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Administration. — Under the act of 1851 Dr. J. G. Norwood was 

 appointed State geologist and J., H. McChesne3\ Henry Pratten. 

 Anthony Varner, and A. H. Worthen, assistants. In March, 1858, 

 A. H. Worthen became State geologist, and H. M. Bannister, F. H. 

 Bradley, E. T. Cox, Henry Engelmann, H. C. Freedman, H. A, 

 Green, J. H, McChesney, and Frank Snow, assistants in geology, 

 with W. Billington, topograi:>her. Leo Lesquereux, F. B. Meek, J. S. 

 Newberry, and Orestes St. John were assistants in paleontology.* 



According to the terms of the law, assistants were appointed only 

 with the consent of tlie governor, auditor, and treasurer. The sal- 

 aries paid the directors varied at different periods from $2,000 to 

 $3,000 a year; those of the assistants in geology, from $800 to $1,000; 

 and those of the paleontologists from $1,200 to $1,800. Topograph- 

 ers received but $500 a j^ear. 



Museum: — Section IV of the act of 1851 called for the making of 

 collections to be delivered to the secretary of state, who should " cause 

 them to be properly arranged in a cabinet and deposited in some 

 apartment in or convenient to the capitol." It was stipulated also 

 that the collection should be sufficiently large to furnish specimens 

 to all institutions of learning within the State empowered to confer 

 degrees in the arts and sciences. In 1873 this clause, as noted, was 

 so amended as to include the State Normal Schools, the Industrial 

 University at Champaign, and all chartered institutions of science 

 located in the State and which published theii' proceedings and kept 

 up a regular system of exchanges with other like institutions. 



Publications. — Doctor Norwood remained in charge of the survey 

 until the spring of 1858, during which time he published two bro- 

 chures, the first in connection with Henry Pratten in 1855, which 

 consisted of 77 pages of text and three plates. This appeared in the 

 Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The 

 second, entitled Abstract of a Eeport on Illinois Coals, with de- 

 scription and analyses, and a general notice of the coal fields, con- 

 tained 93 pages of text and was published in Springfield in 1857. 



Under Worthen's administration the first and second volumes of 

 the final report were published in 1866, the third in 1868, the fourth 

 in 1870, the fifth in 1873, the sixth in 1875, the seventh in 1883, and 

 the eighth in 1890. These volumes contained detailed reports of all 

 the counties of the State and as much of the paleontology as the time 

 and means at the disposal of the director enabled him to complete. 



' The statements made on p. 43 of Survey Bulletin No. 405, relative to E. O. Ulriclj, is 

 somewhat misleading, since the survey came to an end in 1872, as noted. It was not until 

 1885 that Mr. Ulrich was employed by Mr. Worthen, then curator of the State Museum, 

 to complete volume 8 of the reports of the defunct organization, an appropriation for 

 which hud been hande by the legislature of that year. 



