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chusetts, and died at Washington city, on the 16th day of May, 1861. 

 He was an assistant upon Owen's Geological Survey of Wisconsin, 

 Iowa, and Minnesota. He was the first scientific explorer who visited the 

 Mauvaises Terres of Nebraska, and collected fossils from that cemeteiy 

 of extinct animals. The collections were described by Dr. Leidy in 

 his work on the Extinct Fossil Fauna of Nebraska. In 1850 he was 

 appointed U. S. Geologist for Oregon, a position which he filled for 

 five 3'ears. 



Hiram A. Prout died at St. Louis, on the 21st day of April, 1862. 

 He was one of the founders of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, and 

 though a pli3*sician by profession, took a deep interest in Natural 

 History, and described a great many fossils. His geological work 

 will be found in the Transactions of that Academ\\ 



Samuel P. Hildreth was born in Methuen, Essex county, Massa- 

 chusetts, September 30, 1783, and died at Marietta, Ohio, July 24, 

 1863, in his 80th 3-ear. He is best known, probabh', for his me- 

 teorological observations; but his "Observations on the Bituminous 

 Coal Deposits of the Valley of Ohio, and the accompan} T ing strata,'' in 

 1836, very justly gave him the reputation of a geologist. He was 

 afterward an assistant on the Geological Surve} T of Ohio. 



Ebexezer Emmoxs was born in Middlefield, Mass., May 16, 1799, 

 and died at Brunswick, North Carolina, October 1st, 1863. He 

 graduated at Williams College in 1818, and received the degree of 

 M.D. from the Berkshire Medical school in 1830. He was appointed 

 one of the Geologists of New York, and made the survey of the 2d 

 district, the geology of which was unknown before the publication 

 of his report, in 1842. His report on Agriculture, which contains 

 his "Taconic S}~stern," was published in 1846. He published a work 

 under the name of American Geology in 1856. He was appointed 

 State Geologist of North Carolina, and made a Report on the Midland 

 counties in 1856, and a general report in 1860, and was engaged in 

 the survev of that State when the war broke out and forced its dis- 

 continuance. 



Fraxcis Alger was born in Bridgewater. Massachusetts, March 8 

 1807, and died at Washington, November 27, 1863. He was a miner- 

 alogist of more than ordinary ability. His geological explorations 

 were usuallv only incidental to his favorite pursuit. The greater part 

 of his work was published by the Boston Society of Natural History. 



