^^^ The American (jeoloyist. l5oceiiiber, ibst:, 
from the estciblished one, Belvedere; and it was feared that 
it might be too near the older name. l>iit if it be considered 
that two terms n-ally. even if slightly, different in spelling 
and applying to deposits widely separated in locality and ge- 
ological age are in no danger of confusion — a view that seems 
not unreasonable — tiieii the writer would suggest that the 
name Belvidere be retained, not in the synonymous term 
"Belvidere shales," recently substituted for Ki(nva shales by 
Prof. Hill in an article in the American .lournal of Science,* 
but in the tenu Jiih-iderc hail.s^ used in the Plains section of 
the same article, and including the Cheyenne sandstone and 
the KioM^a shales, together with No, 5 of the Belvidere section, 
a terrane that the writer formerly included with the Kiowa 
shales and that Prof. Hill's recent article makes first a part of 
the Kiowa shales {ride vf infra) and then a part of the Chey- 
enne sandstone, and which is here recognized as a formation 
separate from either of these, though related to both, and 
called the Clvoiiiiioii s/ieJI-hcd. 
Prof. Hill is not very consistent in his use of the name Bel- 
videre in the article referred to. He first uses the term Bel- 
videre shales in his Black Hills sectionf as an exact synonym 
of Kiowa shales as the latter term was originally defined, or in 
other words so as to include the Champion shell-bed (his No. 
4) ; then defines Belvidere shales;); so as to exclude the Cham- 
pion shell-betl; and on the same page with the definition, caps 
this combination by using the term Belvidere beds§ to include 
the Kiowa shales and the (-heyenne sandstone; and finally he 
gives II a list of fossils which, he states, the writer has reported 
from the "Belvidere shales," and here again he includes the 
Champion shell-beds in these shales, as his listing of the 
( hampion fossils, .isfroiut'nia nidi/or in is^ M anjarita neicber- 
r)/i, etc., shows. Thus four expressions of views, within the 
limits of one article, present three conflicting stratigraphic 
niieanings for "Belvidere," — two meanings for "Belvidere 
shales" and one for "Belvidere beds." Of the two meanings 
*Outlying Areas of the Comanche Series in Kansas, Oklahoma and 
New Mexico. R. T. Hill: lor. eit.. September. 189."). 
tLoc. cit., page 208. 
ILoc. cit., page 211. 
v?In his Plains section. 
Loc. ('it., [jages 214. 21."). 
