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Bulletin of the Cornell University (Science).
Bulletin of the Cornell University - Science Author:Cornell University Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: make a careful survey of the Carboniferous rocks between the falls and Itaitiiba. My assistants at the latter place met with extremely good luck in collecting; a... more »nd Messrs. Smith and Stanton had the good fortune to find a very important locality on a little creek called the Igarape de Bomjardim, where limestone beds crowded with silicified shells occur. After a short stay at Itaitiiba, spent in collecting fossils, we returned to Para, where I gave up the steamer and divided up my party. Prof. Prentiss and Mr. Powers went south to Bahia ; Mr. Derby, accompanied by Mr. Wilmot, examined various parts of the coast between the Amazonas and Pernam- buco, making, especially in the vicinity of the latter city, an important collection of Cretaceous fossils. Mr. Barnard I commissioned to examine the Indian burial mound of Pa- coval, on the Island of Marajo, to which my attention had been called by my friend, Sr. Ferreira Penna, a gentleman, who, since that time, has aided me in many important ways. Mr. Barnard obtained a small, but interesting collection of pottery which I have described in the American Naturalist. On my way down the Amazonas, I had left Messrs. Com- stock, Smith and Stanton at Monte Alegre to await my arrival from Para, when I proposed to explore the Serra of Erer6. I spent a month at the village of the same name, carefully going over the vicinity on foot, but as I have recently published in detail the results of my visit, I do not need to recapitulate them here. Suffice it to say that I did not find a trace of glacial action, the Serra of Erer6 appearing to be composed of rocks of Palaeozoic age, while the plain to the north was determined, by the discovery of numerous fossils, to be of Devonian age. My time was exhausted at Erere, and I was obliged to return home, ...« less