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MASSACHUSETTS. 



I'age. 

 Causes leading to establishment of first survey; Resolutions provliliug 



for survey; Resolutions relative to distribution of reports; Resolution 

 providing for printing nevv^ edition of reports: Appointment of Edward 

 Hitchcock, State geologist; Administration and personnel; Ex- 

 penses ; Publications ; Resolution of 1837 providing for renewal of sur- 

 vey and for publicatioii and distribution of reports ; Administration ; 

 Expenses ; Benefits ; Resolution relative to survey of public lands of 

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MICHIGAN. 



First survey under Doughiss Houghton; Act of establishment, 1837; 

 Act witli reference to improvenient of salt springs, 1842; appointment 

 of Douglass Houghton ; First year of survey, 1837 ; Personnel ; Second 

 >ear of survey, 1838; Salaries and personnel; Financial statement rela- 

 tive to salt wells; Pi-oceedlngs relative to salt spring lands; Summary 

 of report of 1838; Third year of survey, 1839; Summary of reports; 

 Fourth year of survey, 1840; Abolishment of zoological and botanical 

 departments ; Summary of report ; Fifth year of survey, 1841 ; Resolu- 

 tions I'elative to internal improvements and copper smelting; Sunmiary 

 of report; Sixth year of survey, 1842; Financial statement; Seventh 

 year of survey, 1843 ; Message of Governor Barry with reference to ; 

 Summary of annual report ; Eighth year of survey, 1844 ; Message of 

 Governor Barry relative thereto ; Failure of appropriations to suppoj't 

 survey ; Plans for lineal survey in cooperation with the National Gov- 

 ernment ; Ninth year of survey, 1845 ; Failure of appropriations ; Sum- 

 mary of reports ; Financial statement ; Survey after 1845 ; Governor's 

 message relative thereto ; Report of committee ; Resolution of 1846 rela- 

 tive to mining operations and to collections made by survey ; Criticisms 

 by Alexander Wiuchell ; Importance of Houghton's work : Survey of 

 1859-60 under Alexander Wiuchell ; Act of establishment ; Joint reso- 

 lution of ISfiO; Amendment of act of 1869; Administration and person- 

 nel; Appointment of Alexander Wiuchell as State geologist; Salaries: 

 Summary of results; Survey in 1860; Personnel and salaries; Sum- 

 mary of results; First biennial I'eport of progress; Financial statement 

 for 1859-60 ; Survey from 1861-1869 ; Recommendations of Go\ ernor 

 Wisner; Financial statement of 1861; Itinerary of the State geologist; 

 Appropriations for 1863-64 with reference to salt borings ; Reference 

 in 1865 by Governor Crapo to survey ; Address of Wiuchell before the 

 State legislature; Before State AgricuUural Society; Work by Wiuchell 

 in the Grand Traverse region ; Bill for reestablishment of survey ; 

 Geological survey of 1869 ; Reference by Governor Baldwin to work of 

 survey; Appointment under act of March 26, 1869; Appointment of 

 John H. Forster to investigate the coi^per region ; Appointment of T. B. 

 Brooks to investigate the iron regions ; Sunnnary of report of progress 

 for 1869 ; Personnel and expenses, 1869 ; Geological survey in 1870 ; Plan 

 of operations; Forster replaced by R. Pumpelly; Hostility to Pumpelly; 

 Geological suiwey in 1871; Recommendations by Governor Baldwin 

 relative to survey ; Bill relative to appropriation for publications ; In- 

 fluences unfavorable to Avork of survey; Reports of committees relative 

 to survey; Directorship of survey placed in hands of geological board ; 



