Later Life
Hayden was made professor of geology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1865 with the help of Leidy. Upon the reorganization and establishment of the United States Geological Survey in 1879 he acted for seven years as one of the geologists. He died at Philadelphia on the 22nd of December 1887.
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