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tained by an annual appropriation of two hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars, continued for five years. When Mr. Olmsted resigned in 

 1825 to accept a professorship at Yale, Dr. Mitchell took up the 

 work of the survey in addition to the duties of his professorship 

 in the university. Olmsted's report was published in two parts, 

 in 1824 and 1825, and filled in all about one hundred and twenty 



The Astronomical Clock. 



This clock still keeps the time for the imiversity. 



Drawn by E. L. Harris. 



octavo pages. The American Journal of Science observes of this 

 survey that, regarded especially as the gratuitous vacation work 

 of a single individual, and in view of the state of geological sci- 

 ence in this country at the time, it " must certainly be looked 

 upon as creditable in the highest degree both to the enter- 

 prise and to the scientific ability of its projector, and it has un- 

 doubtedly been of great benefit not only to the State which 

 authorized it, but to the country and to science generally, by 



