April 3, 1896.] 



SGIENGE. 



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atoned for before Lord Kelvin's 100,000 feet 

 level is reached. 



As regards Mr. Bishop's ice-cap hypothesis, 

 would not an ice cap, on account of the low 

 conductivity of ice, have the effect of raising 

 the temperature rate instead of lowering it ? 

 Ellen Hayes. 



Wellesley, Mass., March 18tli. 



THE PEEE.OGATIVES OF A STATE GEOLOGIST. 



Editor of Science: As is well known to 

 manj' of the readers of Science, the writer of 

 this note spent the greater part of five summers 

 in Missouri, studying the crystalline rocks and 

 associated formations over an area about seventy 

 miles square in the vicinity of Pilot Knob, and 

 has published a number of papers concerning 

 them. While Wiuslow was State Geologist I 

 published the first half of Bulletin 5, and sent 

 in manuscripts to accompany the Iron Moun- 

 tain sheet, the Mine la Motte sheet, and my 

 final report, which was to constitute a mono- 

 graph, the last manuscript leaving my hands in 

 August, 1893. The Iron Mountain sheet was 

 engraved and proof sent me for my final re- 

 vision of the geological boundaries, as was also 

 the proof of my part of the accompanying text, 

 before Winslow left, the position of State Geo- 

 logist, while as early as March, 1892, the Mine 

 la Motte sheet was drawn and I marked the 

 geological boundaries on it, although it has not 

 yet been published. 



Shortly after assuming control of the State 

 Survey Office Dr. Keyes wrote me that he 

 would soon take up the manuscript of my final 

 report. On September 23, 1894, he wrote me 

 as follows : 



"Since looking over your MS. rather care- 

 fully I have come to the conclusion that it 

 would be best perhaps for me to write an intro- 

 ductory chapter on the general geology of the 

 region. We have now so much new material 

 on hand in this direction, and the topographical 

 sheets and reports on this have been completed 

 this summer and are now ready for the printer, 

 so that it would greatly enhance the value of 

 the report to incorporate this work. So much 

 more also is known in regard to the Cambrian 

 since I have made a trip into the region. 

 * * * I will revise the I. and II. 



chapters, if you are willing, so as the introduc- 

 tory will not cover the same ground; so you need 

 not give these chapters much attention." 

 (Italics are mine.) 



Knowing the facts regarding the preparation 

 of the sheets as above stated, it is diificult to 

 understand how so much ' new material ' could 

 have been gathered in so short a time. 



I wrote him in substance in reply to his letter 

 of September 23, 1894, that of course he could 

 write any introductory matter he chose, but 

 that I very much hoped he would not borrow 

 too freely from my manuscript in so doing. On 

 January 29, 1895, he again wrote me : 



"Regarding the other part of your letter I 

 can assure you that I do not wish to detract 

 one iota from the work or to deprive you of any 

 credit on account of changes which may be 

 made. Before it is printed I will talk or per- 

 haps ' write ' the matter over with you. ' ' 



The manuscript was finally sent me as Dr. 

 Keyes had revised it, but my first two chapters 

 had been so changed and so many positive 

 errors introduced that I wrote the State Geo- 

 logist it never would do to have it published in 

 that form. The result was he visited me in 

 April, 1895, and we talked the matters over 

 freely, as I thought. He consented to every 

 change I suggested excepting that he wished 

 my original manuscript abridged more than I 

 desired. During this conversation not a word 

 was said or even intimated that the chapter on 

 the general physiography was not mine. I 

 told him certain of the geological discussions 

 which he had introduced were so different from 

 what I had written that I did not care to be re- 

 sponsible for them. But I never thought of 

 this being his introductory chapter, as he said 

 nothing about it, and as his name was not at- 

 tached to it, although he called this the first 

 proof. No further word on the subject was sent 

 me, and I was given no chance to further read 

 the proof, although only twelve hours from him 

 by mail. On November 1, 1895, I received the 

 publication which appeared as a part of Volume 

 VIII. of the Missouri Geological Survey. Much 

 to my surprise I found that the whole of the 

 physiographic descriptions and much other 

 matter which I thought was entirely mine ap- 

 peared under his name without any intimation 



