Mauch Chunk of Pennsylvania.—Stevenson. 249 
‘of the Devonian and Pocono sedimentation, though further 
north, the Chattanooga shales underlie the Chemung as that, 
still further north, underlies the Pocono. There is no room 
for surprise when Pocono or Waverly fossils are found in the 
Chattanooga shales of Tennessee, nor should there be ground 
for surprise if Waverly fossils are found in the Grainger shales 
further north, but still south from the southern limit of Po- 
cono.* 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 
THE HuGH MILLER CENTENARY. 
It is one hundred years since the birth of Hugh Miller at 
Cromarty. ; 
The senior geologists of English speaking peoples into 
whose youthful] interests the inspiriting writings of this most 
unusual man profoundly entered, he has laid under a debt of 
gratitude. If it is less the fashion in this,day to read_ his 
writings, the younger generation of geologists is depriving 
itself of brilliant bits of geologic painting in wondrous setting. 
A_more alluring tale than that of Miller’s early life and the 
achievements of his manhood is rarely written.. Born 
amid the enchantments of sea and mountain, a child of the 
poor, an incorrigible truant at school because so devoted a 
lover of nature, the story of his early ambition to’ acquire a 
command of good English and of his delight in his pen, of his 
hardhanded labors a$ a stone-mason, apprentice and mastet 
(a calling which he selected because of the opportunity it 
afforded for studying in the evening hours), of his zealous ac- 
quisition of the products of the best English writers, and of 
his brilliant discoveries in geology, has been most charmingly 
and modestly told by himself. Miller’s influence upon his 
own and the present generation is not to be ascribed to his 
actual contributions to the knowledge of geological facts, his 
Old Red sandstone fishes, his Lias fossils of Cromarty frith 
*The writer hopes to present to the Geological Society of America, at its 
next meeting, an extended discussion of the Lower Carboniferous series within 
the Appalachian basin. 
