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present legislature, one copy each; to the governor and lieutenant governor- 

 each one copy; to each assistant on the survey who has furnished manuscript 

 and illustrations published in the report, three copies; to the general office 

 of each railroad that has furnished aid to the survey, three copies; to the 

 library of each high school, furnishing students fitted for the freshman clasa 

 of the State University, one copy; to the State library of each State in the 

 Union, one copy; to each State university and each college of agriculture and 

 mechanic arts, one copy; to geologists and naturalists of Minnesota, 50 copies; 

 to the geologists and naturalists of other States, 200 copies; to other colleges 

 and scientific institutions in the United States, 100 copies: to foreign insti- 

 tutions and scientists, 100 copies; and to the State geologist, 25 copies. The 

 remainder shall be deposited in the State University, and shall be sold sit such 

 prices as the board of regents may determine, and the proceeds of such sales 

 shall be used by said regents for the purchase of apparatus and books for the 

 survey, aad, after its completion, for the departments of natural science at the 

 State University. 



Sec. 5. The expense of printing, engraving, binding, and distrjl)ntion of said 

 reports shall be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated in the State 

 treasury, on warrants of the State auditor, approved by the governor and secre- 

 tary of state. 



Sec. 6. The commissioner hereby appointed shall perform the duties herein 

 designated without further compensation than the payment of the actual ex- 

 penses incurred in the discharge thereof. 



Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be In force from and after its passage. 



Approved March 7, 1885. 



These comprise all the laws that have passed the leoislature re- 

 specting the present survey. The fund on which the survej' depends 

 arises entirely from the sale of lands intrusted by the legislature to 

 the board of regents. The regents manage the sales according to 

 their judgment, limited only by the State law that recpiires no State 

 land to be sold for less than $4 an acre. This minimum price 

 would produce a fund which in the aggregate reached ^136,524. 



The geological and natural history survey is one of the important 

 wards of the university, and is constantly demonstrating the wisdom 

 of the law that made it one of its functions to conduct it. The 

 mutual benefits that spring from this relationship need not be dwelt 

 on here. 



Benefits. — If no mention be made of the invisible benefits that 

 result to the State, and particularly to the university, by the prose- 

 cution of this survey, it will perhaps be proper to enumerate some of 

 the tangible beneficial results that have accrued to the people of the 

 State directly through the agency of the survey : 



1. Beginning with the inauguration of the survey, the first that 

 should be mentioned is the fact that the professorship of geology 

 and mineralogy, with the added work of instruction in botany and 

 zoology, in the university, was maintained for six jears solely at the 

 expense of the survey fund. This also included much of the equip- 



