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directed. It was therefore found necessary to push the resohition 

 through early in the next session, with the saving clause, however, 

 that nothing in the resolution should be construed to direct "anj 

 other or further printing than the edition of said report hitherto 

 caused by said supervisor to be printed and bound in muslin under 

 the supposition that this resolution had been passed at the first session 

 of the general assembly." 



Within three weeks from the settlement of this question by law 

 another joint resolution was adopted to procure the printing, bind- 

 ing, and distribution of 10,000 copies additional of the report of 

 1869, and 2,000 copies in German, with the same illustrations as tha 

 English edition; 50 copies for the governor, 50 for the Ohio State 

 library, and the remainder for the use of the general assembly. It 

 was afterwards voted that 300 copies be placed at the disposal of the 

 corps — 100 to the chief and 60 each to the four next in rank. 



In 1870 the house adopted a resolution instructing the committee 

 on retrenchment to inquire into the expenditures of the survey and 

 to investigate everything connected with it, empowering that com- 

 mittee to send for persons and papers, and requiring a report at as 

 early a day as possible. The committee Avas not heard from until 

 the following year, when both majority and minority reports were 

 sent in. The majority report criticized tlie appointment of T. G. 

 Wormley as chemist, when the law specified that one of the assistants 

 should be a "skillful agricultural and analytical chemist." 



After giving the sum total of all expenses of the corps, the com- 

 mittee reconnnended that the State be divided into three districts, 

 each one to be in charge of those best fitted for the work, implying 

 undivided personal attention, and that a competent chemist be 

 centrally located; each of the four appointees to receive $2,000 a 

 year. Then followed the replies of Colonel Whittlesey, E. B. An- 

 drews, and Leo Lesquereux, as to the purpose of the survey, the 

 best method of conducting it, whether the existing appropriations 

 were adequate, etc., from which it is possible to gather much interest- 

 ing information. The minority report recommended that the work 

 be continued under the corps as organized in accordance with the 

 plan pursued to date. 



Museum. — A law of 1870 imposed upon the chief geologist the 

 duty of collecting a full set of specimens for the benefit of the Ohio 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College, then in its infancy. 



Expense during 1870. — During the same year an appropriation of 

 $17,250 was made for continuing the survey, itemized as follows: 

 Salaries of chief and three assistants, not exceeding $5,950; con- 

 tingent expenses, $11,300, of which $1,500 was specially appropriated 

 for chemicals and" apparatus. For the year 1870 the disbursements 



