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Brouguiart's Ferus; 2, Milne Edward's Corals and Classificatiou of Auiiual King- 

 dom ; 3, (English) Woodward's Classification of the Mollusca ; 4, A suggestive 

 table of my own of Divisions and Subdivisions of Time and Vertical Space ; 5, 

 a map of Wyandotte Cave, after carrying my barometer through and obtaining 

 a topographical survey record from the proprietor. 



I sent every specimen collected, unless a duplicate was needed, for further 

 examination and description to Indianapolis, where I suppose they can still be 

 found in the State collection. One remarkable specimen I may mention was 

 found, on being weighed at the nearest Adams Express otlice, to be 153 pounds 

 and about 3 feet across its base.* It was the framework or skeleton of a single 

 community of polyp first described by Hall as Favistella stella [sic], but consid- 

 ered by Edwards and Haine as Coliimnaria alvcolata. It Is just at the junction 

 between lower and upper Silurian, and fine specimens can be found at the deep 

 cut near Madison, Ind. But this large specimen had become detached and 

 rolled to the foot of a considerable hill. It being in the form of a cone we 

 turned it with its face or base upon two rails, and aided by my assistant, Mr, 

 James Patterson, of Jeffersonville, Ind., we carried it to the top of the hill, 

 where we found a wagon going to the railroad station, on which we loaded it. 



Later State geologists added to the State collection or museum at Indianapolis, 

 which was in the geological rooms of Prof. Collett in the old statehouse, now, 

 however, I believe pulled down. 



The $5,000 appropriation for the survey was expended for per diem of the 

 several officers and employees for traveling expenses, transportation of min- 

 er^ils and fossils, analysis, printing and engraving report, etc. An accurate and 

 separate account was kept and rendered at brief intervals to the State board 

 of agriculture. I remember the secretary expressing his astonishment that I 

 should have gone so much into detail as to mention each 5 cents' worth of milk 

 obtained at the farm houses, if we happened to camp near one. 



The entire sum was, I think, the result of a single appropriation, and as far 

 as I remember included the printing and engraving. Of this, however, I am 

 not quite certain, for I remember when I was in Camp Morton (see p. 302 of the 

 report) as colonel of the 60th Indiana Volunteers, guarding the 4,000 prisoners 

 taken at Fort Donelson, I called on Governor Morton with reference to the illus- 

 trations (wood cuts from my sketches), and I think obtained some addition 

 from a contingent fund for the engraver. 



Benefits. — 1. The analyses of the soils; the disenchantment of individuals 

 who had " married a gold mine," by proving to them that it was a bed of sul- 

 phur and iron ; the calculations made for some who desired to sink shafts, and 

 actually found coal within a few feet of the depth indicated (this occurred at 

 West Franklin and elsewhere) ; the dissuasion from expending money for an 

 artesian well near an anticlinal axis; and much information of a similar char- 

 acter imparted to the citizens of Indiana during the survey and by the pub- 

 lication of the report, may perhaps entitle this survey to the claim of having 

 benefited the citizens of Indiana. 



2. As regards the benefit to science, although perhaps not much that was 

 new may have been presented, yet this survey paved the way for others, in 

 which fine block coal, porcelain clay, and clay for terra cotta were pointed 

 out, etc. Had more time and means been at our disposal I think we could 

 have accomplished work that would have been creditable, but the war inter- 

 fered for a time with all sucii pursuits, and I was invited by our war governor 

 (the late Senator Morton) to take a military commission and aid in endeavoring 



■ For a fnllor description see p. 49 of the Report on Franklin County. 



