94 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



home aud reform school, aud to each person who has furnished gratuitous 

 material for publication in the report ; 25 copies to the State university, the 

 State agricultural college, the State geologist, and the State library ; five copies 

 to the assistant and chemist of the survey; two copies each to the institutions 

 for the deaf imd dumb, and blind, and both hospitals for the insane; 100 copies 

 to be placed in the hands of the governor and State geologist for distribution 

 to scientihc men and learned societies aud colleges beyond the limits of the 

 State ; the remaining copies to be placed in the hands of the secretary of state 

 and disposed of as the census board may direct. 



Sec. 5. That all acts or parts of acts in contravention of the provisions of 

 this act are hereby I'epealed. 



Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pub- 

 lication in the DaUy lotca State Register and the Daily Evening Statesman, 

 newspaijers published at Des Moines, Iowa. 



Approved April 13, ISTO. 



Personnel. — The personnel of the survey was limited to Dr. C. A. 

 White, State geologist; Orestes St. John, assistant geologist; and 

 Rush Emery, chemist. The appointment of assistants was bj' law in 

 the hands of the director of the survey. The salary of the State 

 geologist was fixed by the law of March 30, 1866, at $2,000 a year, 

 and that of the assistants at amounts not exceeding $1,500 a year. 



Museum and library. — The law of establishment required that all 

 specimens, drav.'ings. sketches, books, etc., obtained or made by the 

 State geologist, should become the property of the State. 



Expenses. — The total expense of the White survey, as indicated by 

 the appropriations, was as follows: For 1866 to 1868, $13,000;* for 

 1868 to 1870, $13,000 ( ?) ; for publications, $18,000. 



Puhlications. — Two reports of progress, under date of 1868, were 

 issued, and a two-volume final report of viiiJ-380 and viii-|-443 

 pages, under date of 1870, the edition authorized by the law of April 

 3, 1870, being limited to 3,000 copies, at a cost, as above noted, not 

 exceeding $1,800. The distribution of the volumes was also controlled 

 by the same law, to which reference may be made.' 



THIRD GEOLOGICAL SUKVEY UNDER SAMUEL CALVIN, 1892-1900. 



With the close of the White survey in 1870, geological work at the 

 expense of the State was discontinued until 1892, when it was again 

 taken up under authority of the following act: 



An act to provide for n geologlc.il survey of the State of Iowa. 



Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of loica: 

 Section 1. There is hereby created and established a geological survey for 

 the State of Iowa, which shall be under the direction and in charge of the 



» Doctor White informed the writer that some $2,000 of this first appropriation was un- 

 expended nnd returned to the Treasury. 



'The first annual report consisted of but three pages, and a "few" copies only issued. 

 The matter was, however, reprinted with the second annual, together with a number of 

 letters written by Doctor White for the newspapers and while In the field. 



