3Iichael Tuomeij. — Smith. 211 
1848. 
Report on the geolof?y of South Carolina, by M. Tuomey. Cohimbia, 
S. C: printed and published for the State by A. S. Johnston. 4to. 293 
pp., with appendix. Catalogue of the fauna of South Carolina, by Lewis 
R. Gibbes. pp. i-xxiv. Meteorological tables, by Robert Lebby. Copy of 
Van uxem's Report from Mill's statistics of South Carolina, pp. xxxi- 
xxxii. Indigo, analysis of marls and soils, with index, pp. xxxiii-lv, 
and geological map of the State. 
Reviewed Vjy Thomas S. Bouve, Amer. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 2d Ser., 
vol. VIII, pp. 61-73. 1849. The first four chapters of this report give an 
interesting treatise on the science of geology, embracing a general de- 
scription of the formations of the earth's surface. The eight chapters 
on the geology of the State contain an account of the unstratified rocks 
found in South Carolina, exclusively in the upper or northwestern dis- 
tricts: also chapters on the nonfossiliferous series of stratified rocks. 
Iron ores. The gold formation received the author's particular atten- 
tion. Chapter IV, relates to the disintegration and denudation of the 
Primary and metamorphic rocks. Palaeozoic rock.s, etc. Chapter V, geol- 
ogy of the upper districts. Chapter VI, Upper Secondary or Cretaceous 
system. Tertiary serie.'^. Eocene. Beds of the Charleston basin, etc. 
Chapter VII, Economical geology. 
Letter to Dr. S. G. Morton from M. Tuomey. Proc. Am. Assoc. Advt. 
Sci., vol. I, pp. 32 33. 
Prof. Tuomey states that six species of Cretaceous fossils are found 
at Wilmington, N. C, and Santee, S. C, commingled with an Eocene 
molluscan fauna. 
The characteristic Cretaceous forms are : Amnionitcs ptoce<i/o De 
Kay, Trigonia thoracica Morton, TerebratiUa harlani Morton, Plagios- 
toma gregale Morton. O.strea jicindd Morton. GrypJuea muiabilis Mor- 
ton. 
1850. 
First Biennial Report on the geology of Alabama by M. Tuomey, geol- 
ogist of the State: profes.sor of geology in the University of Alabama. 
Tuscaloosa, printed by M. D. J. Slade, 8vo, 17G pp. Reviewed Am. 
Jour. Sci. and Arts, 2d Series, vol. x, pp. 299.300. 
A geological map was prepared to accompany this report but it was not 
received from the printer in time for publication with the report. Some 
few copies were distributed l)y the author in sending out the report. 
The report contains chapters on the Primary and metamorphic rocks of 
Alabama; Silurian or older fossiliferous rocks; Economical relations of 
the Red Mountain group; Carlxmiferous system, with economic rela- 
tions: Cretaceous and Tertiary systems. 
1851. 
Notice of the geology of the Florida Keys and of the southern coast 
of Florida, by M. Tuomey. Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, 2d Series, vol. xi, 
pp. .390.391. 
1852. 
Description of some fossil shells from the Tertiary of the southern 
.states. Proc. Acad. Sci., Phila., vol. vi, pp. 192-191. 
