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last word as champion of the law of Evolution. He soon re- 
turned to Eastbourne. Early in the winter he contracted the 
grippe, which passed into pneumonia. He rallied once or twice 
and his last effort to complete a reply to Balfour’s “ Foundations 
of Belief” hastened his death, which came upon June 29th, at 
the age of seventy. 
I have endeavored to show in how many ways Huxley was a 
model for us of the younger generation. In the central hall of 
the British Museum of Natural History sits in marble the life 
size figure of Charles Darwin; upon his right will soon be placed 
a beautiful statue of Richard Owen, and I know that there are 
many who will enjoy taking some share in the movement to com- 
plete this group with the noble figure of Thomas Henry Huxley. 
STATED MEETING. 
November 15th, 1895. 
The Academy met with Vice-President STEVENSON in the Chair; 
about twenty-one persons present. 
There being no regular business, the Section in Geology and 
Mineralogy immediately organized. 
The first paper was read by Prof. J. J. Stevenson. 
NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF INDIAN TERRITORY. 
By Joun J. STEVENSON. 
During a visit to Indian Territory in July of 1895 the writer 
found opportunity to make some observations tending to unite 
the work done by Dr. H. M. Chance and Prof. R. T. Hill in that 
Territory, with that done in Arkansas by Mr. Arthur Winslow, 
Prof. Hill and Mr. Griswold,* as well as to suggest relation- 
ships between the Carboniferous of the Territory and Texas. 
* Rk. T. Hill, Ann. Rep. Geol. Sury. of Arkansas for 1888, Vol. II, pp. 11, et. seq. (1888). 
H. M. Chance, Geology of the Choctaw coalfield, Trans. Amer. Inst. M’ng. Eng’rs,, 
Vol. VIII. (1890). 
A. Winslow, The geotectonic and physiographic geology of western Arkansas, Bull. 
Geol Soc. Amer., Vol. II., pp. 225 et. seq. (1891). 
R. T. Hill, Notes on a reconnaissance of the Ouachita mountain system in Indian 
territory, A. J.S., Vol. XLII., pp. 111, et. seq. (1891). 
L. 8. Griswold, Ann. Rep. Geol. Sury. of Arkansas for 1890, Vol. III., pp. 196 et. seq. 
(1892). 
