82 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.- 



Borden; Oiaiige County by Dr. M. N. Elrod and S. Mclntire; 

 VandenburQ-, Owen, Montgomery, and Clay counties by John Col 

 lett ; and a hydrographic survey of certain small lakes in the north 

 ern part of the State Vv-as r^iade and reported upon by Doctor Levette. 

 In 1877 Professor Cox made a survey of Wayne Comity, and in 

 1878 Harrison and Crawford counties were surveyed and reported 

 upon by Jolin CoUett. 



Under the act of 1879 John Collett was appointed statistician and 

 geologist, but with an appropriation of only $4,000 a year for the 

 work of both departments and only $505 of which was expended on 

 geology during the year 1879-80. G. K. Greene was appointed as 

 assistant geologist and made a survey of Monroe County. In 1880 

 Professor Collett made a surve}^ of Putnam County. 



Under the act of 1881 Mr. Collett was appointed by the governor 

 as chief geologist for a period of four years. As assistants in the field 

 he appointed Drs. A. J. Phinnej\ M. N. Elrod, and E. T. Brown. 

 To Doctor Phinney was assigned the survey of Delavv^are County ; to 

 Doctor Elrod, Bartholomew County; and to Doctor Brown, Fountain 

 County; the geologist in chief devoting himself to the survey of 

 Shelby County. 



In 1882 the force of field geologists was increased by the addition 

 of D. S. McCaslin, the assignments being as follows: To Doctor 

 Elrod, Decatur County; to Doctor Phinney, Randolph County; to 

 Mr. McCaslin, Jay County; and to the geologist in chief, Jasper 

 County. 



In 1883 Professor Collett spent a part of the summer in Posey 

 County, Doctor Brown being assigned to work in Morgan County, 

 Doctor Elrod in Eush County, Doctor Phinney in Grant County, 

 and Mr. McCaslin in Johnson County. Special assistants in 1883 

 were John M. Coulter, botanist; John N. Hurty, chemist; Fred. M. 

 Stein, conchologist ; Ealph S. Perry, entomologist; Fletcher M. Noe, 

 ornithologist and taxidermist; Oliver P. Hay, herpetologist; and 

 James Hall, C. A. White, and Leo Lesquereux, paleontologists. 

 Lesquereux, as paleobotanist, presented in that year an elaborate de- 

 scription of the fossil botany of the Indiana coal fields. 



During 1884 the department was left without funds through the 

 failure of the legislature to pass the necessary appropriation bill. 

 Doctor Collett, however, unwilling that the work should be sus- 

 pended, proposed to pay the current expenses of the assistants from 

 his private funds; $1,494.76 was thus advanced by Doctor Collett^ 

 who was subsequently reimbursed, however. Under these conditions 

 Doctor Brown surveyed the counties of Hamilton and Madison, and 

 Doctor Elrod, those of Fayette and Union. Professors Cope and 



