GEOLOGIC.-M. AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEYS. 231 



of which C. B, Grant was chairman. Mr. Grant reported April 12 

 with an amendment. The hitter was concurred in, and, after a fur- 

 ther amendment, the resolution was lost b}^ a vote of 31 to 46. 



The house having by formal vote on ISIarch 18 refused to provide 

 for the publication of the results of the survey, the director, on 

 March 21, filed his resignation with the board, and on April 20 

 turned over, at a meeting in Detroit, all property of the survey re- 

 maining in his hands, and made a final settlement.^ 



It may be added that tlie house bill amending the law of 18C9, in- 

 troduced after various references and amendments, was passed April 

 11, concurred in by the senate April 12, and approved hj the gov- 

 ernor April 17. The effect of the changes introduced was to lodge 

 the entire directorship in the hands of the geological board; to 

 eliminate all investigations in paleontology, topography, physical 

 geography, and climate ; and it provided that the final report should 

 not exceed three octavo volumes, and that they " shall not contain, 

 in any considerable extent, compilations and extracts of or from 

 books heretofore published." ^ The appropriation of $8,000 annually 

 was continued and made payable until the completion of said survey.' 



THIRD SURVEY UNDER BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 1871-1900. 



Orgayiization. — Under the board of directors authorized by the 

 law of 18G9, Dr. Carl Rominger, of Ann Arbor, was appointed di- 

 rector of the survey in 1871 and served until 1885. During the first 

 year of his incumbency Major Brooks and Professor Pumpelly were 

 continuing their researches in the western part of the Upper Penin- 

 sula, and for a time he w^ as assisted by " several young men of the 

 university who were recommended, * * * but none of them 



» This resignation, as the writer [Doctor Wiucbell] views the history of the time in the 

 perspecfivp of 16 years, appears to have been ill advised. The director, sure that he was 

 right, and about to suffer wron^ at the hands of others, should have held his post ; and 

 the geological board, under whose sanction every stf^p had been taken, and who were 

 ultima toly responsible for everything, should not have accepted the resignation, but 

 Should have stood in a manly way to the defence of the director and the plan of the sur- 

 vey. The house might not. perhaps, have been induced to take difTeront action, thougii 

 that Is by no moans probable ; but in the conflict, some discussion would have ensued, 

 and some facts cunningly bidden would have been brought to light. I'ersonal injustice 

 would have thus been averted or duly exposed, and the true Interests of the State would 

 not probably have b'en compromised as they were. The resignation was prompted by 

 disgust at the tricks of demagoguery, and a desire to avoid the distractions of a confiict. 

 The act involved the practical loss of the results of several years labor, and left a moral 

 Impression which time was not destined to efface. 



* It is not entirely clear what features in the proposed plan this prohibition was aimed 

 at. The cl.MUse quoted in the report would make it appear that the requirement to com- 

 pile and tabulate all information useful to the iron and copper industries was the of- 

 fensive provision : but tiie discu.ssion led to the belief that it aimed also at compilations 

 •f meteroloiriciil and topographical dnta. 



•The director's estimate of .$61,300 for the completion of the field work was tiought 

 an astounding extravagance; nevertheless, the State In If! years has already expended 

 $128,000 besides appropriations for publications. 



