Edward Orton, — White, 20i 
The Geological Survey under Dr. Newberry's direction had 
given the state some magnificent volumes on paleontology, 
and some good work in economics, but not enough of it to 
offset the cost of the paleontology, the direct benefits from 
which did not appear to the frugally minded Ohio legislator, 
and hence the old survey had fallen into disrepute, not alone 
from internal dissensions, but because it did not give the peo- 
ple as much information as they desired, concerning their 
every-day economic interests. Dr. Orton, ever in close sym- 
pathy and touch with the common people, and their reasonable 
demands, recognized their wishes, and thus popularized the 
survey, establishing it upon such an enduring- basis that it will 
probably continue indefinitely, since the son, Edward Orton, 
Jr., who has been appointed his successor as state geologist, 
has inherited much of his father's strong common sense and 
ability to deal successfully with the practical affairs of life. 
It was the writer's good fortune to know much of Dr. 
Orton and his geological work during the last twenty years. 
Living in adjoining states, and occupied with the same prob- 
lems in. economic and stratigraphic geology, there was a mu- 
tual bond of sympathy which his attractive personality kept 
ever strong. 
Dr. Newberry had, through pardonable errors in identi- 
fication, left the stratigraphy of the coal series of Ohio in an 
almost hopeless tangle. My work along the boundary of 
Pennsylvania and Ohio had revealed the cause of the disagree- 
ment in the stratigraphic column of the two states, and shown 
where the mistake had been made, through which two import- 
ant coal beds, and nearly 200 feet of strata had been dropped 
out of the Ohio system between the Mahoning and Ohio rivers, 
and the error perpetuated in the nomenclature of all the other 
coal regions of the state. Failing to convince Dr. Newberry 
of the error into which he had fallen, the writer submitted the 
evidence to Dr. Orton, who with that love and loyalty for truth 
which had ever characterized his life, even though it cost him 
place and power, after a careful investigation, adopted the new 
stratigraphy, thus overturning and remodeling the entire sys- 
tem and previous nomenclature of the Coal Measures in Ohio, 
but bringing order out of chaos and harmony out of discord. 
Chapter I of Volume V of the report on the Geological 
