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PALEONTOLOGICAL GEOLOGY 
Lilley and Devonic Fishes. This note records the death of Al¬ 
bert Tell Lilley, a local collector of Le Roy, Bradford County, 
Pennsylvania, who did much in the course of a long life to make 
known the fossil fishes of the Chemung and Catskill rocks of his 
native state. His demise occurred at Sayre, Pennsylvania, on 
February 12, 1922, at the ripe age of 84 years. 
When studying the Devonic sections of northen Pennsylvania 
twenty-odd years ago the writer met Mr. Lilley and visited with 
him the outcrops where the latter had found many of the types 
of the Bradford County fishes described by Professor Newberry 
in Monograph 16, U. S. G. S. One of these forms Professor 
Newberry named in his honour Sphenophorus lilleyi. 
Lilley had eyes to see and imagination to restore the life rep¬ 
resented by the fossils abounding in his native hills and they 
meant as much to his life and happiness as did the birds of 
Selborne to Gilbert White. Lilley was not satisfied with bringing 
the Devonic fossils of Bradford County to the notice of paleon¬ 
tologists alone, but took pains to initiate the boys and girls of his 
home town into the mysteries of the rocks. He was for many 
years a school teacher, and in the later years of his life he was 
connected with the schools of his township in other capacities. 
In a letter received from him just after .last Christmas he tells 
of his success in stimulating the interest of boys in school work 
by occasional talks on geology. His work as a stone-mason dur¬ 
ing the summer seasons, between school sessions, gave him, as it 
did Hugh Miller, rare opportunities to discover and collect the 
fossil fishes of the Devonic rocks of his district. Many of his 
fossils are deposited in the collections of the Bradford County 
Historical Society. 
Lilley’s home was located on the edge of a post-Glacial gorge 
exposing one of the finest sections of the Chemung rocks in north¬ 
ern Pennsylvania. In this fact we have, perhaps, an example of 
an environmental control of the development of a local collector. 
This section was first brought to the notice of geologists by Mr. 
Lilley in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 
for 1886. Lilley continued to collect from this and other sections 
nearby up to the very last year of his life. A letter sent the writer 
shortly before his death listed the species which in recent years he 
had added to the fauna known from the Gulf Brook gorge. After 
