442 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



50 copies to the State librarian for distributiou and exchange with other States 

 and Territories. 



Sec. 3. That so much of the act of May 14, 1874, I'eclted in the preamble, as 

 requires the reports to be sold, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent 

 herewith, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 



Administration. — In accordance with the act of assembly Gov. 

 John F. Hartranft appointed 10 citizens of the State to act as a board 

 of commissioners to execute the survey : Ario Pardee, of Hazleton : 

 William A. Ingham, of Philadelphia; Henry S. Eckert, of Reading; 

 Henry McCormick, of Harrisburg; James Macfarlane, of Towanda; 

 John B, Pearse, of Philadelphia ; Kobert V. Wilson, M. D., of Clear- 

 field; Hon, D. J. Morrell, of Johnstown; Henry W, Oliver, of Pitts- 

 burgh; and Samuel Q. Brown, of Pleasantville, as representing ali 

 parts and important interests of the State. Governor Hartranft was 

 himself chairman and Mr, Pearse secretary of the board. In 1878 

 Doctor Wilson died, and Charles A, Miner, of Wilkes-Barre, was ap- 

 pointed in his place. In 1879 Mr, Pearse removed to Boston and 

 Joseph Miner, of Luzerne County, was appointed. In 1879 Mr, Oli- 

 ver, then candidate for United States Senator, resigned, and Lewis 

 W. Hall, of Harrisburg, was appointed. In 1885 Senator Morrell 

 died, and Charles PL Noyes, of AVarren, was appointed. In 1885 Mr. 

 Macfarlane died, and Jacob Turner, of Greensburg, was appointed. 



In June, 1874, the board met, organized, and appointed J. P. Les- 

 ley, professor of geology in the University of Pennsylvania, State 

 geologist. The State geologist, in obedience to the terms of the law, 

 submitted to the board a plan of survey, which was accepted and put 

 at once into execution July 1, 1874. He appointed five assistant ge- 

 ologists, to commence work in as man}^ districts of the State, each with 

 one or more aids for instrumental ^vork; one topographer at head- 

 quarters, who acted also as clerk and accountant; one chemist, with 

 a laboratory at Harrisburg, and a mineralogist. 



At the end of the year, when the collections had come in, a museum 

 was established and a paleontological curator appointed. 



In 1875 two more assistant geologists Avere appointed to commence 

 work in two other districts, making se^'en in all, and also a paleo- 

 botanist. This completed the plan of the survey, which remained 

 practically unchanged for five years, being modified only by the pro- 

 motion of aids to take the place of assistants who resigned, by the 

 detail of the curator of the museum to a special geological district, 

 by the appointment of new aids as they were wanted, and by the ap- 

 pointment of young volunteers, who served for their expenses and the 

 knowledge they acquired. 



At each quarterly meeting of the board the State geologist reported 

 the ]3rogress of the survey, his plans for the ensuing three months, 



