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Easter Vacation Trip.
To Washington.
April 1908.
Left New Haven on Clinton Express
at 1 P.M. arrived at Washington 9.45-
Round trip ticket $14.-
Stopped at Raleigh Hotel.
Wednesday April 15-1908.
Called at the U.S. N.M. about 9.30 and saw
Ulrich and Bassler.
Which states that the Clinton at Clinton N.Y.
contains the Rochester tertiaries and some of its
fauna. These Rochester fossils consist of about 5
species of Dictyomenid reptiles and Bryozoa. Of
these two is one bivalviate form and several of the
smaller ramose forms of the Tremataspis type. Nothing
otherwise. The entire question resolves itself here, are
these western species or are from the east (Atlantic) only
with the other Guadalupe and Gulf fauna.
The term Rockwood is to be defined because it is