Megalonyx in Holmes county, Ohio. — Glaypole. 149 
Towanda, who survived her devoted husband only three years. 
Six children, thi-ee sons and three daughters, were the fruit of this 
happy union. Their names according to age are as follows : 
Edward O., Towanda, Pa., Superintendent of Barclay R. R. & Coal 
Co., and President Citizen's National Bank. 
Ella L., Wife of William Little, Esq., Towanda, Pa. 
Graham, Civil and Mining Engineer, Louisville, Ky. 
May C, Wife of E. J. Angle, Esq., Towanda, Pa. 
James R., Attorney at Law, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Eugenia H., Towanda, Pa. 
It is to the youngest son, James R, Macfarlane, that geologists 
owe the completion of the second edition of the " G-uide. " Prob- 
ably none but the writer, and a few others, know under what 
great difficulties this volume was prepared. The death of the 
father had left all except the first portion in an unfinished condi- 
tion. Yet, at a great sacrifice of time and money, the young bar- 
rister, just starting in life, undertook as a labor of love and as a 
tribute to his father's memory, to gather up the broken threads of 
the "Guide," to finish collecting material, and weave all into the 
orderly system the father had outlined. Few can form any esti- 
mate of the amount of work which thus devolved upon the son. 
During its progress he suffered a double bereavement, his loving 
mother and devoted wife, who had aided him much in his work, 
both passing over to the "silent majority. " How well he accom- 
plished his self-imposed task, the volume of 426 pages, just is- 
sued during the past year, speaks for itself. Geologists cannot 
appreciate too highly the labor and self-sacrifice of the son, in 
thus carrrying forward to successful completion, under so many 
discouraging circumstances, a work involving so much toil for one 
whose daily occupation was foreign to subjects connected with 
geology. 
MEGALONYX IN HOLMES COUNTY, OHIO, 1 890. 
By E. W. Cl-ATPOLB, Akron, O. 
II. 
V. Geographical Range. 
The range of these extinct sloths is, generally speaking, nearly 
the same for all the genera. Confined entirely to the New World 
they were, for the most part, inhabitants of Smith America, but 
