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An additional word should be said, also, respecting the possibility 
of the figurine's coming from such a depth without injury. Inquiry 
into the conditions readily shows that this is entirely possible. As 
already said, the strata below the capping of lava near the top were 
unconsolidated, and no drill was used below the lava, except to cut 
through the clay strata. An iron pipe six inches in diameter was 
driven down with sections screwed on to the "top to give the required 
length. The material inclosed was brought to the surface by a sand- 
pump, which consisted of a tube about eight feet long, with a valve in 
t'ne bottom three inches and a half in diameter opening up. This let 
the quicksand and water and occasionally clay balls between two and 
three inches in diameter into the pump, and the whole was drawn up 
to the surface, and emptied out at the top. As already said, a great 
amount of quicksand was sucked in towards the bottom from outside 
the hole: so that there was a considerable area near the bottom from 
which to derive the specimen, which, as already said, is only an inch 
and a half long, and could more easily get into the pump through a 
three-inch-and-a-half valve than could the three inch clay balls which 
came up in abundance from near the same horizon. 
If, after examining the evidence, the men of science choose to call 
11! e credulous, I must endure the obloquy. But, I trust, at any rate 
that the pages of our scientific periodicals will not be hereafter dis- 
figured by charging gross fraud upon an honorable and well-known 
gentleman upon such slight basis of evidence as has been done in the 
case of Mr. Kurtz. 
Oher/i>i, March lo, iSgg, G. Fkedekk^k Wright. 
PERSONAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Lapham in bronze, a bronze bust of the late I. A. Lap- 
ham was placed in the public museum at Milwaukee, Mar. 7, 
presented by John Marr. Addresses were made by Dr. E. W. 
Bartlett, president of the Board of Trustees, L. W. Halsey, 
representing the mayor of the city, and Mr. John Johnston, 
the last being printed in full in the Evening Wisconsin. It 
was the 88th anniversary of Lapham's birth, and Mr. John- 
ston gave a review of his life and character. 
Dr. L. L. Hubbard has resigned the position of state 
geologist of Michigan, and has accepted the position of gen- 
eral manager of a mining company having a large tract of 
land on Keweenaw point. The primary cause of this action 
is the constant opposition of the State board of auditors to 
the work of the survey by refusing to publish its reports. 
The state printer has had in hand the printing of Vol. VI, for 
