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Excerpt from On the Use of the Name Taconic It is a creed among geologists, a creed which has just received a new sanction and acknowledgment at the meeting of the Com mission for the uniformity of nomenclature of the International Geological Congress at Geneva, in August last, that 110 system of stratified rocks is accepted as independent and separate, unless it contain a special fauna. Sedgwick did not find a single fossil in the lower part, of what he called, in 1835, the Cambrian sys =tem, and he had 110 right to include it in the Cambrian. We have there two systems of strata as well marked and separated as any of the different systems in existence in our classifications. The Taconic system is the only Terrain 01° division of the sec ond order that can be claimed by American geologists in the gen eral classification of the strata of the world; and to surrender it it into the hands of the English is to give up the only claim we have to be recognized as original discoverers. Certainly, we shall preserve also all the classifications of the divisions of the third (divisions), fourth groups) and fifth (beds), orders special to' America; and on that account thereis not the smallest danger to be apprehended of their being suppressed or superseded by European geologists. But it is a patriotic duty for as Americans to preserve and keep religiously, the fact that here, among the mountain °anges which separate the Hudson river and Lake Champlain from the Connecticut river and the Green mountains, the great system, containing the Primordial fauna, was first discovered, pointed out and named. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare ca