New information concerning the ancestry of the later Tertiary horses, Calippus, Protohippus (in the original sense), Hipparion, Neohipparion, and Nannippus, has been obtained from a restudy of the various mammalian farmas of the Coastal Plain in Texas, based in the main on the extensive collections of the Bureau of Economic Geology, The Universi

A recently discovered buried hill, at least 77 feet high, is composed of strata of the Wilcox group (lower Eocene) and covered on its flanks by cross-bedded sands of the lower Carrizo and at the top by level-bedded shales and silts of the upper Carrizo formation.