"Granitoria, August 14, 1912 Wednesday. Williams and I spent the day at the Clay Cliffs to study the lower beds, the so-called "Eden Beds". The Clay Cliff is probably very 200 feet high with at least 12 feet more of Richmond above, it but tack upon the level of the land. The lower 50 feet or so and it may be 70 feet have no Richmond fossils. Our collecting of the day was in the lower 30 feet of these lower beds of the Clay Cliff which we exposed at about 1/4 mile south of the cliff. We did not see a single diagnostic fossil of the Richmond in these lower 30 feet other than Modisopsis concentrica and M. kalediformis. These beds are particularly common in hiraldoi and especially in BeS- songchia radiata. The only huckshards that are common are Rafirostrum squamula and a large Plec. delicatus. Rarer forms are Heterotilla occidentalis, Dal, nearest to multicosta, and probably Olectrithus phictella. These 30 feet are blue shales with occas- ional beds of ayillaceros limesto that are