132 The American Geologist. August, 1903. 
search, has returned to Europe in company with Dr. Holland, 
director of the Carnegie Museum, to take up the study of the 
fossil fishes in the famous Bayet Collection, recently acquired 
by the Pittsburgh institution. 
The Department of Botany and Geology in the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota are this year represented at the Minnesota 
Seaside Station, near Port Renfrew on the southwest coast 
of Vancouver island, by professor Conway MacMillan and 
professor C. W. Hall. With a large party of students, they 
left Minneapolis on July 14th, and expect to return August 
26th, by the route of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Four 
weeks will be spent in field and shore collecting and the lab- 
oratory work at the station, now occupied for its third year. 
Mr. Charles Schuchert of the U. S. National Muse- 
um sailed for Europe on June 24th. He will represent the Mu- 
seum at the International Congress of Geologists in Vienna. 
Previous to the meeting he will spend his time studying muse- 
um methods and collecting fossils, particularly in the Silurian 
of Gotland and England, the Ordovician of Russia and the 
Devonian of the Eifel region. After the meeting of the Con- 
gress, Mr. Schuchert intends to devote his time until his return 
in November chiefly to a study of European Silurian and De- 
vonian rocks in furtherance of his work on these systems in 
America. 
Mr. G. H. Stone of Colorado Springs reports that a de- 
posit of coal has recently been found on Turkey creek, about 
one mile south of the north line of Pueblo County, Colo. It 
is on the eastern slope of the Turkey Creek arch as it is termed 
by Gilbert in the Pueblo Folio, U. S. G. S. The stratigraphy 
is unmistakable, the rock in which the coal is found being 
mapped by Gilbert as Dakota and near-by exposures being 
found of all horizons from the Red Beds up to the Montana. 
The massive sandstone stratum in which tracks of saurians 
have been found directly overlies the principal coal bed. The 
sandstone strata are parted by several beds of dark carbona- 
ceous shale, and in many places by thin sheets and bodies of 
coal. Some of these are narrow and appear to have been 
derived from a single plant or branch. The thickest coal bed 
thus far found is about 20 inches in thickness. Only a little 
exploration has as yet been made. The coal contains 54 per 
cent of fixed carbon, and it runs rather high in ash but low in 
water and sulphur. It can be used by blacksmiths, it having 
a higher heating power than the ordinary lignite of this region. 
Coal of poor quality of Dakota age is found near Grand 
Junction and in several other places in southwestern Colorado, 
"but so far as I know this is the first time coal has been found 
in Colorado east of the mountains. 
