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nic School, where he graduated in 1835. He subsequently con- 

 ducted a school in Petersburg, Va., where he lived when early 

 in 1844 he was ai)})()inted State Geologist of South Carolina. 

 In 1847 he resigned this latter position and was elected Profes- 

 sor of Geology, Mineralogy and Agricultural Chemistry in the 

 University of Alabama. From 1848 to 1854 he acted as State 

 Geologist in addition to his duties at the Universitv; 1854 and 

 1855 he gave all of his time to the survey, and afterwards 

 returned to his professorship at the University, which he held 

 until the date of his death. In addition to his two Reports on 

 the Geology of South Carolina (1844 and 1848) he published 

 two Biennial Reports on the Geology of Alabama (1850 and 

 1858) and several papers on geological subjects. At the time of 

 his death, in connection with Professor F. S. Holmes, he had in 

 hand the publication of a " splendid work on the Fossils of 

 South Carolina, which has not been surpassed in the country fur 

 the beauty of its ])ala?ont()logical illustrations. Geological 

 science is greatly indebted to Professor Tuomey^s zeal and 

 fidelity.'"^ 



Professor Tuomey was a member of the Boston Society of 

 Katunil History and the Atnerican Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Oscar Montgomery Lieber.'f — Pages 103-13, above. He was 

 born in Boston, Mass., September 8, 1830; was educated in 

 Boston, at the South Carolina College — where his father, Francis 

 Lieber, was a member of the faculty— and at the Universities of 

 Berlin and Gottingen (1847-'48). In 1851 he was elected 

 Assistant Professor of Geology in the University of Mississippi, 

 his duties being confined to the work of making a geological 

 survey, and extending over but seven months, when he resigned. 

 In 1854-'55 he was Assistant Geologist on the Alabama survey^ 

 under Tuomey. In December, 1855, he was elected by the 

 I^egislature of South Carolina Geological, Mineralogical and 

 Agricultural Surveyor of the State, which position he held lor 



*Am. Jour. Sci., XXIII, 1857, p. 448. 



t.\ more elaborate sketch of Liel>er will be pubMshed in a future number of this Jour- 

 nal. 



