606 KEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



The following extract is from an article by Dr. Archibald Geikie, 

 then director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain: 



There can be no doubt that among the names of those who have pioneered in the 

 marvelous geology of western North America that of F. V. Hayden will always 

 mold a high and honored place. This place will be his due not only because of his 

 own personal achievements in original exploration. His earlier work exhibits much 

 of that instinctive capacity for grasping geological structure which is the main 

 requisite for a field geologist. He had a keen "eye for country." But he likewise 

 possessed the art of choosing the best men for his assistants and the tact of attracting 

 them to himself and his corps. In this way he accomplished much excellent work, 

 keeping himself latterly in the background so far as actual personal geological inves- 

 tigations were concerned, and contenting himself with the laborious task of organi- 

 zation and supervision while he encouraged and pushed forward his coadjutors. a 



In an obituary notice of Doctor Hayden, read before the American 

 Philosophical Society, Prof. J. P. Lesley, who had known him for 

 many years, pays him the following tribute: 



He represented in science the curiosity, the intelligence, the energy, the practical 

 business talent of the western people. In a few years they came to adopt him as 

 their favorite son of science. He exactly met the wants of the Great West. There 

 was a vehemence and a sort of wildness in his nature as a man which won him suc- 

 cess, cooperation, and enthusiastic reputation among all classes, high and low, 

 wherever he went. In the wigwam, in the cabin, and in the court-house he was 

 equally at home, and entirely one with the people. He popularized geology on the 

 grandest scale in the new States and Territories. He easily and naturally affiliated 

 with every kind of explorer, acting with such friendliness and manly justice toward 

 those whom he employed as his coworkers that they pursued with hearty zeal the 

 development of his plans. 



In dealing with the public men of the country he was so frank, forcible, and direct 

 that it was impossible to suppress or resist him. He had the western people at his 

 back so heartily and unanimously that he was for a long time master of the scientific 

 situation at Washington. He was a warm personal friend of some of the highest 

 officials of the Government, who never failed to support strenuously and success- 

 fully his surveys. 



I think that no one who knows the history of geology in the United States can fail 

 to recognize the fact that the present magnificent United States Geological Survey, 

 now under the direction of Major Powell, is the legitimate child of Doctor Hayden's 

 Territorial surveys. 



According to Cope, 6 the Sioux Indians gave to Hayden the name 

 "The-man-who-picks-up-rocks-running,' , a name which was certainly 

 descriptive of the manner in which much of his work was necessarily 

 done. The same writer states that at one time, when engaged in the 

 exploration of the Laramie beds of the upper Missouri, he was pur- 

 sued and finally overtaken by a band of hostile Indians. Finding him 

 armed only with a hammer and carrying a bag of rocks and fossils, 

 which they emptied out and examined with much surprise and curi- 

 osity, they concluded he was insane and let him alone. 



"Nature, XXXVII, February, 18SS, pp. 326-327. 

 ''American Geologist, 1, 1888, p. 110. 



