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champion of Sedgwick's views and Sedgwick's rights, and 

 espoused his cause in one of his longest monographs, u His- 

 of the Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geolog} r ," 

 translated in lull by Dewalque ot Liege in 1875. One of the 

 last letters ot the noble old geologist, who linked the last 

 century with even the latter third of the present, was one of 

 thanks to Hunt. All the old fervor and enthusiasm of his 

 earlier days when he tirst traced the succession of these o'. 

 pakeozoie strata returns. The letter is worth quoting : 



November 14, 1872. 



" My Dear Professor: My infirmity of sight compels 



to dictate this letter to one whose writing will be more easy 



to read than mv o\vn. 1 am. however, now in my best 9>\ 



of health and my hand is unusually steady, but my eyes 



id the use of it. I read your letter which reached me 



this morning with very deep interest, and after a very careful 



rusal sent it to Dr. Cookson, whose name will appear in 



my Preface as a friend to our museum, and to all matters of 



val administration. I entreat you not to think me of 



such a pettish character as to take oth-nse at anything you may 



write on your own judgment and that ot your scientific 



frien-ls. I feel grateful to you for what you have done in 



.ing '(iiestions connected with the best arrangement of 



the g gXOUp both of America and of Kngland. 



iking IV' f. Henry I !< >gers whether the difference 



the faunas above and below what I may call the 



great Cambrian break of continuity was a> 



>it t \\ cd. it I mi.-; 



that it was quite as great and perhaps great* And is 

 it not strain." I deozoic segim- 1 it > 



8 place \ ;lv on t 'I'his 1 n. 



out from yo< and I think I had h- acd 



by : .'ogers. 



\Vil _-ers : t! as also iU-d 



!i.i\.\ 1 . the gr, 



