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efforts only can discover and secure. There is no good reason to suppose 

 that the same species of animals whose remains are so very abundant 

 in some of the western territories did not once inhabit Ohio, and roam 

 over the wide-spread prairies, once such a marked feature of Ohio's 

 landscapes. 



Until within the last few years no'effort has been made to preserve 

 these remains ; and the discovery of all of them was purely accidental. 

 Cave explorations have been conducted in England by scientific 

 associations with the happiest results. The British Association has 

 expended over $5,000 in "digging" in " Kent's Cave,'' in Devonshire. 

 In 1874, it expended $1,000 in cave explorations alone; an aggregate 

 sum of $8,000 was appropriated for scientific investigations during the 

 year 1874. Why can not Ohio associations accomplish something like 

 that which the British Association is annually doing? 



Notice of the Chemical and Geological Essays of T. Sterry Hunt, and of 

 tJie W07'ds Cambrian and Siluriayi. 



Mr. Hunt has republished, in book-form, various memoirs, whicli he 

 regards as possessing peculiar scientific and historic value, under the 

 title of "Chemical and licological Essays." He seems to be under the 

 impression that his scientific work has not been duly appreciated, and 

 reminds the reader so frequently of his original discoveries, that one 

 is almost led to believe that> a mistake was made in the title of the 

 work, which might more appropriately have been, "Mr. Hunt's own 

 eulogy of himself and his labors." 



Had he been contented, however, Avith expressions of his own views 

 regarding himself and his discoveries, and not attributed to other per- 

 sons views they never entertained, his work would have been more for- 

 tunate, and he would have saved himself from some severe criticisms. 



Mr. James D. Dana (Am. Jour, of Sci. and Arts, Feb., 1875,) 

 has reviewed the work so far as it attributes to him ophiions that he 

 never expressed, and charged Mr. Hunt with a long list of inexcusa- 

 ble misrepresentations. We will quote one paragraph from Mr. Dana*s 

 review : 



"J have never held, and my writings noivhere sustain, the following 

 opinions which Mr. Hunt has attributed to vie and others : 



1. The possibility of converting almost any silicate into any 

 other. 



