ELISIIA MrrCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 1()3 



the first a small report submitted for jMiblication November, 

 1844, whieh contains, in addition to Tnotney's report of 48 

 pa^es, an appendix giving the "Prize Report of Agricultural 

 Ex[)eriments, submitted to the State Agri(udtural Society of 

 South Carolina," November, 1844, hy F, S. Holmes, consisting 

 of 7 pages, and a "Supplement to Mr. Ruffin's Re})ort," by 

 Edmund Ruffin, 7 pages. (2) The second, a "Report on the 

 Geology of South Carolina," is a volume of larger proportions. 

 It was submitted for j)ublication November, 1846 (though not 

 published until 1848), and contains a summary of what was 

 known at that time relative to the geology of the State. In 

 addition to Tuomey^s rejiort, covering 29^3 pages, it contains as 

 an appendix a Catalogue of the Fauna of South Carolina, by 

 Professor L. R. Gibbes (24 pages); Meteorological Tables 

 (6 pages); and several lesser papers, among which is an abstract 

 of "Vanuxem's Report" on minerals and rocks collected in the 

 State, taken from '^MlWs Statistics of South CaroUnaJ^* 



Lieber's Geological, Mineralogical and Agricultural 



Survey, 185e-'60. 



The results of ti)e surveys by Ruffin and Tuomey were such 

 as to arouse a deeper interest in the development of the agri- 

 cultural and mineral resources of the State. Among these 

 results, and accompanying them, the development and successful 

 working of various gold deposits of Chesterfield, Lancaster, 

 York, Abl)eville, Edgefield and other counties, and iron de- 

 posits of York and Spartanburg, served to increase this interest. 

 And it was doubtless this growing interest in the mineral wealth 

 of the State which led to the inauguration of the Liel)er survey. 



The immediate establishment of this survey is explained in the 

 following Report and Resolutions adopted by the General 

 Asseujbly (»f South Carolina, December, 1855: 



The Conuuittee on Agriculture aiul Internal Improvements, to whom was 

 referred the memorial of sundry citizens of St. Helena Parish, on the suljett 

 of an Agricultural and Geological Survey of the State, and also a resolution 



♦Columbia, S. C, 182G, p. **5, 



