J Sfinlji of tin- Bclrldere Jirds. — Cnii'liii. 359 
for "Belvidei'e shales,'" one, twice signitied by use, makes that 
term an exact synonym of Kiowa sliales as first proposed. 
The other, a definition proposed but contradicted by use in 
the sarne article, makes a few feet of sediments that appear 
below the main body of the Kiowa shales in one ])art of their 
area the excuse for coining a new term, whose meaning is so 
little and locally different from that of th<- prior toriii. Kiowa 
shales, as to be virtually a synonym of it. 
If a geological subdivision must be given a confessedlv new 
name whenever one chooses to pare it off or add to it a little, 
or has doubt about the original disposal of some small frac- 
tion of it, "(.'onfusion worse confounded" will increasingh'- re- 
sult and finally reign supreme in the science of stratigra])hic 
geology. 
Prof. Hill did not think it necessary to find a new name for 
the Fredericksl^urg division when he removed the (ilen Rose 
beds from it: and it is therefore hardly needful to find a new 
name for tiie Kiowa shales whether the little Champion bed. 
^^riginally included as a basal and local fraction of the latter, 
be left in them or removed from them. These two instances 
merel}'^ illustrate the fact that in the majority of cases it is 
impossible to so define a newly proposed terrane that the defi- 
nition shall not be liable to future reasonable modification. 
If the name Belvidere be considered as retired hy the unfor- 
tunate double and synonynious use (»f if above cited, or una- 
A'ailable because too nearly like the name of the Austrian 
Belvedere beds, the designation Walhcr heils, referring to 
Walker's draw, a well known branch of the Medicine Lodge 
river south of Belvidere, on which exposures of all ofthesul)- 
(livisions of tliis grf)Ui) are seen, may be used as the collective 
name for the Cheyenne, Champion and Kiowa. Hut owing to 
the prominent part that the vicinity of Belvidere has played in 
the history of ()ur knowledge of the Comanche rocks of Kansas, 
it seems fitting (and on other grounds it has Ixmmi shown not 
unreasonable) to retain the name Belvidere in some one of the 
fraternity of stratigraphic senses in which I'rof. Hill has used 
it. For the pi-esent, therefore, the term Belvidere l)e(ls seem> 
preferable to that of Walker betls as the collective designation 
for the Cheyenne saiulstone, the ('hampion shell-l)e(l and thr 
Kiowa shales. 
