The Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology

Abstract

WILL you allow me to express, as an humble worker among the rocks of North Wales, my sense of the high value of the contributions to your pages recently by Prof. Sterry Hunt on the “History of the names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology?” I have long felt—and have not hesitated to express my feeling—that a great wrong was done to Prof. Sedgwick when the North Wales groups of rocks from the Bala Beds to the Lingula Flags—the order of which he was the first to unravel in that difficult region—were unceremoniously engulphed in Siluria.