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Report on the Survey of South Carolina : being the first annual 

 report to tiie General Assembly; by Oscar M. Lieber. Colum- 

 bia, 1856. 8vo., viii, and 136 pp. and 9 plates.* 



Report on the Survey of South Carolina: being the second 

 annual report to the General Assembly; by Oscar M. Lieber. 

 Columbia, 1858. 8vo., viii, and 145 pp. and 5 |)lates. 



Report on the Survey of South Carolina: being the third 

 annual report to the General Assembly; by Oscar M. Lieber. 

 Columbia, 1859. 8vo., xv, and 223 pp. and 3 plates. 



Report on the Survey of South Carolina: being the fourth 

 annual report to the General Assembly; by Oscar M. Lieber. 

 Columbia, 1860. 8vo., ix, and 194 pp. and 4 plates. 



[The last four reports are bound in one volume, with the title, 

 Reports on the Geognostic Survey of South Carolina; by Oscar 

 Montgomery Lieber, State Geologist of S. C, I, II, III, IV. 

 1856-1860. Columbia, 1860, with an index and glossary to 

 the four Reports.] 



Biographical Notes. 



Lardner Vanuxem. — See notes and references, ])ages 90-93, 

 above. He was born in Philadelphia, 23d July, 1792, and died 

 in Bristol, Pa., 25th January, 1848. He was graduated at the 

 ficole des Mines, Paris, 1819, and soon thereafter (1821) accepted 

 his position in the South Carolina College. While connected with 

 this institution he devoted his vacations during 1825 and 1826 

 to making geological tours through various portions of the State. 

 After his return from Mexico, during 1827—28, under the aus- 

 pices of the State of New York, he studied the geological fea- 

 tures of the States of New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and 

 Virginia; and in 1836 the geological survey of New York was 

 established and Vanuxem was placed in charge of the third geo- 

 logical district, where he remained in active service until 1841^ 

 and published his results in the Geology of New York, Third Dis- 

 trict (Albany, 1 842). Subsequently he spent some time in arrang- 

 ing the collections of the survey, in Albany. In 1838 he sug- 



*A second ^and sliglitiy revised) edition of tiiis report was published in 1858. 



