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merit’s promotion. Not all geologists may think so, or feel just 
that way, but that we are all sold cheap is really no good reason 
why we should in turn be licensed to sell out the public. What 
does the public know about our glorious ambitions to be genuine 
geologists, or our right to a successful enterprise after that glory 
has faded, or been bleached out of us? Why not rather turn our 
attention to the schools through which we entered for a career? 
The Honorable W. J. Bryan may possibly be right about some 
of the professors, if not about the evolution theories themselves. 
The evolution of a geologist may be a good subject for careful 
thought — before Bryan gets to it. 
If the State is to limit the geologist’s opportunities by its “blue 
sky” laws in a commercial w^ay it should also clearly revise the 
teaching of geologists to less practical and more glorious ways, for 
the future. For, if “no one trusts a rock-hound” who then should 
care to become a “pebble-pup?” 
As “geologic expert,” serving a State Securities Commission 
for the last five years, I have been convinced that geologists are 
getting, and are to get for a while yet, ten per cent, or perhaps a 
little more, of the good work that we would have been getting if 
the business man trusted us fully and the public believed in our 
glory. We have been very brilliantly led by ethically blind men 
into what is not much better than a ditch. 
F. W. Sardeson 
Devonic Outliers on the Missouri Highlands, Another record of 
remnantal Paleozoics on the top of the Ozark Uplift is that of a 
large Devonic outlier near Rolla, in Phelps County, Missouri. 
The importance of the Bridges and Charles discoveries ^ lies in the 
circumstance that these workers are put into possession of so large 
a variety of fossils, no less than forty species being satifactorily 
identified. 
In making the faunal comparisons the latter probably should not 
be made solely with the forms occurring in the Devonic limestones * 
of the east, the nearest outcrops of which are no nearer than 100 
miles distant, but also with those of the better known Devonic 
limestones to the north, the exposures of which are only forty to 
fifty miles away. Close inspection will doubtless disclose the fact 
1 Journal of Geology, Vol. XXX, p. 450, 1922. 
