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Museum. — In the early reports of the survey reference is made to 

 tlie preparation of a State museum, and in the report for 1871-72 it 

 is stated that one of the largest and best furnished rooms in the 

 capitol had been allotted for the purpose and five cases suitable for 

 the display of specimens had been prepared. The exhibit at that 

 time contained from 800 to 1,200 specimens. The report for 1873-74 

 notes the addition of three cases and the preparation of a catalogue 

 of the collections. Beyond this, no printed information is available. 



Publications. — The publications under the office of the State miner- 

 alogist are limited to seven brief reports, which contain little of 

 other than mining interest. No systematic geological work whatever 

 was accomplished. With the discontinuance of the survey in 1879, 

 under the act of February, 1877, all effort on the part of a survey 

 under State auspices ceased and has never been renewed. 



NEW HAMPSHIKE. 



FIRST SURVEY UNDER CHARLES T. JACKSON, 1839-1844. 



Organization. — In 1839, in response to a popular demand and 

 through the personal efforts of Dr. C. T. Jackson, there was estab- 

 lished by the State Legislature of New Hampshire a mineralogical 

 and geological survey of the State. The following is the text of the 

 act: 



An act to provide for the geological aud mineralogical survey of the State. 



Section 1. Be it enacted Itii the senate and house of representatives in gen- 

 eral court convened, That the go\eriior of this Stote is hereby authorized 

 and required .is soon as maj' be after the passage of this act to appoint a State 

 geologist, who shall be a person of competent scientific and practical knowledge 

 of the sciences, geology and mineralogy; and the said State geologist shall, 

 by and with the consent of the go\eruor and council, appoint one suitable per- 

 son to assist him in the discharge of his duties, who shall be a skillful, analyti- 

 cal, and experimental chemist. 



Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the State geolo- 

 gist and his said at^sistant, as soon as may be practicable after their appoint- 

 ment, to commence and carry on, witli as much expedition and dispatch as may 

 bo consistent with minuteness and accuracy, a thorough geological and mineral- 

 ogical survey of this State, with a view to determine the order, succession, ar- 

 rangement, relative position, dip, or inclination, and comparative magnitude of 

 the several strata or geological formations within this State, and to discover 

 and examine all beds or deposits of ore, coal, clay, marls, and such other mineral 

 substances as may be useful or valuable, and to perform such other duties as 

 may be necessary to make a full and complete geological and mineralogical 

 survey of the State. 



Sec. 3. And he it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of the said 

 assistant to make full and complete examinations, assays, analyses of all such 

 rocks, ores, soils, or other substances as may be submitted to him by the State 

 geologist for that purpose; and to furnish him with a detailed and complete 

 account of tlie results so obtained. 



