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i:egIous of Piscataquis County, making similar investigations; thence to the 

 Penobscot IMver and up the east branch thereof to its head waters; thence across 

 to the xllleguash River or otlier tributary of the St. John, and down said river 

 to Fort Kent; thus visiting a section hitherto unknown to scientific exploration. 



The reports of the survey submitted to the governor under the 

 title Preliminai'Y Report upon the Natural History and Geology of 

 the State of Maine, were published in the reports of the secretary of 

 the board of agriculture for 18G1 and 1862, comprising 356 and 447 

 pages, respectively. As might be expected from the organization of 

 the survey, these embraced a general report on the natural history, 

 agriculture, and geology of the State, and a special report upon th& 

 physical geograi)hy, agricultural capabilities, geology, botany, and 

 zoology of the wild lands. Geological maps of the northern and 

 eastern portions of the State, in black and white, accompanied these 

 reports, A large map (colored) was also deposited by Professor 

 Hitchcock in the statehouse at Augusta. This map furnished the 

 data afterwards utilized by Walter Wells in his report on the hydrog- 

 raphy of the State. 



Collections and librm'y. — ^The intention of the various acts estab- 

 lishing both surveys was, as is apparent, to form collections which 

 should he sent to the various institutions of learning. This inten- 

 tion was only partly carried out, however, and, so far as can ba 

 learned, those collections which were made by the Jackson survej 

 liave been largely ruined, with the exception of the one in Colbj 

 College and the smaller one in Bowdoin College, as already noted. 

 The collections made by the several members of the Holmes-Hitch- 

 cock survey were deposited in the rooms of the Portland Society of 

 Natural History, and from these suites of specimens were to be 

 selected for presentation to the various colleges and other institutions 

 of learning within the State, but this was never done; and unfor- 

 tunately, the collections were lost in the fire that destroyed the so- 

 ciety's buildings in 1866. A few of the fossils which had been with- 

 drawn for study are now in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York. No library was formed in connection with this 

 survey. 



Expenses, — The expenses of the survey, other than those of publi- 

 cation, appear to have been met in full by the appropriations men- 

 tioned — $3,000 a year for two years. 



PuhUcatio7is.— The following list includes all the publications of 

 the various surveys: 



First Report on the Geology of the Public liands, belonging jointly to the 

 States of' Massachusetts and Maine. By C. T. Jackson. Sen. Doc. No. 89. Bos- 

 ton, IMarch 25, 1837. 47 pp. 



Second Annual Report on the Geology of the Public Lands, belonging to the 

 two States of ]\Tas:=<achusetts and INIalrif^. By C. T. Jackson. Boston, 1838. 

 House Doc. No. 70. 92 pp. 



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