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clearly relationships that were indistinct or indiscernible to many 

 others. He distinguished the principles involved and looked far to 

 the future. 



We did not find it possible to accept all the suggestions that he ad- 

 vanced, but the principles which he had so well in mind awakened 

 in myself a deeper appreciation than I had before of the far-reaching 

 importance of the work which had in small part been placed in my 

 hands. He helped me too by pointing out and emphasizing the 

 chances for mistakes which at that time I did not fully appreciate. 



This occasion gives me the opportunity I have coveted to say that 

 Doctor McGee helped me to a better grasp of the Appalachian situa- 

 tion. He was a wise counselor and a ready friend at a critical time. 



From Professor C. H. Hitchcock, of Honolulu, Hawaii: 



I first met Doctor McGee at the Boston meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in 1880. He had become 

 a member of the Association two years earlier, at St. Louis. Some- 

 what later he sent me a contribution upon the geology of Iowa for 

 my large geological map of the United States. I was quite surprised 

 that a young man not known to fame should venture to correct the 

 mapping of the geology of that State; but the correction was so obvi- 

 ously right that I immediately placed his delineation upon the map. 



In 1884, McGee and I were associated in the employ of the United 

 States Geological Survey in the preparation of a small geological 

 map of the United States. We prepared a single copy, using the 

 coloration devised by Major Powell and the classification of my 

 earlier published map. Our maps were published separately later, 

 one in the annual report of the United States Geological Survey in 

 1884, using the colors proposed by Major Powell, the other, with 

 many changes, in the report of the Institute of Mining Engineers 

 in 1886, designed to illustrate the scheme of coloration proposed by 

 the International Congress of Geologists. The Survey map was con- 

 fined to the territory upon which tolerably complete maps had been 

 already published; mine very ambitiously endeavored to fill the 

 gaps between the States and Territories, with data furnished unoffi- 

 cially by geologists more or less familiar with them. 



