Friday Aug. 4 '99. Went to Nashville. Prof. Safford had gone to Monteagle, a summer resort in SE part of Bluegrass region. Mr. Killebrew was strangely ignorant of the distribution of the sedimentary series of the state. Phosphatic plates had recently been found in Tennessee at the base of the Black Shale and in the Nashville series, 30-70 feet above the top of the Trenton. I saw specimens at the R.R. exhibit which had been prepared for the Nashville exposition, and which was still open for inspection. Fork evening train to Gallatin. Bledsoe Black Shale [496?] = 691. South Tunnel = 806. Base of Black Shale = 770 ft. Top LS. 712 Gallatin 496. Base of Black Shale, Lafayette. 772 Top LS 772 Baker 545 Base of Black Shale 595 Top of LS = 513. Bogart = 533. White Cluff = 819. Black Shale W of Bogart = 520? Top LS. = 440. Newport = 537 Black Shale base = 650 Top LS = 537? Saturday Aug 5 '99. (7) South Tunnel Station 297 ft above Gallatin. Between 2 Tunnels = 268 ft above "" "" . Lower end 2nd tunnel = 263 ft " " "" . Top of Upper Silurian: 260 ft " " "" . Base of Black Shale} It should be remembered that there where the Waldron bed is exposed the dip is strangely northward. Smith Tunnel. Section 2nd cut south of 2nd tunnel: Mudstones at top at 1st cut. Black Shale. Thickness? Phosphatic at base 4 ft. Waldron bed. Cretic 1 ft. at top 33 1/2 ft. Laurel limestone 11 ft + Azgard shale + claysrock Near top of Waldron shale: Dalmanites tail + Atrypa reticularis. In oritic layer; Atrypa reticularis, Strph. rhombicidal, Multifurcata at base of Laurel, (flower) not rare, rather common at middley Laurel. Orthoceras like & annulation but narrower like amyens.