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from seeking society, but lie enjoyed it when it came in his way, was a 

 good listener, observant, and with a keen sense for the humorous side of 

 things. He was very accessible, and ever ready to lend aid from the stores 

 of his knowledge, but in particular did he delight to instruct and bring for- 

 ward his younger friends. 



I am happj^ to close this notice by speaking of the deep religious faith of 

 this dear friend. Before reaching manhood, he consecrated his life to the 

 ser^ace of God, through Christ, and never afterwards wavered in his trust. 

 His belief was to him a source of perennial joy, and he did not fail in the 

 duty of trying to bring others to share in the faith which was the life of 

 his life. No stress of labor, no ordinary worldly interests, checked the 

 spiritual meditations of this earnest man. Since his death there have come 

 to light, before kept secret from his own family, volumes covering a period 

 of nearly fifty j-ears, embodying mainly his religious thoughts, and laying 

 bare his soul. I confess that it is with a certain awe that I have read these 

 utterances, voiced as it were from the grave. Here the whole man is seen, 

 and the completeness of his character made clear. 



Mr. DuBois was able to fulfill his official duties until within a few months 

 of his death. He was fully conscious of his approaching end, preserving 

 his intelligence to the last, and the fiiith which had comforted him in this 

 life supported him at its close. He left surviving him a widow, two sons, 

 and one daughter, who have in the memory of his well-spent life a blessed 

 inheritance. 



Note on the Laramie Group in the vicinity of B'lton, New Mexico. By John 

 J. Stevenson, Professor of Geology in the University of the City of New 

 York. 



(Bead before the American Philosophical Society, Beeemher 2, 1881. ) 



Raton, New Mexico, is an important station on the Atchison, Topeka 

 and Santa Fe Railroad, at about five miles south from the Colorado line. 

 It stands on the Canadian plain immediately south from the basalt-capped 

 Raton plateau (the Cliicorica mesa of Hayden's map of Colorado), and at 

 the foot of the Laramie bluff, which forms the western boundary of the 

 plain. The canon of Willow creek, followed by the railroad from the Colo- 

 rado line, opens at little more than a mile north from Raton. Dillon's 

 canon and that of the Upper Canadian open together at barely two miles 

 south-west from the station, whfle petty canons notch the face of the bluff 

 at irregular intervals. 



The lower beds of the Laramie group are fiiirly well shown at many 

 places along the bluff as well as near the mouths of the larger canons. 

 During 1881, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company made 

 extensive examinations of the Dillon coal bed, coal bed A of the writer's 

 generalized section, which exhibit the structure of the bed far better than 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XX. 111. N. PRINTED MARCH 7, 1882. 



