104 The American Geologist. Febriiary, 1892 
Detroit meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science a communication entitled Rectification of the Geological 
Map of Michigan. 
In the autumn he wrote and delivered, before the Boston 
Theological School six lectures on the Relations of Religion to 
Science and Philosophy. These were afterward embodied in a 
volume. In January, 1876, he opened a ‘‘School of Geology” at 
Syracuse University. This had been announced by prospectus 
since August. For this enterprise he bore most of the financial 
expense himself. He wished to make the school of geology a 
permanent feature of the institution. The attendance, however, 
was small, the aid he had expected from the university was not 
rendered, the institution was located far from the city, cutting off 
some who would have joined had it been accessible, and his tenure 
of the position was feeble; for these reasons the second year's 
engagement here was devoted chiefly to university students. At 
Nashville, the first year, he devoted three months to lectures and 
instruction in geology and zoology. He delivered the commence- 
ment address at the ‘‘State Female College” at Memphis, and the 
Atheneum, Columbia, Tenn. He also gave the address before the 
literary societies of Vanderbilt University. His theme in this 
address was Uhe Worth of Culture. In that before the female 
college it was The Beautiful.* , 
At Vanderbilt University he was treated with very marked 
courtesy and hospitality by all connected with the institution, and 
he was importuned by some of the officers, seconding the requests 
of bishop McTyeire, to consent to a full connection and a perma- 
nent residence, but his first experience in the university convinced 
him that the old theology had too firma grip on the institution 
to render it hospitable toward modern science, and, mentally, he 
shrank from any more intimate contact with the theological relics 
of the dark ages. During his first sojourn at Nashville he 
completed the preparation of a volume on the relations of science 
and religion, which hesent to his publishers, Harper and Brothers. 
He also reviewed Dr. B. F. Cocker’s Theistic Conception of the 
World. (Meth. Quart. Review, July, 1876.) During the same 
period he made a scientific investigation of the Cephalopoda, 
belonging to the museum of the university, bringing to light 
several new species, and interesting features in old ones. Most 
*Reproduced in Spa rks From a Geologist’s Hammer. 
