doc. 71 on June 5th, 1888 (with which) 8060 Left Clinton for Dayton 7.35 A.M. reaching there 9.25. Proceeded at once to Soldiers Home. On the railroad track near the home the Richmond beds are cut through. Fossils collected are R. denticata (com) R. caphay (rare) S. eucelatus, S. filiter textus, Streptelasma Piotrema reticulata, I. multituberculata M. quadrata, Psatrodich a pericle- gone Arthrophora subtila. These beds are as flat Richmond, nodular blue overgathering yellowish. Above the eucelatus layer which is about 10' thick there is a poor band of limestone '8" to 20" thick with a central partym's. This bed is -- feet below the Clinton. In the afternoon collected at the Stone quarries. These quarries are call'd Clinton rich! About