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Silliman's J. vol. 28 p 299. In Hugo's travels in the Alps shews that fossils are not abundant excepting where one formation passes into another. If found in homogenous strata excepting terebratulites & a few others. They occur either at the top or bottom. Says it is a law that the number of organic remains is in inverse relation to the thickness of the strata. Where fossils do occur in a thick bed, the

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individuals are smaller. If this true, most important. How does it bear on Philip's Statement on few shells in the older formations. Think over subsidence during accumulation.

Do not think strata in [very] Deep-water Phillips has alluded [lately] to D'Archiac's law of condensed formation abounding with fossils as 200 ft in strata being whole Siluria

 

[C. U. Shepard. 1835. Notice of the "Travels of a naturalist in the Alps," etc. American journal of science and art, 28: 296-303.]