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ant, but thought best to resign, largely to endeavor to urge 
the importance of a re-survey of Massachusetts. This effort 
was successful and the final results appeared in 1841. Further 
researches in ichnology and certain special topics appeared in 
1853 and 1859 as a part of this state survey. In 1857 he was 
persuaded to direct the state survey of Vermont, whose results 
appeared in 1861. 
For several years he had labored to bring the working geol- 
ogists of the country together to confer and compare re- 
sults. This was the origin of the American Association of 
Geologists, who met for the first time at Philadelphia in 1840, 
and he was the first president. This company invited the 
naturalists to join them the following year, and the organiza- 
tion was known as the American Association of Geologists 
and Naturalists until 1848, when, by the addition of the phys- 
icists the society became the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. The meetings of this societj'^ he al- 
ways attended and took prominent part in its sessions as in- 
dicated by the records. 
A very appreciative biographical sketch was prepared and 
read by Prof. J. P. Lesley before the National Academy erf 
Sciences in 1866. To this and to his autobiography we must 
refer those who wish for a fuller information than can be 
given here. The portrait (plate VII) represents him as he 
appeared not far from the age of fifty-five. 
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