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and organisms discovered or examined in the course of the said surveys, to be 

 preserved for public inspection, free of cost, in the University of Minnesota, in 

 rooms convenient of access and properly warmed, lighted, ventilated, and fur- 

 nished, and in charge of a proper scientific curator; and they shall also, when- 

 ever the same may be practicable, cause duplicates in reasonable numbers and 

 quantities of the above-named specimens to be collected and preserved for the 

 purposes of exchanges with other State universities and scientific institutionSj 

 of which latter the Smithsonian Institution at Washington shall have the pref- 

 erence. 



Sec. 7. The said board of regents shall cause a geological map of the State 

 to be made as soon as may be practicable, upon which, by colors and other 

 appropriate means and devices, the various geological formations shall be rep- 

 resented. 



Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the said board of regents through their presi- 

 dent, to make, on or before the second Tuesday in December of each and every 

 year, a report showing the progress of the said surveys, accompanied by such 

 maps, drawings, and specifications as may be necessary and pi'oper to exem- 

 plify the same to the governor, who shall lay the same before the legislature; 

 and the said board of regents, upon the completion of any separate portion of 

 the said surveys, shall cause to be prepared a memoir or final report, which 

 shall embody in a convenient manner all useful and important information accu- 

 mulated in the course of the investigation of the particular department or por- 

 tion ; which report or memoir shall likewise be communicated through the gov- 

 ernor to the legislature. 



Sec. -9. To carry out the provisions of this act the sum of $1,000 per annum 

 is hereby appropriated, to be drawn and expended by the (said) board of re- 

 gents of the University of Minnesota. 



Sec. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval. 



Approved March 1, 1872. 



This is the organic law vrhich remained in force in all its provisions 

 throughout the life of the survey. The legislature in some of its sub- 

 sequent sessions, however, passed laws to facilitate the execution of 

 this, or amplifying some of its provisions, but in no respect was a 

 single clause of the law abrogated or modified. 



Although the law of 1872 was approved on the ist day of March, 

 the regents took no action looking to its execution till the July fol- 

 lowing, when Prof. N. H. Winchell was summoned to St. Paul from 

 active field work in the State of Ohio to meet the board of regents 

 there in session and to assume the position of State geologist under 

 this law. Engagements in Ohio, however, would not permit the be- 

 ginning of the season's work till September. 



A moment's examination of the laAv was sufficient to convince Pro- 

 fessor Winchell that the sum of money appropriated for the work was 

 wholly inadequate for the purposes which the law contemplated, and 

 it was evident that the legislature did not so much expect the law 

 would effect a complete survey of the State as that it would pay for 

 the services of an officer at the university who should be made useful 

 in any way the regents should find it convenient to have him work, 



