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ment service. In that year lie resumed work in pure science as 

 assistant on the Illinois State Geological Survey. On the reor- 

 ganization of the Missouri State Geological Survey he was appointed 

 assistant, and in 1873, as State geologist, took entire charge. The 

 survey was discontinued in 1875. Mr. Broadhead has continued to 

 contribute to geological science since that time as juror in exposi- 

 tions, expert in Government service, and otherwise. In 1887 he was 

 appointed to the chair of mineralogy and geology at the State Uni- 

 versity at Columbia, S. C, which he still holds. 



After the fire and Shumard's death, it is no wonder that signs 

 of discouragement showed themselves; no wonder that in his annual 

 address the fifteenth Dr. Engelmann mourned the condition of 

 affairs. The membership of the society was reduced. " Some are 

 dead, others have removed from here, and few remain to help the 

 work, and this is the greatest difficulty we labor under; scarcely any 

 have come to St. Louis to step into their places and work, no new 

 generation grows up to take the work when the pioneers of the 

 academy have departed." There had at this time been no publica- 

 tion since 1868, hardly anything since 1866; on the whole, it was the 

 darkest hour of the institution's history. New life and new energy 

 were to come. The school board, with whom they had been so long 

 negotiating for new quarters, acted with promptness after the fire, 

 and meetings were held in their rooms, and later in the Polytechnic 

 Institute; in November, 1871, the school board voted five hundred 

 dollars for cases in the institute; in January following the St. Louis 

 Public-School Library offered to pay for the bindings of the unbound 

 books. In January, 1872, there began negotiations looking toward 

 a permanent home. At that time, James H. Lucas proposed to pre- 

 sent a plot of ground to the Missouri Historical Society for a build- 

 ing. President Johnson, of the academy, secured permission for 

 the institution to co-operate in the building. On June 8th Mr. 

 Lucas presented a lot of fifty by one hundred and nine feet, on con- 

 dition that the two societies should put up a joint building. Both of 

 the organizations took up the matter; committees were appointed, 

 various plans and schemes were suggested or attempted; fifty thou- 

 sand dollars was the sum to be secured. The subscription did not 

 go well; plan after plan was tried; appeal after appeal was made in 

 the presidential reports. Local pride was prodded by reference to a 

 sister institution : " Davenport, Iowa, is about to dedicate a building 

 to the service of science, and the funds to erect it were obtained 

 almost wholly by the persistent efforts of a single lady." The 

 original gift was conditioned upon the building being begun within 

 five years after the donation; at the request of the society this con- 

 dition was modified. Finally, after seven years had passed, in 



