448 J. LeConte—Formation of the Earth-surface. 
Art. XLVIII—On the formation of the features of the Harth- 
surface. Reply to criticisms of 7: Sterry Hunt; by JOSEPH 
LeConte, Prof. Geol. Univ. of California. 
In the April number of this Journal, p. 264, Prof Hunt 
reviews my paper “On the formation of the great features of 
the earth-surface,”* criticising some points and making reclama- 
tion of others for himself. In his criticisms he has sometimes 
misunderstood and sometimes, I think, hardly fairly represented 
me. In his reclamations, it seems to me, that, in his anxiety 
to press yet once more upon the attention of geologists his own 
labors, he has mistaken the use of similar materials for the 
similar use of materials. That I have used materials similar to 
those used by himself and many others, I admit; but I have 
ing. Among these advanced geologists, I had in my mind 
Mr. Hunt, but did not think it necessary to mention so obvious 
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point, and in favor of this one, and thus justifying my selection 
* This Journal, vol. iv, p. 345 and p. 460. 
