GEOLOGiaU-, AND ^'ATUHAL HISTORY SUKVEYS. 459 



by Prof. C. W. Brown a considerable collection of rocks was made 

 and one or two copies of an areal niai> prepared, but that nothing; 

 was published. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



In the acts of the general assembly of South Carolina, passed in 

 December, 1824, there occurs the following under the clause makiuja: 

 appropriations for the current year (1824) : 



For the salary of the professor of geology and mineralogy, .$1,000, and .$500 

 for making n geological and minernlogical tour during the veoes.'" of (college and 

 fnmishing specimens of the snme. 



Presumably' this enactment was in accordance with soiue previous 

 resolution which does not appear in the printed reports. Lardner 

 Vanuxem, of Pennsylvania, was at this date professor of chemistry 

 and geology in South Carolina College, but whether the appropria- 

 tion was for past or prospective work is not apparent, nor is the 

 writer able to find any record of the "catalogue of mineral speci- 

 mens" referred to in tlu; act of 1825, unless it be that of 1826, men- 

 tioned below. 



On December 15 of the following year (1825) the legislative con;- 

 mittce, to whom was referred that portion of tlie governor's message 

 relating to the College of South Carolina, reported as " having con- 

 sidered the same" * * * j^iif[ i^ connection with their recom- 

 mendations referred to "the catalogue of mineral specimens col- 

 lected by a distinguished member of the faculty under the direction 

 of this legislature" as furnishing "the strongest assurance of his 

 industry and science and the richness of the country he has been 

 directed to explore." They then continued : 



Your committee are nncier the most sanguine expectations that the day is not 

 far distant when the bowels of the earth will be found to contain the means 

 of increasing the fertility of its surface: and they recommend most earnestly 

 .'1 continuance of these examinations, not only for the benefit of those who are 

 to be instructed in academic pursuits, but also for the promotion of figricul- 

 tural prosperity. 



This recommendation was agreed to by the senate and referred 

 to the house, w^hich concurred, under date of December 19. 



Upon Prof. Lardner Vanuxem fell the burden of a continuance of 

 the work which, however, so far as can be learned at this late date 

 and from existing literature, amounted to little more than an an- 

 nouncement of the number of species and a list of the rocks and min- 

 erals found within the State — 10 species of rocks, 30 of minerals. 

 His report (marie in 1R26) a])pears to have been originallv printed in 



