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ance in the ideiitificatioti and description of tlie fossil forms. 

 The results of the combined labors of these gentlemen \v(.'re pid)- 

 lished in twi) large and beautiful VM)lumes, P/cloceiie i^.s'.svV.s- and 

 Post FicloGene Fossils of Soutk Carolina (1 857-' (JO).* 



In his study of the soils of the several rey-ions of the State, 

 Tuomey collected a number of samples, and of many of these 

 L'hemical analyses were made. In his reports he publishes a 

 considerable number of these analyses of both soils and marls, 

 made in part by himself and in part by Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, 

 and Dr. Ciuirles U. Shepard, of Charleston. 



The economic results of Tuomey's works cannot perhaps be 

 fairly or intelligently discussed at a time so long after the survey 

 was made. But there can be no doubt that his survey was of 

 considerable and lasting benefit to the State. 



In the line of agricultural improvement he encouraged the 

 farmers to adopt the improved methods which Mr. Ruffin had 

 introduced. In person, as he traveled through the State, and in his 

 reports, he instructed them as to the character of soils and their 

 improvement by rotation of crops and manures of various kinds. 

 He located and described the various sources of limestone rock 

 in the "hill coufitry," and instructed the people as to building 

 furnaces and burning lime for agricultural and architectural pur- 

 l)oses. He investigated with considerable thoroughness the gold 

 mining interests of the State, and the results of this work pub- 

 lished in his reports helped in bringing a considerable amount of 

 t'apital into the State and in properly directing the investment 

 of home capital. And so, also, his examination and advertise- 

 ment of the iron ore deposits, building materials, material for 

 millstones, and potters' clay de{)osits has at various times brought 

 capital in considerable quantity into the State, and has saved 

 to its citizens equally as great an amount by directing their own 

 investments and thus preventing waste of money. 



The results of the Tuomey survey are not rich in additions to 

 science, but nevertheless some valuable advances were made along 

 this line, especially as a residt of the work done in the coastal 



*See Bibliography at end of this paper, p. 113. 

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