Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-01-27
Valuable Report on Vermont
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The Burlington Free Press of January
10, contains editorially the following
from the report of Prof. G. H. Perkins,
state geoogist, which contains a very
important paper, "The Geology of Ad-
Olson County" by Prof. H. M. Seely
of Middlebury, professor emeritus of
Middlebury college:
The Seventh Biennial report of Pro-
fessor G.. H. Perkins, State geologist
has just been issued from the press.
The report makes a goodly volume of
800 pages and is finely Illustrated by
over seventy excellent plates and
numerous text features. The contents
of the report add to Vermont geology
very considerable amount of perman-
emily valuable material, such as must
always be of service to anyone who is
looking up the geology of Vermont.
Besides that portion of the work fur
nished by the State geologist there is
much which he has been able to secure,
often without cost, from eminent
biologists, who have generously placed
in his hands the results of their
researches.
The volume opens with full account
of the contents of the State cabinet at
Montpelier. The origin and history of
these collections have never been pub
lished except in fragmentry fashion and
the geologist has felt for some years
| it is important that what is to
be found there be recorded as full
| ly as possible so that the ac-
logue of the specimens and as a guide
= ha OF
lier. Moreover, as it has long been the
plan of the curator to exhibit in the
cabinet the natural history of Vermont
and as this plan has been quite success
fully carried out, the lists given show
pretty well what is found in the State.
Had it been possible more of the finer
specimens would have been illustrated
as few have been. The article con-
tains a few very good plates of the In
dian relics.
DR.. T. N. Dale of the U. S. Geological
Survey has carefully examined the
granite beds and quarries in the State
and his report on the "Granites of Ver-
mont" will be found very valuable as
it is by far the most complete and ac-
curate discussion of the subject that
1 has been made.
The second article is a paper by Pro-
fessor c.. H. Hitchcock, recently of
Dartmouth, on some interesting points
in the Surface Geology of the Cham
plain Basin" This paper will be of es-
pecial interest to students of the ply
steal geography of this region.
! Following this is a paper by DR.. Ray
mond of the Canadian Survey with nu-
merous plates, on the 'Trilobites of the
Champlain Valley" This article, though
necessarily of less popular interest than
some of the others, has great scientific
value. 1t describes and figures many
new forms of the fossil animals of which
it treats most of which were found by
the biologists in the famous "Edmunds
Layer" on Isle La Motto.
The geology of the immediate vicinity
of Burlington is continued in the paper
by the geologist on the Geology of the
Burlington Quadrangle, the towns
of Burlington, Shelburne, Charlotte,
Hinesburg, Williston being considered.
A most important paper into which
are condensed the geological researches
of lifetime is 1.-The Geology of Addison
County," By Professor Seely of Mid
dlebury. Probably no portion of Yer
mont has been so carefully studied as
has the area of Addison county by pro-
fessor Seely and those associated with
him. Each town in the county is more
or less fully taken up and its main geo.
logical features noted. Maps, plans,
text figures and excellent plates supply
fairly complete illustration to the text.
The very remarkable profusion of fossil
forms that were formerly found in Fort
Cassin is well described and figured.
Asbestos is found in a very few To-
calties in the United States and one of
the best is that of Belvidere Mountain.
The asbestos region of Eden and Lowell
has been exhaustively Investigated by
Professor Richardson of Syracuse Uni
versity and his report will be found of
much value.
The report closes with statement of