around. Unscratched the material is a light fine firm material. It crumbles down into a gelatinous soft mud with the food fire. What we collected may all come from a gneiss just below this some ten or foot beneath the limestone. The [for purposes only] same kind of material occurs below I looked at it but found the fossils too much scratched to be of value. It seemed to me to have the same kind as above. Zephtemia, Stephensite and Phaeopsis occur together in a gneiss just they are the base of the whole gneiss that we collected all our stuff in. Rain stopped on collecting and we hurried away [?] to get dinner in the country roads. Had lunch at 3:30 at Scranton on the railway, this still 12 miles to Ardmore. Most of the way in to Ardmore the upended strata are covered by either Permian red beds or Permian residated clay or Carboniferous residated conglomerate. Once in a while one sees the tilted strata of the Pennsylvania. We got to the hotel at Ardmore just in time (7 p.m.) to avoid a heavy rain with thunder and lightning. It rained more during the evening. Near Osceola near Red River in Jefferson Co. the Empire has a core down more than 3000 feet. This is the Archweld