8 The American Gcoloi^ist. juiy, 1901. 
ings. A fever set in ; bis peaceful death came too soon for sci- 
ence, for on January 19, 1876, he made the great discovery. 
As before intimated there is no bibhography. And yet his 
hue has gone out into all the recent literature of the rocks of his 
region. Probably a part of Mr. Wing's work has been lost be • 
yond recall ; but from field notes, letters, and incomplete papers, 
these latter evidently designed to be elaborated for publication, 
the greater part through professor James D. Dana's sympa- 
thetic labor has been recovered. 
This writing gives but an inadequate idea of the real worl: 
of Mr. Wing, and so the writer most earnestly requests the 
reader to turn to an article in the American Journal of Science , 
Series III, Vol. xiii, page 332 and subsequent papers, that he 
may get a more nearly correct estimate of this work and its in- 
fluence. 
Fragments of significant paragraphs from professor Dana's 
article read : 
"Mr. Wing, by the vise of his spare time amid the duties of 
teaching, accomplished vastly more for the elucidation of the 
age of the Vermont rocks than had been done by the Vermont 
Geological Survey. '■' * * '■' Mr. Wing's discoveries shed 
light not on these rocks alone" (Eolian limestone and adjoining 
formations), "but also on the general geology of New England 
and eastern North America." 
But the whole article and related ones should be read, fo,- 
with this incomplete sketch in hand one gets but a glimpse of 
Mr. Wing's real work. Yet, with even this, the reader may 
recognize something of the obligations science is under to one 
who with his surroundings did his best for geology and did so 
well. Wherever his careful, helpful, self-denying researchers 
are known there an appreciative recognition of Mr. Wing's 
contributions to science is sure to be accorded. 
