Lesley.] 500 [November 6. 



emy, May 5, 1851, giving all due credit and respect to so distin- 

 guished an opponent, but reiterating and re-enforcing his argu- 

 ments, and rebutting the charges made against himself. Soon 

 after the appearance of the notice in the Proceedings of the 

 Academy, Mr. Davies, a Scottish clergyman, addressed a letter 

 to Mr. Foulke, expressing hearty concurrence with his view of 

 the value of Mr. Miller's reasoning. 



Another episode in Mr. Foulke's life was produced by the tan- 

 talizing circumstances connected with the suspension of the Re- 

 ports of the Geological Survey of Pennsjdvania. The field work, 

 which had occupied seven j'^ears, ceasing in the fall of 1840, the 

 materials for illustrating the final Report were placed by Pro- 

 fessor Rogers in my hands; and in 1842 I had completed the 

 State Map, the Geological Sections across the State, and drawn 

 or redrawn for the wood-cutter all the diagrams which afterwards 

 were published in the two quarto volumes of the Final Report. 

 Then my connection with the survey ceased. Mr. Rogers moved 

 his residence to Boston. There was a dead-lock between him 

 and the State authorities at Harrisburg. They held the treasury 

 and he kept the manuscripts. 



At the beginning of the winter of 1846, '4*7, he wrote to me to 

 come to him in Boston. A demand for the MSS. had been made 

 which he could not resist, and he wished me to duplicate the 

 whole, which I did: the Map of the State, the long sections, and 

 all the illustrations of the text, with parts of the text itself. This 

 copy was sent to Harrisburg. There it lay, without finding an 

 editor, until the winter of 1850, '51, forgotten or despised. Some 

 said it was useless ; others, that it would be used too well by de- 

 signing men. Some accused it of tedious verbiage ; others, of 

 culpable incompleteness. Some alleged that the surface of Penn- 

 s^dvania was still too unsettled to make a truthful survey pos- 

 sible ; others, that the progress of mining and railroad survej-ing 

 had left the assertions of the report behind them among dis- 

 l^roved and exploded things. There were hardly a dozen men 

 in the whole Commonwealth who knew either the character of 

 the Report or the actual value of the Surve3^ Among these Mr. 

 Foulke occupied perhaps the most prominent position ; and he 

 it was who finally succeeded in dragging up the buried manu- 

 script into public notice, and in stimulating sutflciently public 

 opinion in its favor to get an act passed for its publication. The 



