oS The American Geologist. February, 1892 
had found so large a sale as the Sketches of Creation, A large 
demand has continued to the present date. 
Almost simultaneously appeared his Geological Chart, intended 
for the class-room of the college and the High School, 
1871. But his principal activity was demanded by the duties 
of the geological survey. In the latter part of 1870 he drew up 
a preliminary cast of a report of progress, and in Jan., 1871, it 
was submitted to the Legislature. It was printed at once in 
pamphlet. This did not attempt to embody results, but set 
forth the plan of operations and the scope of the work contem- 
plated, producing estimates of final cost, with a degree of un- 
reserve more candid than judicious. The greater part of an 
octavo volume was substantially ready for the press. But a hos- 
tile influence had insinuated itself into the Legislature. The 
Senate very promptly passed a bill making appropriations for pub- 
lication ; but the House was now under the manipulation of one 
S W. Hill, from the Upper Peninsula, who had taken offense at the 
employment of Prof. R. Pumpelly, instead of himself or some 
other resident of the district, to prosecute the survey of the cop- 
per region. Mr. Hill had been a subordinate employe of the 
survey under Foster and Whitney, and was known as an exploring 
miner or ‘‘expert”’ in the Northern Peninsula. As director, Prof. 
Winchell had made a preliminary arrangement with Forster, 
who was well versed in the facts connected with the geological 
developments of the region, but Gov. Baldwin objected, because 
Forster was already one of the commissioners of the Sault canal. 
Hill was utterly incompetent and out of the question, though both 
ambitious and unscrupulous. Prof. Pumpelly was well known, 
even then, as a student of such ore-deposits, and was the ‘most 
suitable man, But Hill notwithstanding his assuring and frtendly 
letters, conceived an implacable hostility to the director and to 
the survey, and secured his election to the Lower House with 
the proclamation that he would kill the survey. So by the most 
industrious, insidious and unscrupulous misrepresentations and 
perversions of facts, he created a strong adverse sentiment. In 
this he was aided by Dr. Manly Miles, then residing in Lansing, 
who ten years before had so mismanaged the Zoological depart- 
ment of the survey then in progress, that the director got rid of 
him by having the Zoological department abolished. Between 
the two suflicient influence was exerted to induce a majority of 
