•>!^<> rill Ann rii-il II ( iinlnijinf . Ndv.Miihri . IVU 
Study the rivi-r ;iii<l slrcniii. Why does this stream flow hiTc and 
that oiii' there? lias the present i)<)siti()ii l»eeii determined by the 
liaidiies^ and softness of the strata or liv some other cause? 
Have the hiiiidands lieeii elevated or are tiu'V inerelv relies of 
larii'er nuisses that have lieen eroilcd? To what <:('olo*j;ieal era do 
the roeks of the county lieloiiii'. and for what reason ai'c they 
ascril>e(l to t iiat date? 
TlH'se ai'c a few samples of the pi-olilems lyinii liefore the local 
ijeolojiist ami his attemi)ts to solxc tiiem will oive him more <;eo- 
logieal l<n(,)wli'd<»e than the ivadinu- of all the text liooks or the 
committal of their i)a<i'es to memory. 
I ha\t' seen men who knew nothing' of hook jicolo^^v. who 
eould not W\\ whether the Silurian oi' the Carhoniferous strata 
were the older, and who did not concern themselves with the 
theoretical cjuestions that divide the u'eolooical woi'ld. hut who 
were nevertheless, in my opinion, trained and educatecl men. who 
could reason clos»'ly and severely from their data, and whose 
(pieries. suo<>;cste(l ity expei'ience. often jjuzzled learne<| o(>ol()gists 
who heard them. Such men aic too scarce. 
I do not undei'value study of a wider kind. Let all who can 
t'ujoy it. Hut when it is out of reach let none sit down and say 
•I i-annot study tJ^eoloov. 
Such men as described al)<)ve aie ofti'U the life and soul of 
local societies, and it is from tlieii' careful an<l constant work that 
these societies derive a great part of their vahu'. To l>oth we 
look for irreat and increusin": results in the future. 
EEVIEA\' OF EECEXT GEOLOGICAL 
LITEEATURE. 
Oil the YertchniUi from tin' Tertiiiry mid Crefact'otis Jlorhs of tin y . ]V. • 
Territor//. — Tj. T). Com:. (Geol. Sur. of Canada, Vol.iJ [Quarto], 1891, pp. 
2.1.14 pis.) In this part il) Prof. Cope describes "Tlie Species from the 
Oliirocene or Lower Miocene beds of the Cvju'ess Hills." The material, 
from whicli these species are described, was found in a bad state of 
jireservatiou, tlie bones being mudi broken, whicli is accounted for by 
tiie fact that the formation from which they were derived is conglom- 
erate of a quartzitic nature. The beds are somewhat older than the 
White River beds of Dakota, which accounts for the presence of 
Jfnnt'jisiiloiiiit). Five new species of fishes are described, Ainin irhit- 
