100 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Res'ults. — In a single report, a pamphlet of 192 pages, issued in 

 1866, are given reports discussing the climate as relating to health 

 and to various forms of disease, rainfall, and other meteorological 

 phenomena. As the legislature had prescribed work to be done in 

 each county, this volume had a special report on the geology of 

 Miami County, giving a section of the formations found therein and 

 investigating the questions of petroleum, iron, and coal. Major 

 Havi-n contributed reports on eight counties, though these were not 

 nearly as full as that of Miami, which appears to have been very 

 thoroughly examined as a typical region of the coal-measure epoch. 

 Briefer reports were made of Brown, Doniphan, Chase, Lyon, Linn, 

 Butler, Osage, and Morris counties. The Loess is recognized as oc- 

 curring in Lyon, Chase, and Morris counties, and also is spoken of 

 as occurring in the northwest corner of the State in the Republican 

 Valley. The locks of these three last-named counties are described 

 as Permian. Reference is made to drawings of sections and lists of 

 fossils, which were, however, never published, and no further appro- 

 priations were made for continuing the work. It is useless to dis- 

 cuss the reasons for this discontinuance, as the appropriation was 

 stopped before the report was distributed. Wlien it was finally is- 

 sued the work was severely criticized by geologists of the East, and 

 it would appear that it erred in making exact statements where only 

 approximations were possible, and in attempting too much by rapid 

 explorations in obedience to an unreasonable public demand for im- 

 mediate results. 



This survey died a natural death through the failure of the legis- 

 lature to make the necessar}' appropriations. It is stated that at 

 various times between 1866 and 1895 unsuccessful attempts were made 

 to revive it, bills for that purpose being introduced at nearly every 

 session of the legislature. It was not, however, until 1889 that any- 

 thing definite was actually accomplished, when a law was passed 

 under which the f^urvey at present in progress was actually organ- 

 ized in 1895. (See Bull. 465, U. S. Geological Survey.) 



Expenses. — The appropriations for the two surveys amounted to 

 $11,000. 



KENTUCKY. 



FIRST GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DAVID DALE OWENj 



1854-1800.^ 



Preliminary remarks. — In Collins's Historical Sketches of Ken- 

 tucky (vol. 1, p. 26), it is recorded that "lands were granted hj the 

 legislature, January 31st, 1811," at the nominal price of 10 cents an 



» From manuscript by Dr. Robert Peter, State chemist of Kentuclcy. 



