158 The American Geologist. September, 1905. 
the Texan and Kansan formations probably does not differ 
markedly from that of other geologists and that it leaves the 
upper Paleozoic deposits of Kansas in the Permian. 
The upper Paleozoic fauna of Kansas shows a closer 
relationship with the Permian of Russia than does that of 
the Capitan limestone as listed by Dr. Girty, which he pro- 
visionally correlates with the Permian of the Salt Range of 
India, the Carnic Alps and especially of Palermo, Sicily.* 
Consequently his statement that 
"If the Capitan fauna is Permian, then certainly that of Kansas 
is not,"t 
does not follow at all. 
My original paper on "The Classification of the upper 
Paleozoic rocks of central Kansas" was published in iSo^.t 
Additional field work and study of the Cottonwood Falls 
quadrangle rendered it advisable, in compliance with the 
custom of the United States geological survey to designate 
each lithologic terrane capable of representation on the topo- 
graphic map as a formation, to subdivide three of the units 
which were described as formations in that article. The 
limits of part of the new formations were clearly indicated 
in the original paper but, in general, they were not given 
geographical names. Dr. J. W. Beede was associated with 
the writer in this later work and during the latter part of 
December, 1901, Dr. Beede spent some days with him in 
Columbus. At that time we fully discussed the classifica- 
tion for the formations of the Cottonwood Falls folio, 
selected the names for the new formations and prepared 
their preliminary description. The complete list of forma- 
tion names for the Cottonwood Falls folio was submitted 
to the U. S.. geological survey on March 7, 1902 and in- 
cluded the following six which were listed as "Prosser and 
Beede, new"; Elmdale formation, Neva limestone, Eskridge 
shales, Garrison formation, Matfield shales and Doyle shales. 
The above named terms were considered by the Committee 
on Geologic Names, March 29, 1902 and according to its 
chairman, Mr. Bailey Willis they "were recommended for 
approval without exception." The list was returned to me 
* Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. vii, p. 22. 
t Ibid., p. 25. 
1 Jour. Geo-1., vol. iii, p. 682, and p. 764. 
