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ascertained facts. No man ranked higher as a stratigraphical geolo- 

 gist during his time. The Wallaston Palladium Medal of the 

 Geological Societ} r of London, was awarded him in 1856, and he was 

 knighted by Queen Victoria the same 3^ear. He was the first to find 

 that the Laurentian Rocks were capable of arrangement into a series 

 beneath the Huron i an. 



Increase A. Lapham was born March 7, 1811, and died Sept. 14, 1875,* 

 at Milwaukee, Wis. His "Antiquities of Wisconsin" was published in the 

 Smithsonian Contributions in 1855. He was known as a meteorologist 

 and archaeologist, and at one time was State geologist of Wisconsin. 



Charles Lyell was born in Forfarshire, Scotland, November 14, 

 1797, and died .at his residence on Harley street, London, February 22, 

 1875. He was educated as a lawyer, but soon turned his attention to 

 the stud}' of geology. He came to America in 1841, and remained a 

 year. After his return to England he published his "Travels in North 

 America." He came to America again in 1845, and after his return to 

 England published his "Second Visit to the United States." He also 

 wrote numerous papers on American Geolog}*, which appeared in the 

 Proceedings, Transactions and Journal of the Geological Societ\' of 

 London. 



Archibald R. Maryine was born at Auburn, New York, September 

 26, 1848, and died at Washington, March 2, 1876. He was an assist- 

 ant in 1871 on the Wheeler Expedition; in 1872 he was an assistant 

 to Pumpelly, in an examination of the Keweenaw copper region, for 

 the State of Michigan; and in 1873 became an assistant in the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of the Territories under Dr. Ha} T den, His geological 

 work will be found in the State and Government publications. 



Augustus Wing, of Rochester, Vermont, died in Whiting, Vt., on the 

 19th of January, 1876, at the age of sixty-seven 3-ears. He studied 

 the crystalline limestone, quartzite and slates of the central part of 

 that State, and his discoveries in relation thereto will be found in the 

 American Journal of Science and Arts. 



Elkanah Billings was born near Ottawa. Canada. May 5, 1820, and 

 died June 14, 1876. He commenced the study of law in 1839, and 

 followed the pursuit of a barrister until about 1856, when he was ap- 

 pointed Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada. For sev- 

 eral years, however, his time had been in large part devoted to the 

 study and collection of fossil organic remains, and he had published 



