OEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 45 



COLORADO. 



Within the limits of this history no successful attempt at the es- 

 tablishment of a geological survey seems to have been made. It is 

 true that in 1872 the territorial legislature showed a slight realiza- 

 tion of the possible value of such a survey, and a willingness to profit 

 by it provided it cost them nothing. The following is the text of an 

 Rct passed with this in view : 



Be it enactrd hy the council and Jionsc of rciJjxs-cntativGS of Colorado Ter- 

 ritory: 



Section 1. That the governor of the Territory is hereby authorized and em- 

 powered to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of tJie legislative coun- 

 cil, a territorial geologist, who shall be commissioned by the governor, reside in 

 the Territory, and liold his office for the term of two years froui the date of his 

 appointment. 



Sec. 2, No compensation for services, nor for any expenses whatCNcr, shall be 

 paid by the Territory to or for the said territorial geologist. 



Sec. 3. The territorial geologist shall report the resnlt of his surveys and ob- 

 servations, made under and by virtue of the commission provided for in section 

 1 of this act, to the governor of the Territory, to be submitted to the next 

 legislative assembly, on or before the first day of January, A. D. 1874. 



Sec 4. This act shall take efl'ect and be in force from and after its p r;ssage. 



Approved February 9, 1872, 



It is said' that under this law J. Alden Smith was appointed 

 State geologist in 1874 and 1881: Ernest LeNeve Foster in 1883; 

 J. Alden Smith again in 1885 ; Fred G. Buckley in 1887 ; George E. 

 Kedzie in 1889 and 1893; Thomas A. Ilicard in 1897 and 1899; John 

 W. Finch in 1901 and 1903 ; and B. A. Langridge in 1906. Xaturally, 

 in \ iew of section 2, however able may have been the various officials, 

 little was accomplished. Three or four brief reports are said to have 

 been published, but these have long since passed out of print, and are 

 unavailable for reference. 



CONNECTICUT. 



SURVEY UNDER J. G. PEKOIVAL AND C. U. SHEPARD, 1835-1842. 



In the annual message of Governor Edwards of Connecticut to 

 the State legislature of 1835 there occurs the following relative to the 

 establishment of a geological survey: 



The mineralogical treasures which have been developed within a few years 

 and which are constantly coming to light in different parts of our country give 

 us reason to believe that we have not as yet availed ourselves to the extent that 

 we might of this source of wealth, and suggests the expediency of a more syste- 

 matic examination than has hitherto taken place. In some instances this has 

 been done under the public pati-onage and by public authority. An examination 

 of the kind in our State might lead to some important discoveries. An accurate 



» Bulletin 465, U. S. Geological Survey, 1911, p. 21. 



