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mirable summar}' of the state's economic resources closes the volume. 

 For compactness and clearness, this Avork is not excelled, perhaps not 

 equaled, by any other official report published in this country. 



The office of State Geologist was restored in 1871, and Professor Saf- 

 ford received the appointment to the position, as well as to that of 

 Chemist to the Board of Agriculture. No reports as State Geologist are 

 credited to him, though he held the jDost i;ntil 1899 ; but he was coeditor 

 of the "Introduction to the Eesources of Tennessee," a stout volume of 

 1193 pages, published in 1874. This contains a geological sketch of each 

 county, adding much important material to that contained in his earlier 

 volume. He was coeditor also of a text-book on the geology of his state, 

 intended for use in the schools, and he published many brief articles 

 bearing on geological questions of local interest. In 1884 he contributed 

 to the census reports a careful discussion of the physico-geography and 

 agricultural features of Kentucky and Tennessee, and in 1888 he pub- 

 lished a new edition of his map of the state. In 1891 he published a 

 discussion of the geology of the. state in relation to water supply, and in 

 the same year he contributed two papers to the Bulletin of this Society. 



It was a misfortune for Professor Safford and his fellow-geologists that 

 during most of his life he was, so to say, isolated. He attended meetings 

 of the Association and of this Society when they were within his reach, 

 and he always contributed much of value to the discussions ; but he was 

 known in the fiesh to comparatively few of his fellow-workers, so that he 

 labored under the disadvantage of being known only by his writings, 

 most of which belong to a period of which some are apt to think, if not 

 to speak, disrespectfully. He was a man among men, everywhere com- 

 manding respect by his common sense, his integrity, and his manly recog- 

 nition of others. The excellence and importance of his geological work 

 became fully known to most of us only during the last decade, but 

 throughout his life his worth Avas recognized by Tennessee, in which for 

 more than forty years he was one of the foremost citizens. 



Bibliography 



1851. The Silurian basin of middle Tennessee, with notices of the strata sur- 

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 352-361. 



1853. Note on tooth of Petalodus ohiocnsis. American Journal of Science, sec- 

 ond series, vol. Ki, p. 142. 

 On the parallelism of the Lower Silurian groups of middle Tennessee 

 with those of New York. Proceedings of the American Association for 

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