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non-resident feature of the Chief Geologist's appointment exposed 

 him to constant criticism and attack. His absence from the 

 State during at least half the year, while the Legislature was in 

 session and while laws in regard to the survey were in process of 

 enactment, was the cause of numerous mistakes, particularly in 

 the publication and distribution of the reports. It was undoubt- 

 edly this feature of the survey that led to its premature suspen- 

 sion. 



Of Dr. Newberry's ability as an all-round geologist nothing 

 now needs to be said. Active and thoroughly trained in field work, 

 a brilliant and sagacious paleontologist, alive to all the demands 

 of the economic interests involved, of the widest opportunities 

 for observation and study, capable at once of minute observa- 

 tion and broad generalization, and master at the same time of a 

 style that was a model in respect to simplicity, lucidity and ele- 

 gance, he was easily the foremost geologist that Ohio has pro- 

 duced. Admirable as is his best work in the survey reports, 

 many of his friends feel that he has left nothing that adequately 

 and fully represents his great ability as a geologist. 



It is unnecessary to describe in detail the contents of the 

 various reports of the survey. A list of all its publications will 

 be found at the end of the present paper. 



Professor Newberry's original plan was a comprehensive one. 

 He aimed to cover the entire stratigraphy and paleontology of 

 the State in a series of parallel reports, and at the same time he 

 proposed to meet the demands of the people for practical guid- 

 ance in dealing with their great mineral staples by the prepara- 

 tion of a volume on economic geology proper. In this last work 

 he was from the first deeply interested. His plan also contem- 

 plated a fourth volume, to be entitled "Agriculture, Botany, and 

 Zoology." 



The fortunes of the second survey must be briefly traced. 

 At the end of the three years assigned for its completion, not 

 more than half the counties of the State had been reported upon ; 

 but no strenuous objections were made to its continuance, even 

 with increased appropriations, for several succeeding years. In 



