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work of his life, and, with the exception of his unfortunate nomen- 

 clature of the strata, ranks with the labors of the best geologists of 

 the time. He became Regius Professor of Geology and Natural His- 

 tory in the University of Glasgow, in 1857, which position he held until 

 his death. He was the first American who ever filled a scientific chair 

 in a European University. His contributions to science were numer- 

 ous in the American and European scientific journals and periodicals, 

 but especially in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, of which 

 he was for some years one of the editors. 



Robert W. Gibbes was born in Charleston, South Carolina, July 8, 

 1809, and died in September, 1866. He was the author of a Mono- 

 graph on the Fossil Squalidse of the United States, a Memoir on the 

 Fossil Genus Basilosaurus, another on Mosa^aurus and the three allied 

 new genera, Holocodus, Conosaurus and Amphorosteus, and other 

 scientific papers, as well as important papers on medical subjects, and 

 a Documentary History of the American Revolution. 



George W. Featherstonhaugh died at Havre, on the 28th da}' of 

 September, 1866, in his eightieth j*ear. His work was of little value. 



John R. Cotting was born in Acton, Massachusetts, in 1784, and 

 died at Milledgeville, Georgia, on the 18th day of October, 1867. He 

 was for two years State Geologist of Georgia. 



Caleb Atwater was born at North Adams, Massachusetts, Decem- 

 ber 25, 1778, and died at Circleville, Ohio, March 13, 1867. He was 

 an attorney at law by profession, but wrote a number of articles upon 

 geological subjects, which appeared in the American Journal of Science 

 and Arts. 



B. F. Shumard was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, November 24th, 

 1820, and died at St. Louis, on the I4th day of April, 1869. He was 

 an assistant geologist in the U. S. Government Survey of Iowa, Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota, from 1846 to 1850. In 1847, in connection with 

 Dr. Yandell, he published Contributions to the Geology of Kentucky. 

 He was an assistant, and prepared a palseontological report of the 

 geological survey of Oregon, in 1851. He prepared the palaeontological 

 part of Marcy's Red River Exploration, and the Geological Survey of 

 Missouri. He was appointed State geologist of Texas in 1858, and 

 made a geological reconnoissance of that State. His contributions to 

 the Transactions of the Academy of Science, of St. Louis, gave to that 

 journal a European as well as an American reputation. He was 



