62 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES ISTATIQ-NAL MUSEUM. 



ores, rocks, and woods selected for the Paris Exposition. By a reso- 

 lution dated FebruniT 26, 1877, tlie edition of the report of the geol- 

 ogists was fixed at 5,000 copies. 



Museum. — Although the wording of the original act would seem 

 to have contemplated the formation of a museum, no definite steps 

 in that direction appear to have been taken. In the final resolution 

 for the abolition of the survey it was provided that all the ma- 

 terial of the survey,' aside from live stock and camp equipage, slioidd 

 be turned over to the commissioner of agriculture. 



THIED GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNDER J. W. SPENCER AND AV. S. YEATES, 



1S89-1!)00, 



From the time of cessation of work by Doctor Little until Novem- 

 ber, 1889, the State survey seems to have been dormant. On the 

 12th of that month the following act was passed and approved: 



An act to ivvive tlie office of Stsite goolooist, and to provklc for a geological. miii<M'alog'ical. 

 and physical survey of the State of Oeorgia, and for other purposes. 



Skction I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the oflice 

 of State e-eologist is hereby revived, and the governoi', as soon as practicable 

 after the passnge of this act, shall appoint, with the consent of the advisory- 

 board, a competent person to this office, who shall have a thorongh, scientific, 

 and practical knowledge of the science of geology and mineralogy, and who is 

 not connected with any school or college as an instructor. The State geologist 

 shall enter upon the duties of his office on the 1st day of July, 1890, and shall 

 hold until removed by the appointing power for inefficiency, incompetency, or mis- 

 conduct, or until the office is abolished by the general assembly. The office of 

 the State geologist shall be at the seat of government. 



Sec. it. Be it further cnnetcd. That there shall be an advisory board, con- 

 sisting of the governor of the State (who shall be president of the board), the 

 commissioner of agriculture, the State school commissioner, the State treasurer, 

 the comptroller general, and the attorney general. Four members present at 

 any meeting shall constitute a qiionim for the transaction of any business. 



Sec. III. Be it further enacted, That two competent assistant State geologists 

 shall be chosen by the advisory board, vrho may be removed at any time, by the 

 appointing power, for incompetency, inefficiency, or misconduct. It shall be the 

 duty of the State geologist and his assisti'.nts to divide the State into three 

 geological sections, as nearly equal in area as may be expedient, to be known 

 as North Georgia, Middle Georgia, and South Georgia geological sections; the 

 northern section shall extend from the St;ite line southward to the thirty-fourth 

 degree of latitude; the middle section shall extend from that degree southward 

 to the thirty-third degree of latitude; the southern section shall extend from 

 the last-mentioned degree to the southern boundary of the State line ; the survey 

 and exploration of each of said sections shall commence simultaneously by said 

 State geologist and his assistants; and .$1,000 of the foregoing appropriation, or 

 so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to each of said sections 

 for an outfit and necessary expenses incident to the prosecution of the work in 

 each section. So soon as a general outline of geological survey of the entire 

 State shall have been made, the State geologist shall enter upon one of these 



