210 The American Geologist. Octobor. i897 
ANNOTATED LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF PROF. TUOMEY. 
Prepared by Capt. Anthony W. Vogdes, U. S. A. 
1842. 
Discovery of a chambered univalve fossil in the Eocene Tei-tiary of 
James river, Virginia: by M. Ttiomoy. Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 1st Ser. 
vol. XLiiii, p. 187. 
This notice of a Nautilus in the Eocene is without a name for the fos- 
sil. The specimen was obtained from a shaft sunk at the base of the 
escarpment at Evergreen, near City Point from a dark colored tenacious 
play. 
Discovery of a chambered univalve shell in the Eocene Tertiary of 
James river, Virginia. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, vol. x, pp, 
156-157. 
A reprint from Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliii. 
1843. 
Notice of the discovery of a new locality of the "Infusorial stratum," 
by M. Tuomey. Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 1st Series, vol. xliv, pp. ,339- 
341. 
The author states that at Petersburg, Virginia, on Poplar lawn, the 
western edge of the Eocene is cut through and exposed in a small stream 
which crosses Walnut street. For about the distance of a quarter of a 
mile southeast from this point the Eocene is again hid by the Heights. 
These beds are again cut through by a stream which forms the bound- 
ary of the corporation; and on the west side of the valley of this stream 
the infusorial stratum occurs. The author's section gives about 20 feet 
of Eocene sand and clays with 30 feet for the infusorial bed, 
1844. 
Report on the geological and agricultural survey of the State of South 
Carolina, by M. Tuomey, geological surveyor of the State. Columbia, 
S. C, printed by A- S. Johnston. 8vo, 62 pp. 
The report contains a chapter on the Primary rocks. Also a section 
on iron ores, gold mines, with a chapter on economical geology. 
1846. 
Report of M. Tuomey Esq., State geologist, S. C, to the city council 
of Charleston. "Courier" June 25th. 
This report contains a section to illustrate the Charleston basin with 
an account of the artesian well at Charleston. 
The report was also issued separately and distributed by the author, 
without date or reference to the newsi^aper publication. 
1847. 
On the cranium of the Zeuglodon from the Upper Eocene of South 
Carolina, by M. Tuomey. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. iii, no. 7. 
This paper is noted in the Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 2d Ser., vol. iv, 
p. 149; also copied in full on pp. 283-285 of the same volume. The fossil 
was discovered in the Eocene beds of Ashley river, about 10 miles from 
Charleston . 
