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the house to withhold appropriations for publication, and to this 
day the materials that were gathered under his administration in 
the Lower Peninsula for two seasons of field work largely remain 
unpublished. They fill numerous large record volumes of manu- 
script. 
Meantime governor Baldwin, whose authority had compelled 
him to take the step which roused such deadly hostility, neither 
assumed the responsibility, nor justified the director in any offi- 
cial way, and the latter was restrained by official etiquette from 
shifting upon another the responsibility for his official acts. The 
whole Geological Board had but recently fully endorsed all the 
plans and operations of the survey; but they had not the virtue to 
defend what had been done with their open and individual 
approval. So, on the failure, or impending failure, of the appro- 
priation, the director sent in his resignation, glad enough to be 
relieved from what appeared to be the tyranny of an ignorant and 
capricious Legislature. ‘‘A Remarkable Maori Manuscript,”’ 
published in Sparks from a Geologists Hammer, is a parody of 
this episode. 
At the dedication of ‘‘Orange Judd Hall of Science,” at the 
Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Ct., he delivered an address 
on Setentific Education. The institution was hisalma mater, and 
its benefactor was his classmate. This address assumed bold and 
forward ground, and was published in pamphlet. The Boston 
Advertiser said: ‘‘It will be likely to attract much attention among 
-all who are interested in the ‘modern protest,’ since it takes de- 
cided and strong grounds in favor of the new education, boldly 
advocating its advantages, not only for special training, but for 
that liberal culture and discipline of the mental faculties and the 
character, which, it is generally supposed, can be obtained only 
from the classics. It will take rank with the most thorough and 
able arguments yet presented on this side of the discussion.”” On 
this occasion he reeeived from his alma mater the degree of Doctor 
of Laws. 
His recent experience with the versatile lower, house of the 
Legislature of Michigan brought sharp confirmation of a convic- 
tion, which he had already entertained and expressed, as to the 
unrestricted extension of the elective franchise to the ignorant 
citizen. The progress of the institutions of American civilization 
he considered endangered by thus putting them into, the hands of 
