Lesley.] HO'^ [November 6. 



worthy geologist, Mr- Dalsen. These 'gentlemen reduced my 

 large sheet maps to one on a very small scale, which was some 

 years afterwards published as part of the Atlas of the Final 

 Report. 



The sheets of the great map have never seen the light. They 

 are probabh' in Mr. Rogers' portfolios. He once informed me 

 that he considered them the only perquisite attached to his office 

 as chief of the survey. The loss is perhaps now irreparable. 

 They became private property by a subsequent act of Legisla- 

 ture. For the act of 1851 seemed to bring the yjublication of the 

 Final Report no nearer to a pass than ever. And it was not 

 until an arrangement was made, by which Mr. Rogers should 

 obtain personal propriety of all the records, maps, pictures, and 

 characteristic fossils of the survey', for the consideration of one 

 thousand copies delivered to the Legislature, that the book ap- 

 peared. And this was not until 1859, when the publication was 

 made bj^ a firm in Edinburgh. 



Mr. Foulke's interest in the Survey was of a purely scientific 

 and philanthropic character. In Februaiy, 1851, he wrote to Mr. 

 G. H. Hart, a member of the House : " You are aware that I 

 have no connection with nor interest in such a subject, except 

 what is common to all my fellow citizens — that in mj^ journe^^s 

 through many of our counties (probably more than two-thirds 

 of them), and in conversation with experienced persons, and in 

 my reading of essays and reports of scientific men and other 

 ways, I have received illustrations more numerous than those 

 to which other citizens have general access ; and that the convic- 

 tions thus fastened upon me are the reasons for 1113' intervention 

 in this business." He wrote to Mr. Rogers, the same month : 

 " It is proper to say to 3'ou that any part which I take respect- 

 ing the publication of the final report upon the geology of Penn- 

 sylvania is prompted exclusively by my opinion of the value of 

 that report ; b}' a regard to the position occupied bj" the State 

 government, and b\^ a sense of justice in relation to yourself. 

 It will therefore be unnecessary to include me in any pecuniar}^ 

 arrangement which it may appear to 3'ou expedient to make for 

 the purpose of forwarding the publication." 



And it was in this spirit that all his acts having reference to 

 public affairs were performed. 



