TABLE OF CONTENTS. XV 



Page, 

 flbolisliiiis survey ; Kt-solution velativ*^ to publication and di.sti'ibution : 

 Act of 1871 reestal)lisluns;- tlie survey; Administratiou ; Methods of 

 procedure; Publications; Expenses 464 



Survey of ISoS under 1>. F. Sbuuiard; Act of establisbmeut ; Administra- 

 tion and personnel; Salaries; Methods; Museum; Change of director; 

 Suspension of survey ; Resolution of 1S61 relative to survey ; Publica- 

 tions of survey ; Expenses ; Survey under J. W. Glenn and S. B. Buck- 

 ley ; Act of establishment; Administration and personnel; Results of: 

 Expenses; Publications; Survey of ISSS to 1892 under E. T. Dumble; 

 Act of establishment ; Administration and personnel ; Preliminary work : 

 Results accomplished from year to year; P^xpenses 471 



VERMONT. 



Events loading to establishment of first survey; Act of establislnueiit. 

 1844; Act for comi)letion of survey, 1858; Apixiintment of Ch.irles B. 

 Adams; Administration and perstmnel ; Salaries; Resolution relative 

 to survey property; Death of Adams and ai)pointment of Zadock 

 Thompson; Death of Thompson and appointment of Augustus Yoiuig; 

 Expenses; Survey under Edward Hitchcock, 1856-18G0; Act of estab- 

 lishment; Administration; Publications; Results; Expenses; Survey 

 under Hnger, Cutting, Perry, and Perkins, 1864-1900 496 



VIRGINTA. 



Events leading to establishusent of survey: Act of establishment; Or- 

 ganization ; Appointment of W. B. Rogers ; Administration ; Expenses ; 

 Publications ."07 



WISCONSIN. 



First survey under Daniels and Percival; Act of establishment; Adminis- 

 tration; Personnel; Expenses; Survey of 1857-1860 under James Hall, 

 Ezra Carr. and Edward Daniels; Act of establishment; Administration ; 

 Unsatisfactory conditions; Supplemental act of 1860; Hall made chief 

 of commission ; Employment of Charles Whittlesey ; Repeal of law 

 establishing survey; Expenses; Publications; Hall correspondence; 

 Survey under Lapham, Wight, and Chamberliu, 1873-1879 ; Act of 

 establishment; Administration and personnel; Methods of procedure; 

 Amendment to act of 187.3; Expenses; Collections and museum; Acts 

 relative to publication and distribution of final report; Acts relating 

 to reports 512 



APPF.XDIX 1. 



Suniniiiry of prim-ipal items relating to State surveys, including tabular 

 statement giving dates, names of chief geologists, and expenses of all 

 State .surveys existing prior to 1900 537 



APrFNllIX L". 



Tlie Xortliei'ii Tran.scont ineiit;il Sui'\ey under ifni)haol I'umpelly 5.39 



Index 545 



