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through some of the rie(hi)()Dt comities of the State ([)ortions of 

 Abbeville, Pickens, Si)artai)biirg and York, and perhaps also of 

 Pendleton and (jreenville), during which Professor Vanuxeni 

 examined in a superficial way tiie rocks and various important 

 mineral deposits wliich he found in these regions, and collected 

 more than 500 sj)ecimens, which he placed in the cabinet of the 

 college. 



As a further result of his work, he located on a copy of the 

 State ma})* ihe charactei'istic rock formations over which he 

 passed in making his explorations, and also published them in 

 MiWs Statistics of South Carolina, 1826, pp. 25-30.t 



No formal report of his survey is now to be found, or was 

 probably ever published other than this list. He subsequently 

 presented a copy of his report, probably in manuscript, to Mr. 

 Tuomey, who describes it as 'kittle more than a descriptive cata- 

 logue of the rocks and minerals collected."! 



His work doubtless stimulated the search for valuable min- 

 erals aujong some of the citizens along the line of his tours; 

 and his map and collections of specimens added to the teaching 

 facilities of the college. But other than as to these general points 

 there is little to be said as to the beneficial results or additions to 

 science resulting from tlie survey. As to this latter point, how- 

 ever, it must be added that at some time during his stay in South 

 Carolina Mr. Vanuxem determined the post-pliocene age of the 

 deposits underlying Charleston, arjd along with Dr. Morton, in 

 1829,§ he pointed out the existence of tertiary formations in the 

 eastern portion of the State. 



RuFFix Agricultural Survey, 1843. 



The establishment of this survey, near the close of the year 

 1842, was *^due to a movement altoo^ether a'j:ricultural." 



*As early as 1845 this map and many of the specimens had disappeared from the col- 

 lege cabinet. (LaBorde's History S. C. Collegk, p. 141). All the specimens have since 

 disappeared. 



fSee also Tiiomey's Geology of South Carolina, 1848, vXppendix, pp. XXXI and XXXII. 



JTnomey's Report on the Ueologieal and Agricultural Survey of S. C., 1844, p. IV. 



gSilliman's Journal, July, 1820, pp. 254-25(5. Jour. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



i|For further discussions of Professor Vanuxem's life and work see LaBorde's History 

 S. C. College, 1874, Revised Edi., pp. 138-143; Silliman's Journal of Science, Mav, 1848, pp. 

 445-446. 



