376 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



It was the first endeavor of Professor Kerr to determine wliat of 

 the objects of the survey had been most fully accomplished during 

 the administration of Doctor Emmons. It was found that his un- 

 published notes had been lost or destroyed, and hence that it would 

 be necessary to reexamine in large part the field covered by him, as 

 well as to survey the large western area, thus far almost unexplored. 

 However, before the work in connection with the general geology 

 could be completed, or indeed prosecuted to any great advantage, a 

 topographic map was necessary. Concerning the middle and eastern 

 divisions of the State it was found that data for this could be col- 

 lected from previous geographical surveys of one kind or another, 

 but in the western division much original topographical work would 

 have to be done. 



In the department of paleontology much more work remained to 

 be done. Concerning this, in his report of progress for 1866, page 

 20, Kerr says : 



Neither the Tertiary fossils of the eastern counties nor the Mesozoic of the 

 Deep River and Dan River coal beds, nor yet the supposed Azoic (so-called 

 Taconic) organisms of the middle section have been fully and satisfactorily 

 studied and illustrated. 



It was a part of the plan of organization to form a museum of 

 specimens illustrative of the fossils, rocks, minerals and mining 

 products, soils and marls, animals, and plants of the State; also, in 

 connection with the agriculture, to make additional analyses of soils 

 and marls and undertake any other investigation which the interest 

 of the people might demand in this direction. 



It was also a part of the plan to organize meteorological stations 

 in many counties for the purpose of determining as far as possible 

 the general climatology of the State, and to investigate the water 

 power and manufacturing advantages. 



No modifications of the law of 1851 were enacted from the date 

 of its passage in 1851 to the year 1877. There was, however, an act 

 passed by the general assembly of 1871-72, ratified February 12, 

 1872, which in slight measure affected the duties of the State geolo- 

 gist as follows: 



An act to prevent fraud In tlic sale of commercial manures. 



Skc. 4. That any person or persons instituting suit against any such manu- 

 facturer for such damages may on the payment of $15 to the State geologist 

 cause a full and accurate analysis to be made by him, a certificate of which 

 shall be presumptive evidence of the chemical elements and ingredients con- 

 tained in the sample of fertilizer so analyzed and of the package or parcel from 

 which the sample was taken. 



The above was amended by an act of the general assembly of 1873- 

 74, ratified January 29, 1874, as follows:* 



' Laws of North Curollna, 1878-74, ch. Ixlx, sec. 6. p. 96. 



