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either tact or diplomacy treated them with curt resentment, which 
of course in the minds of the public was not defense but substanti¬ 
ation without further debate. The whole affair is certainly most 
unfortunate. 
Ye editor does not wish at this time to comment upon the merits 
of the situation; and Professor Kay has his full sympathy in this 
hour of grave tribulation. But he cannot refrain from asserting, 
w’hat he has already always advocated, that a geological survey 
has no business to be tacked on to any college or other state insti¬ 
tution and thus be made to share in their troubles. It is to be 
hoped for the good of geological surveys in general and the Iowa 
Survey in particular, and our science in its entirety, that in the 
interest of the higher aims of geological science Professor Kay 
will rise to the occasion, exchange the petty stipend as honorarium 
for his summer vacations, and propose some one for the post who 
is willing to give all his time and energies to the upbuilding of 
geological interest in the state. It is the earnest desire that the 
University, as the head educational institution of Iowa, will also 
nobly rise to the occasion and pay Professor Kay a full professor’s 
salary, one commensurate with the dignity of such position, so that 
he may not be compelled every year to enlarge his exchequer by 
petty additions from the outside. • 
To the very great credit of the Iowa farmers, be it said, not the 
slightest hint was dropped against the Survey as, a public institu¬ 
tion. Objection was entirely to the director, and to the charge 
that he had done so littlei in the ten long years of his office, after 
omitting what was left over from the Calvin regime. As one 
Patriarch tersely remarked, if the Survey is worth v/hile, it is 
worth having a good man put in all his time at it. So saith report. 
One most unfortunate angle which the Iowa Survey finds .itself 
in in its hour of great need is that it had previously alienated the 
affections of many, if not all, of the geologists of the state. To 
intensify an already bad situation it had recently proclaimed a 
ukase which virtually amounted to a prohibition against the publi¬ 
cation of anything appertaining to the geology of the state with¬ 
out first obtaining the Survey’s full approbation; and judging 
from certain articles permitted to pass censorship it seemed also 
necessary to get affixed the official label of “Published by permis¬ 
sion of the Director.” To many it seemed as if the Survey was 
striving to minimize the appearance of its own lack of productivity. 
All surveys should take warning before the weather gets bad. 
