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ster College, and the Masonic College. The civil war interfering 

 with the survey, the distribution was not made, and the speci- 

 mens for the most part remained in boxes for 23 years, until 

 1884, when they were unpacked and partly arranged in the 

 museum of the Missouri University. According to a rough cal- 

 culation these may include about 50,000 specimens of all sizes. 

 Under the laws governing the second geological survey, the spe- 

 cimens were to be distributed in the museums of the State Uni- 

 versity, the School of Mines, and Washington University. This 

 was partly done in 1875 ; those not divided remain in the muse- 

 um of Washington University arranged in cases. 



The collections include many rare fossils, some as yet undeter- 

 mined, and are very fully illustrative of the Palaeozoic fauna of 

 the Missouri rocks. 



UNPUBLISHED WORK. 



Much valuable work has been done which has never been 

 written up, and probably one-half of the notes could not be made 

 available. This work extended over forty-three counties, which 

 were chiefly partially examined during the period of the First 

 Geological Survey. Of these, Prof. Swallow examined the coun- 

 ties of Boone, Callaway, Christian, Green, Lawrence, Mississip- 

 pi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scotland, Scott, and Stoddard ; Dr. 

 Shumard surveyed Butler, Cai'ter, Lev^ris, Reynolds, Ripley, 

 Stoddard, and Wayne. Dr. Norwood surveyed the counties of 

 Benton, Cass, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, and 

 St. Clair. G. C. Broadhead made surveys in Audrain, Caldwell, 

 Callaway, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Knox, Lincoln, 

 Mercer, Monroe, Pike, Montgomery, Ralls^ and St. Charles. 

 Dr. John Lucke, C. Gilbert Wheeler, and H. A. Ulfters, made 

 surveys of Carroll, Chariton, Clinton, and Ray. 



BENEFITS RESULTING FROM THE SURVEY. 



There was but little known of Missouri geology prior to the 

 First Survey of Prof. Swallow. Dr. King, Dr. Prout, Dr. Mar.- 

 ghas, and others, had written short articles published in maga- 

 zines or newspapers. In 1801 Moses Austin had published 

 statistics and notes of the then known lead mines. In 1S19 

 Schoolcraft had issued a similar publication, and Whitney pub- 

 lished brief notices in his " Metallic Wealth." 



