Editing Charles Sanders Peirce (section)

==== 1880 to 1891 ====
During the 1880s, Peirce's indifference to bureaucratic detail waxed while his Survey work's quality and timeliness waned. Peirce took years to write reports that he should have completed in months.{{according to whom|date=March 2013}} Meanwhile, he wrote entries, ultimately thousands, during 1883–1909 on philosophy, logic, science, and other subjects for the encyclopedic ''[[Century Dictionary]]''.<ref>See "[http://www.pep.uqam.ca/short.pep Peirce Edition Project (UQÀM) – in short] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706211228/http://www.pep.uqam.ca/short.pep|date=6 July 2011}}" from [[#PEP|PEP-UQÀM]].</ref> In 1885, an investigation by the [[William B. Allison|Allison]] Commission exonerated Peirce, but led to the dismissal of Superintendent [[Julius Hilgard]] and several other Coast Survey employees for misuse of public funds.<ref>Houser, Nathan, "[http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v5/v5intro.htm Introduction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607101202/http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/writings/v5/v5intro.htm |date=2011-06-07  }}", ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce'', 5:xxviii–xxix, find "Allison".</ref> In 1891, Peirce resigned from the Coast Survey at Superintendent [[Thomas Corwin Mendenhall]]'s request.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=202}}</ref>