Report of the President 17 



The State liud four times in quick succession legally recog- 

 nized tlie importance of a geological survey by tlie appoint- 

 ment of a geologist, or a commission of geologists, to perform 

 that service — once in 1853, by the appointment of Edward 

 Daniels ; once in 1854, by the appointment of Jas. G. Percival 

 to sncced Mr. Daniels ; again in 1857, by the reappointment 

 of Mr. Daniels, upon the death of Dr. Percival ; and yet again 

 by the appointment of a Geological Commission consisting of 

 James Hall of New York, and Edward Daniels and E. S. 

 Carr of Wisconsin, in 1858. Nevertheless, except in the Lead 

 Eegion, to which considerable special attention had been given 

 by the sveral state geologists, but little more than general or 

 preliminary work had been accomplished up to 1861, when 

 the law instituting the survey was repealed. 



In Pure Mathematics, and in Physics, including Astronomy, 

 nothing of importance could be claimed by us. What had 

 actually been accomplished, both by us and for us, in the 

 departments of scientific investigation first above named, up 

 to the date of which we are now speaking (1870), will appear 

 on reference to the following quite complete catalogues of the 

 books, journals and charts embracing the results of such 

 labor:* 



IN DESCEIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TYPOGRAPHY AND HYDROGRAPHY. 



Report and Map of a visit to the Northwestern Indians in 1833. By Lieut. 

 J. Allen and H. R. Schoolcraft. Executive Document. 1833-4. No. 

 323. Washington. 8vo. 



Notes on Wisconsin Territory — Iowa Laud District. By Albert M. Lea. 

 Philadelphia. 183G. 12mo, pp. 53. 



Observations on the Wisconsin Territory: Chieflly on that part called "The 

 Wisconsin Land District," with a Map of the settled part of the Ter- 

 ritory, as laid oil' by Counties by act of the Legislature of 1837. Phil- 

 adelphia. 1838. 12mo, pp. 134. 



* The author of this report has pleasure lu stating that for the material of this and the 

 suhsequcnt bibliographical enumeratious he is largely Inclebtecl to that ethcient and 

 conscientious public officer, Mr. Daniel S. Durrie, Librarian of the Wisconsin State His- 

 torical Society, and Member of the Academy, whose Bibliograpliy of Wisconsin, being 

 now quite complete, should somehow be published at an early day. For the perfection 

 of his chartology, he acknowledges his indebtness to Dr. I. A. Lapham. 



