Another subject which occupied him was Meteorites; ; 



ar crystalline markings in a Wisconsin meteorite, first n 



} designated by Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, i 



meteorite in this Journal (II, xlvii, 271), Laphamite markings. 



The establishment of the Signal Service Bureau at Washington 

 in 1869 was due largely to personal effort and influence on the 

 part of Mr. Lapham. 



Dr. Lapham was placed, in 1873, at the head of the Geological 

 Survey of the State of Wisconsin, a position for which he was well 

 fitted : and the Survey went forward with energy and important 

 results through that year and 1874. To the misfortune of science 

 and the State, he was deposed at the close of 1874, and, through 

 political management, a man ignorant of geology was substituted. 

 It was a serious disappointment to Dr. Lapham, and not less so to 

 all friends of science in the land. " His abrupt dismissal was all 

 the more cruel because this was the only opportunity he ever had 

 of perfecting and giving to the public in a permanent form the 

 results of a life-work in the geology, natural history and industrial 

 resources of the State." 



Dr. Lapham was active also in all educational movements ; a 

 founder of the Milwaukee Female College, a liberal contributor 

 to the Cabinet of the Wisconsin State University, and one of the 

 founders of the Wisconsin Historical Society, and of the Wiscon- 

 sin Academy of Sciences. 



Rev. Augustus Wmo, of Rochester, Vermont, died in Whiting, 

 in that State, on the 19th of January, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. 

 Wing was a graduate of Amherst College, of the class of 1B35. 

 Although not a geologist by profession, a large part of his time for 

 many years had been spent in the study of the rocks of Vermont, 

 and especially of the crystalline limestone, quartzyte and slates of 

 the central portion of the State. By the discovery of Lower Silu- 

 rian fossils in the crystalline limestone at several different localities 

 he threw much light on the geology of metamorphic New England. 

 In August of the past year the writer had the pleasure of accom- 

 panying Mr. Wing on a visit to some of his localities that were of 

 special interest for their fossils or for their illustration of the strati- 

 fication of the rocks, and this was his last scientific excursion, ex- 



as ne poiniea tnem out; nis earnestness m maKing ituuwix u^.^ -— 

 elusions and in supporting them against all expressed doubts; bis 

 eager, rapid gait as we walked over the rocks and hills, made huQ 

 an especially agreeable companion, and suggested no thought of the 

 end that was so soon to come. Before parting, he promised to sena 

 for this Journal an account of his discoveries, as in fact he had 

 done before. But he disliked writing, and it was not sent. "6 

 hope that his notes may yet afford material for such a paper. 



