GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 137 



First Report on the Geology of the State of Maine. By C. T. Jackson, 

 Augusta, 1837. 127 pp. 



Second Report on the Geolopry of the State of Maine. C. T. .Tackson, Aufiusta, 

 1838. IGS pp. 



Third Annual Report on the Geo]<).t?y of the State of Maine. C. T. Jackson. 

 Augusta, 1839. 275 pp. 



Preliminary Report upon the JNatural History and Geologj' of the State of 

 Maine. ISGl. E. Holnie.s and Chas. H. Plitchcock. 458 pp. 



Second Annual Report upon the Natural History and Geology of the State of 

 Maine. 1SG2. E. Holmes and C. H. Hitchcock. 447 pp. 



Mx\RYLAND.' 



FIRST GEOLOGICAL SUR^rEY UNDER J. T. DUCATEL, 18?.ii-1842. 



0rgani2atwn. — The inception of the first geological survey of 

 Maryland dates from 1833, when resolutions relative to a State map 

 and geological survey were passed by the general assembly upon the 

 6th and 16th of March. Several earlier attempts looking toward the 

 same results had been made, but were all defeated. 



The particular resolutions referred to above seem to have been 

 the outgrowth of an agitation by Messrs. William Patterson, Robert 

 Gilmore, and the Maryland Academy of Sciences and Literature. 

 A series of resolutions and a memorial bearing upon the subject 

 were drawn up by the gentlemen mentioned and transmitted to the 

 senate, and by that body referred to the house of delegates, in the 

 following terms : 



Januahy 19, 1833. 

 Oentlemen of the House of Delegates: 



We beg leave to refer to your consideration the accompanying memorial of 

 William Patterson and others, as a .survey of the State has been made at the 

 present sessj<m an object of inquiry in your honorable body. The memorial 

 now transmitted being designed to lead to a development of the mineral re- 

 sources of the State, and to a collection of information of great interest to the 

 general good and to individual enterprise. We respectfully submit it for the 

 special attention of your honorable body. 



By order, 



(Signed* .1. H. Nicholso-n. Vlerk. 



In pursuance of the same object, a memorial of the Maryland 

 Academy of Science and Literature was also brought before the 

 house of delegates, on Tuesday, March 5, 1833, by Mr. Louis W. 

 Jenkins: "Recommending that a geological survey of the State may 

 be made under public authority." This was made the subject of a 

 " special order " for March 16, and at that session the report of the 

 f?enate relative thereto was read twice, concurred in, and the " reso- 

 lution therein contained was assented to and sent to the senate." 



> Muinly from manuscripts by P. R. Uhler. 



