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staff, and have made most important contributions. This ratio 

 of development has been, perhaps, duly proportionate to the 

 demands of the growing science, for the palaeontological side of 

 the governmental work was previously, we think, the more 

 advanced and occupied a relatively larger part, and might well 

 advance less rapidly and permit the physical wing to come 

 abreast of it. 



The administration has had a good degree of success in the 

 very delicate and difficult task of coordinating the work of the 

 general government with that of the states and in securing 

 friendly and helpful cooperation. Very notably excellent results 

 are being worked out by the joint effort in some cases. 



Not to unduly lengthen this notice by dwelling upon other 

 salient features of Major Powell's administration, suffice it to say 

 that it has been marked by originality and boldness of concep- 

 tion, by good judgment in organization, by unusual skill in 

 securing favorable legislative action, by large liberty to col- 

 leagues in the prosecution of their work and the publication of 

 their results, by broad and comprehensive views of the functions 

 of the Survey, and by great courage and tenacity of purpose in 

 the endeavor to compass them. 



The administration goes into the hands of a chosen colleague 

 in whom the retiring Director will find a worthy successor. We 

 predict for Mr. Walcott a brilliant administration. T. C. C. 



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We very much regret that the difficulties connected with the 

 Missouri Geological Survey, to which we have once before made 

 allusion, culminated recently in the abrupt termination of Mr. 

 Winslow's directorship. This unfortunate result finds some miti- 

 gation, however, in the fact that the Survey is not altogether to 

 be abandoned, as seemed at one time not unlikely, and that it 

 has been placed in so excellent hands as those of Dr. C. R. 

 Keyes, of the Iowa Geological Survey. It is also gratifying to 

 learn that Mr. Winslow has been engaged to complete his report 

 on the lead and zinc deposits, and that thus a very important 



