78 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



to convince the South thnf State rights too strictly interpreted meant dis- 

 integration of the Union. Acceding to his wishes I closed my connection with 

 the State board of agriculture and with the second Indiana geological survey. 



THIKD GEOLOGICAL SUBVEY UNDER E. T. COX, ,fOHN COLLETT, AND 

 OTHERS, 1869-1900. 



In 1869 the subject of a renewal of the survey came before the 

 legislature and the act passed of which the following is a transcript ; 



An act providing ror a geological survey and for tlie collection and preservation of B 

 geological and inincraloglcal cabinet of the natural history of the State of Indiana, 

 creating tlie office of State geologist, defining his duties, and fixing his salary. 



Section 1, Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, 

 That a department of geology and natural science is hereby established in 

 connection with, and under tlie control and direction of, the Indiana State board 

 of agriculture, for tlie collection and dissemination of information in relation 

 to geological and other scientitic investigations to be made, as hereinafter pro- 

 vided for, for the promotion of agriculture, mining, the arts, and manufactures. 



Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That the governor is hereby authorized to 

 appoint a suitable person as State geologist to take' charge of said department; 

 and said geologist shall hold his office for a term of two years and till his 

 Buccessor shall be appointed as aforesaid, with an annual compensation of 

 $1,800, to be paid in quarterly payments ; and, in addition to his salary, said 

 geologist shall be paid also for the necessary traveling expenses incurred while 

 engaged in prosecitting the field surveys, and for chemical reagents used in the 

 analytical work. 



Sec. III. And be it further enacted, That said State geologist shall have a 

 thorough practical knowledge of geology and analytical chemistry, and shall 

 establish his office at Indianapolis, in the State of Indiana, in a room or rooms 

 furnished to him, free of charge, by the Indiana State board of agriculture; 

 and he shall be reipiired also to supply himself, free of cost to the State, with 

 all the apparatus necessary to fit up an analytical laboratory adapted to making 

 chemicnl analyses of soils, ores, metals, mineral waters, and other substances 

 that may be thought of value or general interest to the citizens of the State. 



Sec. IV. And be it further enacted, That said State geologist shall, from time 

 to time make a survey of a portion of the State, in order to be able to com- 

 plete a thorough geological survey of the whole State as soon as consistent 

 with his other duties as herain defined ; and it shall be his duty also to collect, 

 properly label, and arrange in the agricultural rooms specimens of the ores, 

 coals, building stones, clays, soils, and organic remains, quadrupeds, birds, 

 reptiles, fi.shes, Crustacea, mollusca, insects, and all olher objects of natural 

 history peculiar to the State, and, as far as prncticable, of other States and 

 countries also. 



Sec. v. And be it further enacted. That the State geologist shall also be 

 required to make annual reports to the Indiana State board of agriculture 

 embracing the full results of his labors for each year, which reports shall be 

 published along with the proceedings of the said State board of agriculture. 



Sec. VI. And be it further enacted. That, in order to carry the provisions of 

 this act into effect, the sum of $5,000 be, and the same is hereby, annually 

 appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, 

 and placed in charge of the Indiana State board of agriculture for their dis- 



