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Tuscaloosa, and placed in charge of a geological survey of that State. 

 He died before his second biennial report had been published. He 

 was also associated with Prof. F. S. Holmes in the preparation and 

 publication of a splendid work, describing and illustrating the Pliocene 

 Fossils of South Carolina, but died just before the work was com- 

 pleted. 



James Deane, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, died on the 9th day of 

 June, 1858, at the age of 56. His contributions to geology consist of 

 papers on the Footprints in the Sandstone Rocks of the Connecticut 

 Valley. 



Parker Cleveland was born in Essex, Massachusetts, January 15, 

 1780, and died at Brunswick, Maine, on the 16th day of October, 1858. 

 He was for many years a Professor at Bowdoin College, and distin- 

 guished as a mineralogist. He published a book on mineralogy in 

 1816, to which was annexed a sketch of geology. 



William W. Mather was born in Middlesex co., Conn., May 24, 1804, 

 and died at Columbus, Ohio, February 27, 1859. He was for six years 

 an instructor in the U. S. Military Academy, where he graduated in 

 mineralog}' - , geology and chemistry. In 1836 he resigned his commis- 

 sion in the army and accepted the position of Assistant Geologist on 

 the Geological Surve}' of New York, which position he held until 1843. 

 He was State Geologist of Ohio from 1837 to 1840. He also made a 

 Report on the Geology of Kentucky. 



David Dale Owen Was born June 24, 1807, at Braxfield House, 

 Lanarkshire, Scotland, and died at New Harmony, Indiana, November 

 13, 1860, in his 54th year. He came to the United States in 1829, and 

 shortly after returned to Europe, but in L833 returned to the 

 United States, and in 1835 received his Medical diploma from the 

 Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. In 1837 he made a geological 

 reconnoissance of Indiana, and from that time to his death was 

 actively engaged in making geological surveys for the general 

 government, and for the States of Indiana, Kentucky and Arkansas. 

 His works are voluminous, and characterized by original research and 

 no ordinary amount of learning and judgment. 



S. A. Casseday was born in Louisville, Ky., and died at the same 

 place, in September, 1860. He is remembered for his valuable pub- 

 lications upon the Crinoidea. 



John Evans was born February 14, 1812, at Portsmouth, Massa- 



