122 Association of American Geologists and Naturalists. 



Resolved, That Prof. Silliman, Prof. Olmsted, Prof. C. U. Shepard, 

 B. Silliman, Jr., J. D. Dana, and Edward C. Herrick, be the local com- 

 mittee for the meeting at New Haven next year. 



The Secretary then read the acknowledgments of /. D. Dana 

 and /. P. Couthony, relative to a charge of plagiarism. 



The members of the Association are aware of the charge of plagia- 

 rism, made by me against Mr. Couthouy, at the last meeting of the As- 

 sociation. Having seen his private manuscripts within a few days, I 

 feel impelled in justice to Mr. Couthouy, to exonerate him fully from 

 the charge. It affords me the most sincere gratification to find that my 

 suspicions were unfounded ; and a deep regret that the wrong should 

 have been committed. As has been stated, I was actuated by no unkind 

 feelings in making the charge, and I now take the earliest opportunity 

 after the evidence is brought forward, to present my full acknowledg- 

 ments. James D. Dana. 



The frank and perfectly satisfactory withdrawal by Mr. Dana, of his 

 charge of plagiarism brought against me at the last meeting of this As- 

 sociation, renders it incumbent on me to state with equal frankness, that 

 I do upon calm reflection, most fully acquit Mr. Dana of having at any 

 period misused the confidence I had placed in him, and that I sincerely 

 regret having, under a hasty impulse, expressed myself to the contrary 

 in my vindication published in the American Journal of Science.* It 

 is moreover due to both of us, to state that the implied charge of his 

 having done so, was based upon nothing which occurred until after Mr. 

 Dana's return to the United States. 



In the appendix to the last number of the American Journal, p. 8, I 

 remark in allusion to my public journals — " that they contain no theories 

 or inferences from the facts recorded in their pages, subsequent to our 

 departure from Callao, I am very certain, inasmuch as after having had 

 my own views therein contained, gravely quoted to me by another, as 

 the result oHiis reflections; I determined thenceforth, while recording 

 facts, to keep my deductions to myself till the time arrived for me to 

 publish them." Although I have the happiness to believe that Mr. Dana 

 himself is now satisfied that he was not the person to whom I referred, 

 still, as my language has been so construed, I feel bound expressly to 

 declare that I never for an instant entertained a suspicion that Mr, Dana 

 could be capable of such a course. On the contrary our intercourse 

 up to the hour of parting at Oahu, was one of unbroken friendship and 

 confidence on both sides, and while I must ever regret that aught should 

 have since occurred to interrupt it, I gladly embrace this occasion to 



* Vol. XLV, p. 387. 



