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banner on which was written ‘*Excelsior,” He devoted many, 
but, separate, hours to service under each, Without concluding 
his western engagements to lecture, he returned to Syracuse and 
awaited the arrival of the cherished remains. At length, on Feb. 
1, 1874, they were given their final resting place at Ann Arbor, 
by the side of two sisters and a brother. 
1874-76. Owing to the desire on the part of the University 
authorities that he should now take part in public efforts to aug- 
ment the endowment, and to the serious curtailment which he had 
already suffered in his scientific work through the incumbency of 
the presidency, contrary to inducements held out to him on his 
acceptance of it, he notified the trustees, in March, of his intended 
resignation, and in June he unconditionally retired. For the 
duties of solicitor of money he had no qualification. Between 
paleontologist and financial agent there was a gap so broad that he 
had never contemplated crossing it. In July, 1874, he again 
visited Europe, and returned with his family in December, enter- 
ing now in the same university upon the chair of geology, which 
the trustees created and urged him to accept. 
Full of zeal for the development of the department which he 
had assumed in the Syracuse University, he prepared and 
published, at his own expense, an extended sy/labus of a proposed 
course of geological lectures, which should possess interest for the 
general public. He found it difficult, almost impossible, under 
the financial straits of the institution, to equip and maintain labo- 
ratories which corresponded with his ideas of the professorship of 
geology. It became evident that his position was not one in which 
a zealous and competent professor of science could build up either 
a reputation or a successful department. While he was meditating 
a complete severance of his relations he was called upon by 
bishop McTyeire, of the M. KE. Church South, who urged upon 
him the chair of geology, zoology and botany in the nascent Van- 
derbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn. Under the precarious 
condition, however, of the endowment of that institution at that 
time, he declined the position, although he subsequently accepted 
athree month's engagement. In June, 1875, he presented his 
resignation at Syracuse, but consented to retain a partial engage- 
ment of two months. 
On a basis of observations made in July, 1875, on the line of 
the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, he presented to the 
