in a Pullman and will get to Fort Worth at 6.30 A.M. Tomorrow. Fort Worth, Saturday March 22-1919 S[ame] here on time this morning at 6.35, and transferred to the Santa Fe station where one had breakfast. The Driver has a very good road bed, and so the train from my study over the very rough and rocky railroad. It is a fine sunny and cool morning. Now that I have seen the Bend Linn agreed with the author of the series, Cummings, that one is one formation and that it is much better placed at the base of the Pennsylvanian system than to place any part of it into the Mississippian. The guestion that may arise in, is any part of the series at Marble Falls of the age of the Mississippian. The lithology of the Lower Bend is tied out and unbroken with the Marble Falls Li. While this Lower Shell fauna is very meager there is nothing in it of Miss. age. Not only this, they seem to have specific lineage with the Marble Falls. The Marble Falls Li. is unmistakably Pennsylvanian and it does not now seem to me to be so old as even the Morris. There are many Penn. species in it. The Smithonian [hard] fauna is a very peculiar one due