ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 9 



RESIGNATION OF E. H. SEI.LARDS AS STATE GEOLOGIST. 



After serving the State of Florida for almost fifteen years, 

 three years as Professor of Geology and Zoology at the Univer- 

 sity of Florida and practically twelve years as State Geologist, 

 Dr. E. H. Sellards tendered his resignation which became effective 

 April i8, 1*919. Dr. Sellards did not leave the services of the 

 State without regret, for the work was most attractive, the field 

 of labor and investigation rich and the associations formed in the 

 prosecution of the great work that he had accomplished most pleas- 

 ant. It was, however, the mounting cost of the daily necessaries 

 and comforts of life with the decreasing purchasing power of the 

 dollar that was the compelling force and deciding factor in the 

 acceptance of a more attractive offer with the Bureau of Economic 

 Geology and Technology of the State of Texas. No one was more 

 familiar with the geology of the State of Florida and its economic 

 resources than was Dr. Sellards and in his leaving the State has 

 lost the services of a most thorough, painstaking, conscientious 

 and scientific investigator. 



PERSONNEL OF THE SURVEY. 



Upon the resignation of Dr. E. H. Sellards as State Geologist, 

 Mr. Herman Gunter, who has been with the Survey since August, 

 1907, was appointed as his successor. On July i, 1919, Mrs. L. 

 B. Robertson entered upon the duties of Secretary of the Depart- 

 ment and served in this capacity until August i, 1920. Dr. Joseph 

 A. Cushman of the Boston Society of Natural History, a recog- 

 nized authority on foraminifera, minute fossils of great importance 

 in identifying geologic formations, has prepared a detailed rep6rt 

 on the species of this group as represented in samples of drillings 

 from several deep wells in the State. Dr. R. M. Harper has served 

 as Assistant on the Survey in the capacity of botanist and geog- 

 rapher since April i, 1920. A paper on the Geography of Central 

 Florida by Dr. Harper accompanies this report, which is in contin- 

 uation of a study and report on this subject covering northern Flor- 

 ida, contained in the Sixth Annual Report, published in 19 14. 



