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Connection with other institutions. — The survey as organized had 

 110 official connection with other institutions, although Doctor Wads- 

 worth, during the period of his incumbency, was president of the 

 mining school at Houghton, and cases for collections, heat and light, 

 use of libraries, etc., were provided, rent free, on condition that cer- 

 tain assistance be rendered in the school by the employees of the 

 survey when needed, and when it did not interfere with their pro- 

 fessional duties on the survey. Cooperation was also arranged for 

 between the State and the United States survey. 



Museum. — Prior to Doctor Wadsworth's administration the sur- 

 vey had no permanent headquarters, and collections, if niade, were 

 soon scattered. Of the collections made prior to Professor AVright's 

 appointment none are stated to have been handed clown to him. 

 Under his administration and that of Doctor Wadsworth, who suc- 

 ceeded him, upv^'ards of 7,000 selected specimens were brought to- 

 gether and several thousand thin sections were prepared. These it is 

 to be inferred were kept in the survey rooms at the mining school. 

 The board of directors in their report for 1891-02 recommended that 

 there be set aside for the survey a room in the capitol. 



The above recommendation was evidently not adopted, since Hub- 

 bard in his report for 1894 (dated November) speaks of the survey 

 now having a building of its own. 



MINNESOTA.' 



The first effort of the State of Minnesota to institute a survey of 

 her domain was made in 18.58 in the first legislature that met after 

 the admission of the State into the Union. No general law was 

 passed, but a reprint was ordered of a portion of former reports by 

 Prof. Edward Daniels on the geological survey of Wisconsin, in 

 which State ISIinnesota had then latterly been embraced. 



The commissioner of statistics, Joseph A. Wheelock, also included 

 in his official reports for the years 1859-60 general summaries of the 

 physical features and agricultural capabilities of the State, which 

 went far toward recommending the State to eastern imraijrrants. 

 The facts, however, were derived not so much from original obser- 

 vation as from newspaper articles, reviews, and correspondence. 

 These reports were widely distributed and introduced the State in 

 its diversified natural resources favorably to the rest of the Union, 

 which, undoubtedly, was the prime object of their author. 



» See nisitory of Geological Surveys in Minnesota. Bull. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 

 No. 1, 1880, by N. II. Winchell. 



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