199 



Ruschenberger.] xmi [Nov. 6, 



his domicile to Edinburgh, where the printing of the report and 

 the engravings to illustrate it were executed. This great work 

 was published according to contract, bearing the imprint of J. 

 B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1858. 



It brought him a harvest of approbation from the scientific 

 community, but no other profit. The cost of the publication 

 exceeded the sum stipulated for it by several thousand dollars. 

 The results of assiduous labor during eighteen years, often em- 

 barrassed by anxiety in surmounting difficulties, are admirably 

 presented in this magnificent report. 



It consists of two quarto volumes, which together contain 

 1682 pages, illustrated by 778 intercalated cuts, 69 plates and 18 

 folded sheets of sections, all executed in the best style of that 

 time. A summary history of the survey, and the names of all 

 the assistants employed in it from beginning to end, are given in 

 the preface, with praise of most of them and grateful mention 

 of assistance in the work from his brother William. 



The chief of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 

 Professor J. P. Lesley, a qualified judge, commends the work 

 generally, a summary of the contents of which he gives, and 

 says : " But let any one read the special memoirs with which 

 he closes the second volume of his final report, and there can be 

 no sentiment but one of admiration for the breadth of his views 

 and the clearness, force and elegance of his delineations. No 

 geological paper has ever appeared excelling in ever}' good quality 

 his memoir on coal."* 



While resident in Edinburgh the University of Dublin con- 

 ferred upon him, in 1857, the honorary degree of Doctor of 

 Laws ; he was elected member of the Geological Societ}' of Lon- 

 don, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; became 

 one of the conductors of the Edinburgh New Philosophical 

 Journal, and joined Sir William and A. K. Johnston in the pub- 

 lication of maps of physical geography and geology. In 1858 

 he was appointed Regius Professor of Natural History in the 

 University of Glasgow. Then he transferred his residence to 

 Shawlands, a suburb of that city. During the last two years of 



* Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1874-5-G. Historical Sketch of 

 Geological Explorations in Pennsylvania and other states. By J. I'. Lesley. 

 Published by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey. 

 Harrisburg, 1S7(J. 



