Excerpt from First Anniversary Address Before the Association of American Geologists: At Their Second Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 5, 1841
Gentlemen of the Association: - It may be expected on this occasion, that I should give some account of the origin and progress of this society. The history is short. A number of geologists had for years been employed in prosecuting geological surveys in many widely separated states of the Union, and as they were bringing their labors towards a close, they felt a strong desire to compares notes with one another, that they might clear up points obscure in the districts which they had examined, but which might be secured in the final results. The gentlemen of the New York survey at length issued a circular, inviting those engaged in similar surveys in the other states, to a meeting in this city a year ago. The number that responded to the invitation by their attendance, was not large. But I am sure that I shall speak the unanimous opinion of all present, when I say that the meeting was most pleasant and profitable. It was highly gratifying for those, who had long been engaged in the same work in widely separated fields, and who knew one another only by reputation, to be able to exchange salutations, and hear one another's voices, and share one another's sympathies. Particularly important was it for those of us who are very much insulated from geological society and counsel, to meet those who could solve our difficulties, and by detailing the phenomena of their own districts, could throw light upon obscurities that hung over our own.
Under these circumstances, it is strange that the present meeting should have been appointed; nor that we should have ventured to invite others to join us, who are engaged in similar pursuits, although not in the state surveys; and some of whom are our seniors in cultivating the noble science of geology.
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