GEOLOGKlAI. AND XATURAI> HISTOKY SUKVEYS. o 



report submitted to the legislature in November, 1855. This, owing 

 largely to the negligence of the State printer, was not published 

 until more tlian two years later. 



Tlie api^ropriations being exhausted, Professor Tuomey resumed 

 ])is vrork at the university in 1850, tliough with the intention of de- 

 voting his leisure tiuie to tlie survey as before. His Avork was un- 

 fortu.nately cut sliort by liis death, whicii took place on March 30, 

 1857. .Vfter his death Dr. J. W. Mallet undertook the task of edit- 

 ing and bringing out the long-delayed report. It was found that 

 part of the manuscript was missing, some of it was incomplete, and 

 thus a large amount of valuable material was lost to the State and to 

 science. In September, 1858, the report, the second biennial, ap- 

 ])eared, accompanied by another map of the State more detailed than 

 the first. The sur\ey was discontinued after Pi-ofessor Tuomey's 

 death. 



Expenses. — By ]av\- the salary of the State geologist was fixed at 

 $2,500 a year, and an appropriation of $10,000 was made for assist- 

 ance and incidental expenses, thus bringing the total cost of the 

 survey, during the two years of continuation after the passage of the 

 act, up to i^l 5,000. 



SECOND (;E0L0(UCAL SUKVKV UXDEK ErGENI<: A. SMrril, 1S7:'.-J.SS2. 



O rgaii'ization. — I^pon the reorganization of the University of 

 Alabama in 1871 tlie board of regents again took the initiative in re- 

 establishing the survey by requiring the professor of geology to de- 

 vote as much time in traveling over the State, and making exami- 

 nations and collections in geology, as Avould be consistent v/ith his 

 other duties. In pursuance of this ordinance. Prof. Eugene A. 

 Smith, then j^rofessor of geology in the university, at his own ex- 

 ])onse. j)assed a part of his vacation in 1871 in the examination of 

 certain Tertiary deposits in Clarke, Washington, and Choctaw 

 counties. The subject of a State geological survey Avas brought 

 before the legislature of 1872-73, and the f(jllowing act passed: 



An act to rfvivii niid complete the gpolosical and a^riculliiiMl sin-vcy of Ihp Slatp of 



.\Ia!)ania. 



Wliereiis by nn act of the general assonibl.v approved Jauiiur.v 4, 184S, and 

 an act approved February 3, 1854, a geological and agricultxu'al survey was 

 instituted and pro.secuted for some .vears, with groat advantage to tbe people 

 of the State ; and 



Whereas the said survey was left iucoiiijilcti' by \\w dcatli ol' Prof. Micli;icl 

 Tuomey, State geologist ; and 



Whereas Dr. Eugene A. Smidi, professoi- of nniioralogy and geology in tlu' 

 T'niversity of Alabama, is required by ordinance of the board of regents of 

 said univei-sity to devote a portion of his time and labor to a geological ex- 



