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tory. There has been discovered in late years, 
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Major Lyon was born in Cincinnati in the year 1807. He came to 
Louisville while a young man and supported himself for a time by 
2 Side fed Naturally of a studious cipo and having 
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g. ith the 
ýt ishe, he applied stirs elf ‘at home and soon obtained a remark- 
able proficiency in the science; so great, indeed, had been his — 
gpphention and improvement that he was ' appointed by the Gov- 
rnment, surveyor of the public lands in Texas. This exploration 
Sound i up to him another science that was just in its pete 
There were few works on geology ote Mr. Lyon commenced the | 
study, but he ‘ learned from the roc i 
n his return from Texas he was peie on the State geolog- 
ical survey of Kentucky with Dr. D. D. Owen, Prof. E. T. Cos 
Leo Lesquereux and others, and it was on this survey that his 
eminent abilities as a geologist and topographical engineer wete 
first made known to the scientific world. | When hostilities com- 
menced between the North and South, the United States Govern- 
ment secured the services of Mr. Lyon and he was attached to the 
command of Gen. Morgan, of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, ® 
chief of the Engineering corps, and by his skill and particularly 
by his knowledge of the topogr aphy of gien ree 
service in the first campaign of the wa g this cam- tle 
paign, at Cumberland Gap, he rrue ‘enced aaa from 
effects of which he never recovere 
_ The home of Mr. Lyon on the Falls of the Ohio offered him “i 
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ialty, and his collection of crinoids is sokiai pie to 
world. r. Lyon contributed several articles and rain of ie 
genera and species of crinoids, found at the Falls of the SMM | 
the Philadelphia Academy of Science. A large portion of the The 
of the Kentucky Geological Survey was also from his pen 
report of the Smithsonian Sea for 1870, araa : fe 
ual 
Mr. Lyon was eminently a self-made ma pe de M 
earnest study, aided by a naturally fine intellect, he mate tions 0 
ne of the first scientists of this country, and his contri 
scientific knowledge have earned for him a lasting Tec? 
Tue Royal Danish Society of Science proposes ne si 
questions for competition for the year 1872:— Questi ee 
and northern parts of Europe, an astonishing quantity of 
and demi-Roman antiquities of the first centuries of the 
