
the stratigraphic succession of the faunal elements of the Kimms- 
wick limestone as exposed along the Mississippi River, three- 
fourths of a mile south of Thebes, in Illinois. This famous lo- 
cality is only about 6 or 7 miles southeast of Cape Girardeau, on 
the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. Both of these studies 
are confined to single formations as exposed at single localities. 
No corresponding faunal studies have been published of the 
McCune, Prosser, Plattin, Bryant, or Folley limestones of Mis- 
souri or of the adjacent parts of Illinois. 
