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sincerely, & would return you such [Helisd?], as I have from my collection in Cincinnati. & also from Europe.
I shall return by way of Milwaukee in a few days, & anything left at the Newhall House, will reach me. or you can send direct to Chicago.
But I shall endeavor to see you, at all events, in Milwaukee.
Say to Prof. Englemann, that I deeply regret the loss of all the collection they put up for me, as I had them mostly classified & arranged. If they would aid me with a few more specimens of Wisconsin, they shall never be the losers.
With the hope of seeing you soon & hoping you will aid me in your own way for the cause of science.
Believe me, dear sir, Faithfully yours
J. Q. A. Warren [Cur.?] Memb. Ent. & [Ma-?] [Socys.?] of Belgium
St. Paul Dispatch-Academy of Natural Sciences
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Academy of Natural Sciences.
There was a very good attendance at the special meeting of the Academy last evening; among those present were several of our citizens who should be but are not members. The object of the meeting was to confer with J. Q. A. Warren, Esq., in regard to establishing a system of exchange of specimens with several European societies of which he is corresponding member. By request, Mr. W. addressed the Academy, explaining his relation to those Societies, and the object of his visit here.
He had a very large collection in Chicago, which he was intending to take to Europe this fall, but it was entirely destroyed by the great fire, and he desired to replace it as far as possible before his return to Europe, which will be in December. He wishes to exchange European specimens for American, especially for Minnesota fossils and shells. In the course of his remarks he paid a high compliment to the Academy, expressing both pleasure and surprise to find so large a collection possessed by so young a Society, and urged the members to renewed exertions.
He also mentioned some of its needs, prominent among which are money to carry on the work so well commenced; suggesting that if some of our wealthy citizens would come to its aid now with a few thousand dollars they would not only do themselves a credit, but wold enable the Academy to ac complsh [accomplish] immediately what without such assistance it would require years to attain; with funds now the institution would rapidly grow to be the pride of the city and State.
It is to be hopped [hoped] that the members of the Academy, and others, will improve the opportunity now offered by Mr. Warren to open correspondence with the Scientific Societies of London, France and Belgium, which will be the means of adding to their cabinet and library many volumes and specimens, and also open a way for pleasant and beneficial correspondence with the savants of the old world. Mr. W. will remain in the the [sic] city until Monday, and he will be pleased to confer with ony [any] one on the subject. He is stopping at the Metropolitan.
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Prof R [Roland] Irving
Madison Wisconsin Nov 18th 71
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My dear Sir,
I have made another visit to Devil's Lake and have succeeded beyond all my hopes in obtaining evidence which to my mind places beyond all question the antiquity of the quartzites & schists. I have found the sandstones overlying uncon[formasly?] the very highly [telled?] schists and quartzites.
My present object in writing you is to try and to get some more information from you
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3. Have you any idea of the approximate lengths of the quartzite ridges east & west, or rather do you know where the quartzite last appears at each end?
If I am imposing on your kindness - say so - but I am really anxious to put my results together so as to make them worth something. & so am trying to get all the information
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Will you answer me the following questions?
1. Is there any quartzite on the upper narrows of the Baraboo? If so has it any peculiar characeristics?
2. In Hall's Report p. 11 reference is made to a "low hill" north of the Baraboo River. Can you tell me where that low hill is? It is not the hill back of Mrs. Garrisons at the lower narrows.
