. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY DECADE OF 1860-1869. 525 A noble and unselfish man, who, as some one lias expressed it, "went in and out of the houses of this State, making- friends of every man, woman, and child he ; Farseeing, persistent, ever calm and judi- cious in his work, yet light hearted and cheerful among his friends— his broad expanse of face, full of light, his eyes gleaming with kindliness, as well as with shrewdness, and often
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY DECADE OF 1860-1869. 525 A noble and unselfish man, who, as some one lias expressed it, "went in and out of the houses of this State, making- friends of every man, woman, and child he ; Farseeing, persistent, ever calm and judi- cious in his work, yet light hearted and cheerful among his friends— his broad expanse of face, full of light, his eyes gleaming with kindliness, as well as with shrewdness, and often with a right-merry twinkle; his genial smile, his frank greeting, never marred by any hollow and flippant phrase of mere etiquette, but as honest as it is cordial; his sympathy, so responsive yet so genuine; his massive though quiet strength of purpose; and his self-contained, self-poised nature, all crowned with boundless hopefulness, united to make his very presence an inspira- tion and benediction. In the author's memory there are two men among American geolo- gists who stand out as devotees of science, yet entirely free from the narrowness of the specialist or the personal idiosyncrasies that so fre- quently mar the character of men of their class. These two men are George H. Cook and Edward Orton. They loved science for science sake, yet did not close their eyes to its eco- nomic bearing, nor call upon an overtaxed public to support them in the work they loved, regardless of its outcome. Never a minister of the gospel had the interests of his parishioners more at heart than these two men that of the public they served. For themselves they asked simply the privilege of doing the work and doing it to the best of their ability. B. F. Mudge, as State geologist, submitted his First Annual Report on the Geology of Kansas for the year 1864, in form of an OctaVO Volume of 56 pages, FlG- Franklin Mudge ^°^°I^-^^ige in 1866. He announced the in Kansas, in 1864. lowe
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