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fish caught in the lakes that will bear salting." In the paper he described as 

 new, the Indiana species, and mentions with full notes its nearest relatives, 

 one of which is the well known "white fish" or lake herring of the markets. 



The second paper is a "Synopsis of the Genera of Fishes to be looked for 

 in Indiana." This includes a key to 81 genera and is followed by a list of 

 88 species, with notes on distribution, common names, etc. 



The final paper of the 1874 report is entitled "A Partial List of the Flora 

 of Jefiferson County, Indiana," by John M. Coulter of Hanover College, in 

 which he lists with full notes 721 species belonging to 367 genera. This also 

 was one of the author's first ventures, and we have thus, side by side, in this 

 Sixth Report of Cox, the initial efforts of two of the country's greatest 

 scientists in their respective lines. 



Seventh Report of Cox. 



In the preface to his Seventh Report, published in 1876, Cox complains 

 of the meagreness of the appropriation allotted for State Printing, stating 

 that "it has been found impossible to publish more than a part of the county 

 geological maps and the numerous horizontal sections that have been pre- 

 pared to show the continuity of the seams of coal and associated beds of 

 shales, sandstones and limestones. These sections are of great importance 

 to present the geology in a clear and comprehensive manner. It is hoped, 

 therefore, that the legislature will make a special and adequate appropriation 

 to enable the geologists hereafter not only to publish what maps and sections 

 are needed to make comprehensive the dynamical geology of the various 

 counties, but also to cover the necessary expenses of engraving and publishing 

 plates containing figures of the characteristic fossils of the various geological 

 formations as this will render the report more useful to students in the uni- 

 versities, colleges and high schools of Indiana." 



The legislature failed to comply with his request, and his next report was 

 not printed until 1879. This was one of the causes which led up to his quitting 

 the Survey in the latter year. The first 77 pages of his Seventh Report were 

 devoted to a discussion of the combustible properties and analyses of Indiana 

 coals. Next comes reports on the surveys of Vigo* and Huntington Counties 

 by Cox himself. 



Of the Niagara limestone near Huntington he says: "The great disorder 

 of the strata, mainly due to false bedding or peculiar arrangement of the 

 material constituting the present rocks, has led many to infer that this irregu- 

 larity wa,s due to earthquake or volcanic action. This is the more deceptive 



*In the report on Vigo County Cox states that Col. Francis Vigo, in honor of whom 

 Vigo County was named, had moved from St. Louis to Vincennes, prior to the capture 

 of the latter place bv George Rogers Clarke, that he conveyed to that officer the in- 

 formation which enabled liim to capture the post, and advanced money toifeed and 

 clothe liis suffering army. This money was not recovered imtil after Vigo's death, 

 but the latter left a clause in this will that in event of its recovery $.500 "should be 

 given to the county wliich had honored him by adopting his name, to be expended in 

 buying a bell for its courthouse." 



