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of the European Cretaceous. I also think that the assumption of such 
correlations as have been published, by various authors both in Europe and 
America, is much to be deplored, because it retards rather than advances 
true scientific knowledge. Eor example, the venerable and distinguished 
Professor Roemer, of Breslau, who has published so much upon the fossils 
of the Texan Cretaceous, and who knows the paleontology of the European 
Cretaceous as well as any person living, has referred a eollection of 
Comanche species to the Upper Turonian. He does not merely say that the 
forms which he published are analogous to those of that subdivision of the 
European Cretaceous', but he refers them definitely to the same, as if it 
were as clearly recognizable here as in Europe. On the other hand, the 
Dakota group, after the early claims that its flora indicate Tertiary age 
subsided, has by common consent among a large number of geologists 
been regarded- as of Cenomanian age. 
“Comparatively late investigations have shown that strata equivalent to 
the Dakota group in Texas not only overlie the Comanche series, but that 
there is a wide time-hiatus land unconformity between them; that is, the 
assumed correlations referred to above place one assemblage of strata far 
beneath another when in reality its true place is far above.” 
Diagramatic illustrations. 
436. White, I. C. 
'Fossil Plants of the Wichita or Permian Beds of Texas. 
Bulletin of the Geol. Soc. Amer., Vol. Ill, pp. 217-218. 1892. 
PemarkiS by E. T. Dninble. 
Ib., p. 459. 
The plants were collected by Mr. W. E. Cummins from the Wichita Beds 
along with an invertebrate fauna assigned by Dr. C. A. White to the 
Permian and vertebrate remains assigned by Cope to the same age. They 
were .sent the author for examination by Mr. E. T. Dumble, 'State Geologist. 
A cursory inspection showed them to be identical with or very near rela- 
tives of plants found in West Virginia above the Waynesburg Coal — 
Permian of White and Eontaine. By Professor White the plants were sent 
to Professor Wm. M. Eontaine who wrote; “I am decidedly of the opin- 
ion that this Texas flora is essentially the same as the flora described by 
us in report PP of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania [The 
Permian or Upper Carboniferous flora of West Virginia and Southwest 
Pennsylvania]. Tpe Walchia is the only important determinable plant 
not present in the flora of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.” 
437. Whitfield, J. E., and Merrill, G. P. 
The Fayette County, Texas, MeteoTite. 
Amer. Jour, of Science, III, Yol. XXXYI, pp. 113-119. 
Xew Haven, August, 1888. 
An account of the finding of this meteorite at Bluff, a settlement on the 
Colorado river, three miles southwest of iLaGriange, Eayette county, Texas. 
Description and analyses of the stone which belongs to the class of 
“chondrites.” 
