314 BULLETIN 10^, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



County of Hudson : This county could have been completed in four 

 weeks, with the aid (which had been offered) of the New York Har* 

 bor commissioners' work. 



The legislature failing to make appropriations, the work of the 

 survey was brought to a close at the end of 1856. As noted in article 

 5 of the act establishing the survey, the surveyors were required to 

 collect specimens of the different minerals, fossils, etc., subject to 

 the disposal of the legislature, but no museum seems to have been 

 established, and apparently no library. 



Expense. — As already noted, the total expenditures of this Survey 

 amounted to $36,902.69. 



In 1860, through the interposition of the State agricultural society, 

 Doctor Kitchell was allowed the free use of the materials collected 

 by the surveys just mentioned, and authorized to complete and pub- 

 lish results of the three years' work in one volume, with map, on a 

 scale of not less that 3 miles to 1 inch, the same to be done without 

 expense to the State. Under this authority Doctor Kitchell, working 

 in connection with G. M. Hopkins, a civil engineer, prepared and pub- 

 lished a good geographical map on a scale of 2^ miles to the inch. 

 The death of Doctor Kitchell, which took place in 1861, before he had 

 written out any full account of the geology of the State, put a stop 

 to the proposed volume on geology. 



THIRD SURVEY UNDER GEORGE H. COOK AND J. C. SMOCK, 1804-1000. 



In 1863 the State agricultural society again interested itself in 

 survey matters and obtained the passage of an act authorizing its 

 officers to receive the State property which had been in the possession 

 of Doctor Kitchell and transfer it to Prof. George H. Cook or some 

 other suitable person, in order to complete the survey as proposed in 

 the original agreement of Doctor Kitchell. During the season of 

 1863 a section across the State, from the Atlantic shore at Shark River 

 Inlet to the Delaware Water Gap, was carefully studied and drawn 

 and a short report prepared by Professor Cook on the State surveys 

 as made by Professor Rogers and Doctor Kitchell and the benefits de- 

 rived from them. This report he was invited to read before the sen- 

 ate and the assembly in their regular sessions. In it was said : 



The importance of having the geological survey so executed and published 

 that all of our citizens may understand the geology of the State can hardly 

 be overestimated. To the practical man it is of the first importance to Icnow 

 that the materials of the globe are not jumbled together in a confused mass, 

 where any particular substance can only be found by chance, but that there 

 Is an orderly an-angement of them, and each is to be found in its appropriate 

 place. The soils upon each rock formation have their peculiar characteristics, 

 and the farmer who wishes to devote himself to dairying, to the raising of 



