474 BULLKTIX 10i>, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



iu tlie laboratory at Austin for cheiiiicnl analysis and tinal preservation in tin 

 State cabinet. 



After a brief winter's work in Austin the survey resumed the field 

 in 1860. Records of this year's work are verj' meager, for reasons 

 noted later. The personnel of the survey remained the same, with 

 the addition of S. B. Buckley, wlio was employed by Shnmard as a 

 collector of plants. 



Museum. — Section 3 of the law required the geolooist to forward 

 to the governor, from time to time during the progress of the survey, 

 specimens of rocks, ores, coals, soils, and fossils and other mineral 

 substances, such as might be necessary and proper to form a com- 

 plete cabinet of specimens of the geology and mineralogy of the 

 State, the same to be deposited in some convenient room at the State 

 capitol to be preserved for public inspection. 



Change of director. — Owing to reasons which have never been 

 made fully public, but which, to judge from correspondence and 

 articles in the newspapers of that date, were largely of a political 

 nature. Doctor Shumard was reuun-ed from office in 1860, after an 

 administration of some 26 months, to be succeeded in November of 

 the same year by Francis Moore, jr., the last named having the 

 reputation of an honoraljle and cultured gentleman, of much execu- 

 tive ability, but not a geologist. For many years he had been the 

 editor of the Houston Daily Telegraph, the then leading newspaper 

 of the State. Under Moore, S. B. Buckley was appointed first as- 

 sistant State geologist, Riddell being retained as assistant geologist 

 and chemist, and Iloessler as draftsman. 



Suspension of survey. — During December of 1860 Messrs. Moore 

 and Buckley made a short reconnoissance through tlie southern 

 counties of the State, and in ^larcli a tour was begun through western 

 Texas. During this latter trip the sm-vey was suspended by the 

 passage of the following resolution : 



Be it resolved, (1) That the geological survey be suspeudeil, with the ex- 

 ception of the State geologist and cliemist, who shall continue in the survey 

 only so long as it may be necessary to make out the report hereinafter pro- 

 vided for. 



(2) That B. F. Shumard, the State geologist, be requested to make a report 

 of his survey so far as the survey has been completed, and for that purpose 

 shall have control over the cabinet and rooms and his notes and the services 

 of the chemist, and he shall receiA'c a like salary heretofore paid the State 

 geologist until the work be completed : Provided, Said report shall be made by 

 The 1st of .July next; which compensation shall be paid out of the appropria- 

 tions heretofore made for the support of tlie geological bureau. 



(3) That Dr. Francis Moore, present State geologist, be requested to make 

 out a report of the work executed up to the present time. 



Approved April 8, 18(>]. 



