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ing the existence of a hitherto unrecognized sequence in the upper 
part of the Early Carbonic section in the Upper Mississippi Val¬ 
ley were obtained by various members of the Kentucky and Illi¬ 
nois Geological Surveys, in the early fifties of the last century, 
although their main observations remained unpublished for many 
years. Thus, Worthen, evidently somewhat peeved at Hall over 
the publication by the latter of information which he fancied 
rightly should have been withheld indefinitely, or at least until he, 
himself, an Illinoian should see fit to give it out, and entering now 
the larger lists against Hall to contest the latter’s somewhat pre¬ 
tentious claims to exclusiveness on all matters appertaining to the 
American Paleozoic rocks, maintains priority for naming Hall’s 
Kaskaskia Limestones the Chester Limestones, notwithstanding the 
fact that, as he readily admits, he is a full decade late in publica¬ 
tion.^ 
In the matter of making public its results the early Illinois Sur¬ 
vey seems to have been particularly unfortunate. Under Dr. J. G. 
Norwood, an old associate of Owen, on the western Government 
surveys, the Illinois work was energetically begun in 1851. For 
several years nothing was published, Norwood being apparently 
obesed with the notion that the results should come out in final 
form. At the end of eight years a large amount of material had 
been put into shape for the printer — enough to occupy two bulky 
volumes of 600 pages each; and these were transmitted to the Leg¬ 
islature for publication. But the political exigencies immediately 
preceding the outbreak of the Civil War had already reached Illi¬ 
nois. A newly elected Republican governor removed Doctor Nor¬ 
wood from office, merely because he belonged to the opposing 
party; and a hostile Legislature blandly refused to appropriate 
funds to print a scientific report, however valuable it might be to 
the State, prepared by a member of a recently defeated political 
party. What this report contained can, at this distant day, only 
be surmised, and judged from the few stray notes that have 
trickled down to us in meager quotations in subsequent reports. 
Certain it is, that Dr. Henry Englemann had more or less to do 
with investigating the geological features of the southwestern por • 
tions of the State. How much of his information was obtained 
4 Illinois Geol. Surv., V'ol. I, p. 40, 1866. 
