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growth of the peat and of the high water level — 4 inches in the sixty 

 years since coal-bnrning railroads ran across the Lynn marshes. 



He was, however, scrupulonsly careful in observing and stating his 

 facts as distinct from his inferences and glad to be challenged, and there 

 is no doubt that this discussion has aided wonderfully in making clear 

 the difference between proof that coastal subsidence is now going on 

 and proof that it has goue on in the past. 



"Washington, D. C, June 21. 1909. 



"I find that mental keys, like others, are likely to get lost just when they are 

 wanted, so I usually carry a notebook and put such convenient matters, as 

 addresses, etcetera, down in it. 



"Our friend, David White, has just opened up the box of coal fossils I sent 

 him from Michisjan, from the old Pere Marquette number 3 shaft, and on 

 casual inspection says it is the best lot of stuff he has seen from the Michigan 

 coal field." 



"Washington, D. C, March 18, 1910. 

 "All winter T have been putting in my evenings reading proof of that ever- 

 lasting Tuscola report, and T have come to the conclusion that you were quite 

 right about Cooper — he was a good man to read proof and attend to editing, 

 for the proof he used to send me was much less raw and crude than that that 

 T have had. now that he is gone. That is not what I am writing about, how- 

 ever. At the last moment Wright informs me that I have lost my appendix— 

 not my vermiform, but next higher in the scale, my molluscoidean appendix. 

 It seems that you added to the table of contents, 'Appendix — MoUusca of Tus- 

 cola County, by Bryant Walker,' and the manuscript was submitted printed, 

 galley proofed, and page proofed down to the last lot of pages, and it has just 

 been discovered that there is no appendix, mollnsca, etcetera, and I am writing 

 you to drop a note to Wright and tell him what you know about my helicoid 

 appendix and why it has been removed, if you have any recollection about it. 

 I also have written Walker to tell Wright what he knows about the same 

 appendix, and thus, since T have written him all I know about it, he will get 

 information enough to enable him to find the manuscript, to know whether he 

 is to wait for a new one or to cut out the appendix from the bowels of Chapter 

 VIII, to which it is now attached." 



The following illustrates his thoughtfulness for his friends and for 

 scientific material : 



"Washington, D. C, April 7, 1910. 



"I sent you today a bunch of pictures that T rescued from the waste basket 

 some days ago. Many of them are without labels, but they may come in handy 

 to pass around to illustrate certain points oi to have slides made from [they 

 were]. If not they can still go into the waste basket or be turned over to the 

 children to plaj^ with. Some have labels." 



His yearning for more facts and the reconciliation that comes in know- 



