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2 So return as soon as you can the enclosed filled out. As to the geology, they would expect, as a matter of courtesy your
book, when it is done. Remember it is the State that sends it, and not myself or Hitchcock. You speak of the handsome treatment
our State has received from the geologist Hitchcock. You ought to have been in our legislature and heard the cursings he got
for his extravagant use of the money voted for that purpose. I don t think our people are altogether satisfied with him any
way. Year by year he got a little more out of our legislature until in all I? illegible 30,000 was taken more or less. Hitchcock
is close, not entirely 00888 3 reliable / I do not mean in his scientific? statements. He has employed a great many
assistants, and he has dealt riggardly? with them. However let this? pass. Gunny does not pass current here. He doesn t post
himself up with the new developments, He is an unconscionable bore, lectures too long and is tedious. His f illegible is drawing
blackboard illustration. In this he excels everybody I know of. And on the whole he awakens an interest in p illegible also
knows? nothing about geology whatever. therefore he is a useful man. Summing him all up, he lives upon his past acquaintances?
, and does not learn any thing new. I am glad the Carr s have come out right and as you say, the illegible are a bad lot