302 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



the final report, though it is possible it may have been used for the 

 relief of the volunteers already mentioned. 



Publications. — Three annual reports were rendered, the first two 

 in the form of octavo pamphlets of 1G4 and 8 pages, respectively, 

 dated 1841 and 1842. The third annual was included in the final re- 

 port, which formed a quarto volume of 384 pages and 11 plates. 



A resolution of the senate and house of representatives, dated De- 

 cember 10, 1840, directed the secretary of state to procure 1,000 

 printed copies of the first annual report. The second annual was not 

 issued separately from the general legislative document. The addi- 

 tional final report was limited to GOO copies. The reports were 

 distributed with the legislative proceedings, and the final report sent 

 to special institutions and individuals who were named to receive 

 them. The cost of this report is supposed to have been between $3 

 and $4 a copy. 



SECOND SURVEY UNDER CHARLES H. HITCHCOCK, 1868-1878.^ 



In June, 18G8, in response to a renewed demand, a second survey 

 was inaugurated. The following is the text of the second law : 



An act to provide for the goological and mineralogical survey of the State. 



Be it enacted hy the senate and house of representatives in general court 

 convened: 



Section 1. That the governor of ilie State, by and with the advice of the 

 honorable council, is hereby required and authorized, as soon as may 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 of geology and 

 mineralogy; and said State geologist shall have power to appoint such suitable 

 person or persons as he may deem necessary to aid him in carrying out the 

 purposes of this act. 



Skc. 2. It shall be the duty of said State geologist, as soon as may be practi- 

 cable after his appointment, to commence and carry on, with as much expedition 

 and dispatch as may be consistent with minuteness and accuracy, a thorough 

 geological and mineralogical survey of this State, with a view 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 complete such survey. 



Skc. 3. It shall be the further duty of said State geologist to make a brief 

 annual report of his progress to the secretary of state, who shall submit the 

 same to the legislature, and shall forward from time to time such specimens of 

 mineral substances as may be proper and necessary to form a complete cabinet 

 collection of specimens of the geology and mineralogy of tlie State, as follows, 

 viz : One complete set to the .secretary of state, for preservation at the eap'tol of 

 the State, which shall be so classified and arranged as to be accessible to all inter- 

 ested in the mineral capacity of the State, and one complete set to the museum 

 of tlie agricultural college, to be used in the instruction of the young men who 

 may resort there for an agricultural education. 



> Mainly from manuscript notes by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock. 



