392 BULLETITSr 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



specimens of all rocks, minerals, fossils, etc., in regular geological 

 series not only for the State but a suite for each of the colleges. 

 These will be of immense value to students of geology and mineral- 

 ogy, to the miner and to the future historian of the State. 



"' Much more might be said, but this is sufficient to make the survey 

 an object of deep importance to the welfare of the citizens. The 

 increased value of real estate or the additional revenues from canals 

 and railroads would in one year more than pay the cost of the sur- 

 vey. Several of the Eastern States are making such surveys with 

 great profit to themselves. Let Ohio also engage in the work." 



The expenses of the committee ($400) were met from the gover- 

 nor's contingent fund. Accompanying the message there was also a 

 joint resolution on the subject of a geological survey of the State of 

 Indiana, authorizing the governor of that State to correspond with 

 the governors of Ohio and Kentuckj- relative to the survey of the 

 territory of tlie three States, and to ascertain whether and upon what 

 terms Ohio and Kentucky would join Indiana in that object. 



So far as could be learned no action was ever taken upon this 

 comnmnication. 



The general assembly ordered that 5,000 copies of the governor's 

 message and accompanying documents be printed, also 5,000 extra 

 copies of the report of the geological board. Three thousand copies 

 of the message and accompanying documents were ordered printed 

 in German. Within a few days it was ordered that 3,000 additional 

 copies of that portion of the documents accompanying the governor's 

 message that constitutes the report of the geological board be printed, 

 300 of which should be placed at the disposal of said board ; 50 to be 

 deposited in the State library; and the remainder to be distributed 

 among the seminaries of the States with the accompanying maps and 

 plates. 



That portion of the report contributed by J. S. Eiddell was not 

 sent to the governor until March 9, 1837. This paper is relative to 

 the limestone region of the State. The different limestones are de- 

 scribed, the blue limestone and cliff limestone being especially em- 

 phasized. The repoi't was read before the general assembly and 1,000 

 copies were ordered printed for their use. 



Meanwhile the general assembly had entered earnestly upon the 

 work, and after bills from both houses, resolutions, amendments, and 

 counter amendments, finally passed on March 27, 1837, an act of 

 which the following is a transcript : 



An act providing for a geological siirvoy of the State of Ohio, and other purposes. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the Ocncral Assembly of the State of Ohio, Thut 

 the governor of this State is hereby requested, as speedily as may be, to cause 



