GEOLOGICAL AND NATUEAL HISTORY SURVEYS. .157 



Expenses. — Twenty-five hundred dollars was approjiriated for the 

 carrying out of tliis survey. Data are not avaihible to show the 

 amount actually expended. It is stated, liow^ever/ that eacli member 

 of the biological corps received the sum of $350 for his services. 



Benefits. — As above noted, Mafcsaehusetts was the first State to 

 begin and carry to completion a geological and natural history 

 survey at the public expense. The benefits can not be calculated in 

 terms of money. From both State and national standpoints these 

 may well be considered invaluable. The example set was speedily 

 folloAved, and by 1840, or betvseen the time of the beginning and 

 conclusion of the Massachusetts survey, 18 other States of the Union 

 had commenced similar investigations. 



SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS OF 31 ATX E AND MASSACHUSETTS UNDER G. T. 



JACKSON, 1 S3 7-1 838. 



As already noted (see under Maine, p. 129), Massachusetts under- 

 took, with Maine, a joint survey of the public lands in 1836. The 

 following is the text of the law : 



Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts. 



Rcmlvc(], That the governor, with advice of the council, be hereby authorized 

 to employ some suitable person or poisons to make a geological survey of any 

 lands in Maine where such survey, together v.ith the various observations which 

 the surveyors will have opportunity to make, will i)robably lead to a more ac- 

 curate knowledge of the worth of the public domain. 



Resolved. That the governor and council may, if they deem it expedent, ad- 

 vise and cooperate with the government of the State of Maine in relation to 

 60 ch survey. 



RcsolmJ, That his excellency the governor may draw his warrant for what- 

 ever exiiense shall be incurred in tlie accomplishment of the survey leconi- 

 mended in the two preceding resolutions. 



Passed ISlavch 21, 1S36. 



Under this act Dr. C. T, Jackson received the appointment and 

 made two reports, dated 1837 and 1838. (See under Maine.) 



In 1874, in response to a memorial from the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences urging " a new and thorough scientific survey 

 of the Commonwealth," the legislature referred the question to the 

 board of education with a request that they " consider the same and 

 report thereon at the next general court." The board of education 

 in its turn appointed Gardner G. Hubbard, Rev. A. A. Miner, and 

 Rev. Philips Brooks a subcommittee to investigate and report. The 

 subcommittee entered fully into a consideration and rendered a 

 comprehensive report on December 1, 1874, which was printed in 

 the form of House Document No. 40 of that year. It appears that 



* House Document No. 40, 1875. 



