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State. He was the author of an elementary work on the geology and 

 geography of Vermont, and assistant under Prof. Charles B. Adams, 

 State Geologist. At the time of his death he was Professor of Natural 

 Histoiy in the University of Vermont, and had recently been appointed 

 and entered upon* the duties of State naturalist, which included a geo- 

 logical survey of the State. 



John Locke died at Cincinnati, on the 10th day of July, 1856, at 

 the age of 65. He had long been distinguished for his zeal and suc- 

 cessful labors in many departments of science. He was an assistant 

 on the geological surve} 7 of Ohio in 1838, and afterward explored the 

 great northwest. His reports are characterized throughout by original 

 investigation, sound learning and good judgment. 



William C. Redfield was born at Middletown, Connecticut, on 

 the 26th of March, 1789, and died in New York, February 12, 1857. 

 He was distinguished as a meteorologist and naval engineer. His 

 geological publications consisted of a Notice of Fossil Fishes in Virginia 

 in 1838; Short notices of American Fossil Fishes in 1841; Notice of 

 newly discovered Fish-beds and a Fossil Foot-mark in the Red Sand- 

 stone formation of New Jersey, 1843; On some Fossil remains from 

 Broome county, N. Y., 1849; On the Post-Permian date of the Red 

 Sandstone Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, as shown 

 by their Fossil Remains, 1851; On the Fossil Rain-marks found in the 

 Red Sandstone Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, and 

 their authentic character, 1851; and on the relations of the Fossil 

 Fishes of the Sandstone of Connecticut and other Atlantic States to the 

 Liassic and Oolitic periods, 1856. 



Jacob W. Bailey was born April 29, 1811, and died Feb. 26, 1857. 

 He was distinguished as a chemist, mineralogist and botanist, but is 

 best known to the world for his microscopic researches. For more than 

 twenty years he was engaged in investigating and publishing dis- 

 coveries in microscopy. With the exception of what Ehrenberg did, 

 microscopic geology in this country seems almost alone indebted to 

 him for its advancement up to the time of his death. 



Michael Tuomey was born in the city of Cork, of Irish parents, Sep- 

 tember, 29, 1805, and died at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on the 20th day of 

 March, 1857. In 1844 he was placed in charge of the Geological Survey 

 of South Carolina, and four years afterward published his final report in 

 a large quarto volume. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of 

 Geology and Natural History in the University of Alabama, at 



