524 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 66. 



tervening hills. From here one can see High Top 

 and Shut-in mountain to the northwest, Shepherd 

 mountain to the north, and Black mountain, Blue 

 mountain and Knob Lick mountain to the northeast, 

 with so many intervening hills of almost equal height 

 that the prominent ones mentioned can scarcely be 

 distinguished. 



( Here follow eleven manuscript lines descriptive of 

 topography south of Clark mountain. ) 



One more region should be especially mentioned in 

 this connection, that along the St. Francois river be- 

 low the Silver Jlines. The granite area, above des- 

 cribed reaches down the river a mile below the old 

 mining place bearing this attractive name. Here the 

 hills close in on each side forming a narrow valley 

 through which the river flows. In places the valley 

 is wide enough to contain extensive farms, first on 

 one side of the stream and then on the other, while in 

 other places it decreases to width barely sufficient to 

 admit the passage of the river. The hills are very 

 large. On the west bank there is Black mountain, 

 four miles long, King mountain, Gray's mountain, 

 and Mud Lick mountain, with less noted ones be- 

 tween. On the east bank we have hills almost as ex- 

 tensive whose peaks rise fully as high, but which are 

 not so long, nor so prominent by virtue of their 

 names. The highest of these hills have not been 

 measured, but certainly some of them surpass 700 

 feet, for two or three will almost equal Mud Lick 

 mountain, which is 793 feet above the valley. 

 ' ( Here follows a page more on topography. ) 



Many other instances might be given, par- 

 ticularly in the article on weathering of granite 

 rocks, the fissures in the rocks, etc. Every in- 

 stance mentioned on page 95, such as that of 

 the St. Francois river, was taken direct from 

 the manuscript without any intimation of its 

 source. The figures illustrating Keyes' chapter 

 were principally taken from photographs which 

 constituted a part of my manuscript as it was 

 sent to Jefferson City in August, 1893. Plates 

 III., VI., VII. and XI. are reproduced photo- 

 graphs taken by myself and Winslow of places 

 I specially chose. Plate IV. was taken by Mr. 

 Ladd years ago at my request, Avhile plate X. 

 was called for by my manuscript, although I 

 did not have a copy of the photograph to send 

 with the manuscript. 



In his letter of November 1.5, in referring to 

 my intimation that he had plagiarized he said : 

 " To say that it is, is most emphatically false, 



to the very last letter." The reader who has 

 suflScient interest to compare the parallel col- 

 umns above may judge for himself. No one 

 doubts a State Geologist's privilege of writing 

 as many ' introductions ' as he may wish, but 

 others also have the prerogative of questioning 

 the utility of such ' introductions ' when the 

 State Geologist is compelled to go to a sup- 

 pressed manuscript to find something to say. 



Dr. Keyes seems to be an adept in borrow- 

 ing illustrations without proper acknowledg- 

 ment. In Volume I., Iowa Geological Survey, 

 plate IX. was made from a photograph taken by 

 Prof. C. H. Gordon. He subsequently pub- 

 lished it in Volume II. as plate IV. , and in his 

 report on paleontology for Missouri in Volume 

 IV., plate IX., all without any acknowledg- 

 ments, although Prof Gordon had called his 

 attention to the matter (A. J. Sci. (3), Vol. 

 XLVI., p. 398, 1893). In Vol. 2, Proceedings 



