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Paul Gritis Books is a mainstay at the Mid-America Paleontology Society’s EXPO.   He was there again in 2025 with some good ESCONI books.

He had a great copy of the “Geologic Survey of Illinois” by Amos Henry Worthen (1813-1888). That’s the book with the gold Euproops danae on the cover. Worthen was the second state geologist of Illinois and the first curator of the Illinois State Museum.

It had an inscription to Professor Edward W. Claypole with regards of Artemas Carter in June 1874.

This was probably Edward Waller Claypole (1835-1901), who was a British American geologist and paleobotanist.  He came to America in 1872 and served as Professor of Natural Sciences in Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, from 1873 to 1881, which matches the inscription.

Artemas Carter appears to have been a professor of Ecology, Zoology, and Botany.  Unfortunately, nothing else could be found.