86 The American Geologist. August, lytnt 
Jersey, six miles southeast of Camden, where he continued to 
live for many years. On Jan. 28, he was elected corresponding 
secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences and served until 
Dec. 24, 1876, when he was succeeded by Dr. Geo. H. Horn. 
In a letter from Pemberton, Burl. Co. N. J., March 17, 
1868, he says that he had an excursion through the marl coun- 
try this season. 
"My friend, Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, had, however, planned 
to go a little earlier, so I accompanied him. We have been off a 
little over a week and have had good success altogether, though the 
weather has been very bad. * * * Prof. Marsh has studied and 
traveled in Europe for three years, and is very familiar with their in- 
vertebrate fossils. We have procured three new species of Saurians. 
apparently of known genera; one a Mosasaurus, one a Gavial, and 
one of large size is very near the Cetacea. It must be referred for the 
present to a genus named by Leidy Brimosaurus, of which a species 
from Arkansas, is slightly known. It is very large and has measured 
35 feet at least. But it is not altogether certain that Brimosaurus may 
not be some strange Cetacean." 
Haddonfield, N. J., March 22, '68. "I may not be out of place in 
taking another stay among the mountains south, next summer. I 
think it will not be best for me to work much in the study there, and 
as it is best to be a whole man at one thing at a time I would think 
rather to explore nature, than spend the time at farming. My near 
objects in the former are two. ist., to get at the principles of develop- 
ment and progress of animals (including man) by a thorough dem- 
onstration of the same in some one group; 2nd, to get out a manual 
of compar. — anatomy for school and college use." 
Pleasant Garden, McDowell Co., N. Ca., Oct. 14, 1869. * . * * 
"I found in Henderson a long erect tubular Sarracenia which was al- 
waj's full of insects of many kinds, also rare salamanders," etc. * * 
"I took thick clothing, gum blankets, etc., and rode on a mule along 
the French Broad river to the Swanonoa river. Then up this beautiful 
stream 12 miles to the North Fork, which rises in the Black range, 
and flows between two high chains — the Craggy on the west and 
the Blue ridge on the east. Both of these rise to points higher than 
Mt. Washington." * * "We passed round the bases of Mt. Gibbs 
and the Sugarloaf to the top of the highest peak, Mt. Clingman. The 
views from the peaks are magnificent and no doubt the most pic- 
turesque in eastern North America. One sees 1-200 miles of the Cum- 
berland with the great valley at their feet, and the lowlands along the 
Catawba river, in South Carolina. There are 25 peaks in sight higher 
than Mt. Washington; the near ones of the Black, Craggy and Blue 
Ridge ranges present the most picturesque variety, but the Great 
Smoky on the border of Tennessee keeps its back up for a long dis- 
tance (70 miles) to within 60 feet of the Clingman's peak, (the latter is 
