36 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



So far as can be learned from the annual reports no action was 

 taken by the legislature on this recommendation, and it was not 

 until 1874, on the discontinuance of the survey, that final steps were 

 taken by the passage of an act, a transcript of which is given below : 



An act to provide for the preservation of the raatorial of the geological survey of Cali- 

 fornia. 



The people of the Utate of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as folloics: 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the State geologist to deliver to the presi- 

 dent of the University of California, Berkeley, in this State, all instruments, 

 accoutrements, furniture, property, maps, books, drawings, manuscripts, notes, 

 engravings, lithographic stones, wood cuts, field notes, and other material of 

 every description and nature belonging or appertaining to the geological survey 

 of California ; such surrender and delivery to be made without delay. 



Sec. 2. The regents of the Uni\ersity of California shall safely keep and pre- 

 serve, at tlie said university, all the property and material referred to in section 

 1 of this act, until such time as the legislature may direct otherwise. 



Sec. 3. Tlie sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 

 general fund not otherwise appropriated, to pay the necessary cost of arrang- 

 ing, packing, transporting, and delivering the said property and material; and 

 the controller shall draw his warrant or warrants for sucli purpose, not to 

 exceed said sum of $5,000, when directed to do so by the State board of ex- 

 aminers, and the treasurer shall pay the same. 



Sec. 4. The regents of said university shall keep on hand and offer for sale 

 all volumes of reports and maps published by said geological survey ; they may 

 also, as soon as the present supply of reports and maps is exhausted, cause any 

 portion of the same to be republished and sold at the prices now provided or 

 that may be hereafter provided by law; Provided, That said republication shall 

 be done without cost to the State; Provided further, That the proceeds of the 

 sale of all such maps and reports, over and above the cost of publication, shall 

 be paid in to the State treasurer and by him credited to the school fund of tlie 

 State. 



Sec. 5. This act shall t;ike effect immediately. 



Approved March 27, 3S74. 



This act w^as preceded by the following: 



Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 60, requesting Professor Whitney to return to <.,'ali- 

 fornia all speclnaens collected by him. Adopted March 25, 1874. 



Resolved hy the u-ssemhly, the senate concurring, That Professor Whitiiey, late 

 State geologist, be and he is hereby requested to return to the State of California 

 all specimens collected by him during his official term as such State geologist, 

 and that they be placed in possession of the faculty of the State University, for 

 the use and benefit of State University. 



Expenses. — The appropriations for the survey, as made by tiie 

 various legislatures, were as follows. 1860, $20,000; 1860-61, $15,000; 

 1861-62, $15,000; 1862-63, $20,000; 1863-64, $24,600; 1865-66, 

 $30,000; 1867-68, nothing; 1869-70, $73,000; 1871-72, $48,000; total, 

 $245,600. 



To which must be added the $13,000 mentioned by Whitney in his 

 report for 1871 as having been received from the sale of publications, 



