New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-22

wood for fire. Nos. Vi he wafer vas -.
with saline materials ard as az lie ys.s, y, ~
vase TeTres contained sulpbss Of rss.sS'ns 90 nss 1
party were comp~lled 10 submit. 20 H. - y /
effects. Southwark % ward the Plate va 49, t4at
land but little wood Kansas was mnrh Iisa vsss'ss /
ka, ana ue climate was such tha, in gres, ps- /
the Territory y would be difficult Tor NewP'H /
men 10 exit. He knew tha, Nebraska w. YYsd i
and would remain for all ti,so 20 eora 1ssse1 H
curse Of barrehness does Dot apply 20 tho se;ta S
tons Of Kansas. They are carboi iferous.l ~.
Prof AG.ssIz said that tins was very inpo.....
rs as presenting for TIE trs; time the subdyi~a.
tie cretaceous. His friend bad omitted in his .,.--
of early explorers, the Prince Of Neuvied. yhonr
travels collected cretaceous fossils, and seut h,.r-
Europe ard gave for the 6rst inie the iasorn.;'
that there were cre,aceous fossils there scr.,.,.
them were published, snd one species, The mo.s..
rus had not been re-liscovaed Now Il ya,ev;a-
that these cretaceous deposits were Lot one ana -
same but formed q succession OF deposits which -.
tained diffe rent fossils. Nov il Europe the whols
ries OF eretaceous formations had lately been ,oAF
yided into a number of subdivisions, end although :
sgreed comp eiey with the do,rine aid down by a.,
Chairman Prof Danal, that We should not Gonna,
our formations servilely te those Of Europe, vet a.
deposition of the whole cre.aceogs serios in Es,e
and in America were in the maln synchronic. HeE
lieyed that the specimens OF Pro Hall, limi.el !,
they were afforded 10 themselves sufficient evdenr.
that the crcfAceous ucfrNs III NtDf taht cOfrSpOD1a
10 the upper strata of the cretaceOls IN Europe.
had not vet seen single e0tre hsh-scale, only irs,
iDgs of fragments OF scalos bur be was sure tast d
uprer beds were the equivalents OF the English VIII.
chalk.
Mr.. HAIL thea spoke on the geology Of he Rod,
Mountains He said that his knowledge of The Roch
Mountains was derived from specimens brought !,
F,smopt and Emory. All the specimens from q
metamorpbic regions whether from the north ,r sosa
had orc character, and there was large propo-toa
red ielspaibic granite associated with other rocn
Their age he could not determine. Ai(er leaving y
mouth of the Platte nothing but the crtGeious so
tertiary were TO he found uut one reached the hes
waefs OF the rivers towing east yard, the cretsooe
came out again from bene ath the tertiary. lie hane
yet learned of creaceous fossils being found ives.
tie Rocky Mountains. Beg ond this was the carbouz
erous limestone belonging above the coal heerp,
beds. Ii generally rested on me;amorphic rocks
which formed the bases of the mountains. t ere wer
none of the mica aud tacose states so frequent in the
Appalachian. The elevation of the Rocky Mou iisiu
was post-c Teaceous the crctacc0us beds being upfes
with these NE mttamorpbic masses. You continued 70
find outayers OF the upper carbouherous hmesione
through the whole legion TO the West Cr,ssing u.
Rocky Mountains and gong toward Salt Lake Ter
tiary IL aa ain found. The ranges west Of Salt Lik
were all capped with this carb0nlferous limestone Al
the coal deposits of tue southwest were OF tsriry
origin and he strongly suspected ha, that broughtm
Capt. Stausbury was tertiary also. There was pos.
lively tertiary coal in the plateau between the hE
range ard the Salt Lake.
Prof AGAssIz would say in relation to tertiary oI
that the steamers on the Swiss lakes had no otAa
and he knew that tho English engineers employs
on them never complaired. lie remembered that Ii,
rocks which contained 1t were assDs.ated with pau
dina and pauolbis and the Ike SO that there was 0.
doubt that it was tertiary
Mr. EDWARD DASWLs gave a detailed description
= Al Il. nfA ANisannain In Al.
course of il he mentioned limestone 80 bitumnou
that when employedin building tho bitgmcn flied OF
Prof. HAIL said that in the shales of the Hamtss
group there were large accumulations of bitumince
matter. lie said also that he was convinced hr
about three .fourhs of the Missouri and Illinois coi
fields marked out by Gwen woull have 10 DO vipel
off the map, and irs place supplied by Siluran viii
its PeDtamerus, obloneus and other characterslc io~
sils. He bad seen Lower >iurian and Upper slunn
fossils over large areas of Ovens coal heds. Hi
supposed most OF that coal 10 be outleyers resting 10
basins, and having no connection with each other,
Prof AGAssIz said that he might not for years haw
an opportunity of making known the results Of hf
comparison Of fossil fishes The general rosal, N v
gard 10 the coal measures was, that there weIt I've
var d;fferopt Ii. Dc os foho~, Represented Dy 70
very metasaoiphie fragments now on the tabe, a.
Identical in IL character with that which Dr. Nei
s,hss in Southern Illinois, whence Dr. Cassidy hal
sent him number Of fosslls ten or twelve fshs
as many as were generally found in water bssh
fer fishing for one season. This fsh found deu.
ical in its character with that of Bristol In ENGLAND
The two were a. different as the fish fauna Of the Bal
tic and Meoteuano an, or the Mediterranean and tk
| Red Sea.
Tie reception in the evening at the house Of tz
Mayor Of otPioSidence james Y. Smith Esq., was IL
most fully attended, and withal perhaps the Inos
agreeable that has yet taken place. A larger numbe
of Providence ladies were present than at the obeS
though We were sorry to miss some from abroad thai
have made our other evenings so agreeable. Circuu-
ambulation became rather dicult before the reosh'
mentroom drew off the unoccupied but regretted
the lite bsrricades that be met in every direction
while lady at bis side shared his detention. As gen.
orally before, the beverages were limited 10 vster,
lemonade and coffee, and there were few who wouk
not have felt that exciting decoctions were w.
called for and out of place. Per eontra-of the ss
ables there appeared to be no end 10 the supply sod
for long time, to the demand.