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part in the matter, either in the papers read or the fossils ex- 

 hibited. But of this I never complained, nor had I deemed 

 it of sufficient importance to mention, although it would be 

 as charitable to suppose one could give a history of the geo- 

 logical discoveries at the Black Hills and inadvertently omit 

 the name of Dr. Hayden, as to suppose there was no design 

 in omitting my name from this history of the Permian dis- 

 coveries in the West. 



And yet Dr. Hayden says : " At the same time, Meek and 

 Hayden manifest no desire to ignore the connection of 

 Mr. Hawn and Prof. Swallow with the Permian discovery. 

 They have the right to expect their own agency in the mat- 

 ter to be acknowledged, especially in an official report." 

 (Am. Jour., July, 1867, p. 39.) 



But he had ignored my agency in it, when, to do it, he was 

 compelled to mar the truth of history, and that, too, in an 

 "Official Report." On the contrary, when I wrote the his- 

 tory of the discovery, I gave Messrs. Meek and Hayden all 

 they or their friends claimed, and when I have occasion to 

 refer to the matter, or when I write up the history for my de- 

 tailed report, it shall be my pleasure to do them and all others 

 full justice. 



Hence all complaintain this regard seem to come with ex- 

 ceedingly bad grace from Dr. Hayden. 



I gave no history of the discovery whatever, and yet Dr. 

 Hayden complains that I did not mention his name and Mr. 

 Meek's. And yet, he nine years before, gave a full history of 

 the matter, and designedly left out one of the principal actors; 

 and yet no one but himself and Mr. Meek has thought the 

 matter of sufficient importance to refer to it. 



3d. As to the discovery of Permian Rocks in the West, 

 the question whether these rocks do really exist, was one of 

 primary importance to the scientific world; but it matters 

 little whether Mr. Meek, or somebody else, made and pub- 

 lished that discovery first. And yet, to this unimportant part of 

 the subject Dr. Hayden devoted two full pages of the Amer- 

 ican Journal of July last, and Messrs. Meek and Hayden, 

 either jointly or singly, have consumed, on this subject, large 

 portions of several papers in various scientific publications* 

 during the last ten years. 



At first, the object seemed to be to prove that Mr. Meek 

 was entitled to the sole honor of discovery, but afterward, to 

 show that Messrs. Meek and Hayden were joint wearers of 

 this honor and that of the first announcement also. 



After I had made the discovery and sent a notice of the 



*See Trans. Albany Institute, vol. 4; Trans. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

 1858, p. 144; Trans. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1858, p. 9; American Journal, 

 July, 1867, p. 38. 



