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now, and successive marine shore lines mark stages of the ensuing 
epeirogenic uplift of the land to its present hight. 
Three appendixes are included at the end of this report. The first 
gives the Chippewyan names of places; the second is a vocabulary of 
words used by the Inland Eskimos who live on the Kazan and Ferguson 
rivers; and the third is a list of the plants collected (excepting algae and 
fungi), as determined by Prof. John Macoun, with notes of their 
localities. w. u. 
Batesville Sandstone of Arkansas. By Stuart Weller. (Trans. 
New York Acad. Sci., vol. X\T, pp. 251-285, 1897.) 
Until very recently the Ozark region was one of the largest tracts 
in the country that remained a veritable "terra incognita" to geologists. 
Of late years, however, workers in different parts of the region brought 
out, more or less completely, local successions of formations, but these 
were never paralleled exactly with those of neighboring districts. This 
was especially true of the later Paleozoic deposits. On the north side 
of the great dome the formations just referred to were finally brought 
into strict accordance with the standard sections of the Mississippi 
basin. On the south side of the uplift, in Arkansas, and Indian terri- 
tory, little effort was made to compare the various portions of the 
general section of that region with the more typical localities to the 
north. In the southern district, also, an entirely new set of names was 
applied, which in the absence of exact data and knowledge regarding 
the northern representatives precluded any but the most general com- 
parisons of their probable equivalents. About the only formation of the 
lower Carboniferous, for instance, that was correlated, with any degree 
of certainty, with the northern sections was the Boone chert, which was 
thought to represent, in part at least, the well known Burlington lime- 
stone. It was at a subsequent time that the Kaskaskia division was 
clearly recognized in northwestern .Arkansas and the adjoining part of 
Indian territory, with indications of the St. Louis limestone nearby in 
Missouri; also farther eastward on the tributaries of the White river 
the Kiriderhook was definitely made out, so that all four of the main 
subdivisions of the Mississippian series, or Lower Carboniferous, were 
differentiated around the entire northern two-thirds of the Ozark uplift. 
Much of the Arkansas part of the dome remained uncorrected. 
It is, then, with special welcome that the results of the recent work 
of professor Weller, in the Carboniferous of northeastern Arkansas, are 
received. Under the modest title of "The Batesville Sandstone of 
Arkansas" appears one of the most important contributions to our 
knowledge of the geology of the Ozark region that has yet appeared. 
The .succession of the Carboniferous, as represented in the Batesville 
district and of northern Arkansas generally is shown to be as clearly 
defined, and with the same subdivision, as in the typical localities along 
the Mississippi river. The following is the table of equivalent for- 
mations: 
