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In accordance with this resohition. Doctoi- xShumard was reinstated, 

 with instructions to prepare his final report. What was done toward 

 complyino- with these instructions can not be definitely ascertained. 

 No reports were published, and presumably the agitation incidental 

 to the Civil War prevented further v.ork. Moore himself left for the 

 North in July, 1861, and Shumard returned to St. Louis with the 

 outbreak of the war. 



During- the war the State capital was occupied by troops and tlie 

 laboratories and museum of the survey were converted into a manu- 

 factory of percussion caps. The collections of the survey, tog-ether 

 with maps and other records, were thus lost and destroyed. 



It is stated that, at the opening of the war, Buckley also left the 

 South, taking with him tlie notes of the survey. At the close of 

 tlic conflict lie returned to Austin, assumed charge of the collec- 

 rions, and secured the passage of a joint resolution repealing- the act 

 of April 8, 1861, above given, by which the survey had been sus- 

 pended, and was himself appointed by Governor Throckmorton, in 

 November, 1866, to take charge of the survey, notwithstanding the 

 protests of Shumard. Iloessler, and others. 



PvMk-athns. — The publications of the survey, as may readily be 

 imagined from what has gone before, were few and of comparatively 

 little importance. A report of progress in the form of a pamphlet 

 of 17 pages was issued in 1859, 1,700 copies being printed; and in 1880 

 there was printed a partial report on the geology of western Texas, 

 compiled by Gen. H. P. Bee from unpublished manuscript left by the 

 Shumard brothers.* Buckley also issued a preliminary report ou 

 the geology and agriculture of Texas, in 1866. 



Expenses. — The writer has not been able to ascertain the exact 

 cost of the Texas survey under the leadership of Moore and Buckley. 

 Mr. R. T, Hill estimates' that the cost under Moore's administration 

 could not have exceeded $4,000, and gives a like figure for the one 

 year of Buckley's administration. The total expense of the survey 

 to November 1. 1850, iinde.r tl:!e administration of Shumard is given 

 as follows: 



Salaries of Slate geologist and assistants $5,187.50 



Services of di-aftsman J560.00 



Hire of subassistants, teamster, and cooks 1,448.21 



Expenses of going to New Yorlc for instruments, etc 332. 62 



Instruments, chemicals, and chemical apparatus 1,030. Tri 



Fitting up L'eological rooms and laboratory 532.72 



Looniis j'.nd Christian's account for building stable 480. 33 



' The papers publisliod by General Bee were, as I am Inforinccl by I'rof. E. F. Dumblo. 

 the record of Doctor Shiimarcl's trip for the United Slates Government in the forties 

 and not part of his State survey work, the two artich'>; in iho appendix of tliis publica- 

 tion being all that can bo credited to the survey. 



"Bulletin 45, U. S. Geological Survey, 1887. 



