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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
of the Tertiary formations of the Atlantic and Gulf 
States. The map of Florida is based upon Professor 
Smith’s earlier map. The Vicksburg is mapped as reach¬ 
ing to Lake Okeechobee and the borders of the Ever¬ 
glades, the error of regarding the Tampa Limestone as 
identical with the Vicksburg not having yet been cor¬ 
rected. In the second paper of this year (82), Heilprin 
describes some new foraminifera from the nummulitic 
formation of Florida. 
Papers by Smith (188) and by Johnson (104), in 1885, 
record a much greater extent of Miocene deposits over the 
peninsula of Florida than has been previously supposed. 
In 1887 Heilprin s exploration of the west coast of 
Florida and the Okeechobee Wilderness appeared (92). 
This publication contains a narrative of a journey along 
the west coast of Florida from Cedar Keys to the Caloosa- 
hatchee River, and thence to Lake Okeechobee, made by 
Mr. Heilprin, in company with Mr. Joseph Wilcox, in the 
winter of 1885-’86. A statement of the geological results 
of this expedition was contained in an advance publi¬ 
cation which appeared in 1886 (91). Heilprin points out 
the fact that with regard to the supposed coral origin, 
the evidence is very strong, that the structure of the 
peninsula even beyond Lake Okeechobee is of organic 
and inorganic material accumulated in the normal way. 
He also calls attention to the uninterrupted section from 
the Oligocene to the present, the gradual change in the 
Invertebrate life and to the evidence of the gradual eleva¬ 
tion of the peninsula. 
Dr. J. Kost published in 1887 a “First Report of the 
Geological Survey of Florida”. This paper derives an 
added interest from the fact that it was prepared under 
the authority of the State. Dr. Kost was appointed State 
Geologist of Florida by Governor Perry in 1886, with the 
expectation that a continuance of the Geological Survey 
would be provided for by the Legislative Assembly of the 
following year. This expectation, however, was not real, 
ized. Dr. Kost’s report contains observations on the 
