512 BULLETIN iO'tt, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Museum. — Paragrapli 6 of the law of 1835 provided for the ct>!- 

 lection and preservation of speciinens and materials to be preserved 

 in some apartment of the library room until otherwise provided for. 



Publications. — Antagonism to the survey manifested itself as early 

 as 1839, and in 1841 the law creating it Avas repealed, though the 

 unexpended balance of the appropriation was permitted to be 

 utilized in the finishing of reports. Six annual reports, beginning 

 with 1836 and ending with 1841, were issued. No final report had 

 been prepared, nor was provision made for the same, although Pro- 

 fessor Rogers and the friends of the survey made earnest efforts in 

 this direction. Even as late as 1854 it appears from the published 

 correspondence that Professor Rogers was in Richmond and ap- 

 peared before the legislature urging an appropriation of $2,400 for 

 the completion of the work, and although the bill passed the senate, 

 it failed in the house. A compilation of the original reports, com- 

 prising an octavo volume of upwards of 800 pages, with colored 

 sections and a geological map, was in 1884 issued by D. Appleton and 

 Company, of New York City, under the editorship of Jed. Hotchkiss, 

 a mining engineer of Staunton, Virginia. 



WISCONSIN. 



FIRST SURVEY UNDER EDWARD DANIELS AND J. C. PERCIVAL, 1853-18.56. 



The mineral resources of ^Visconsin had been in part investigated 

 by the survey of David Dale Owen in 1839^0, under direction of 

 the General Land OiRce. The first survey under State auspices was 

 inaugurated in accordance with the following enactment : 



The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and general as- 

 sembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1, The govefuor of thi.s State is hereby authorized, as soon as may 

 be after this act shall take effect, to appoint a State geologist, who shall be a 

 person of competent scientific and practical knowledge of the science of geology 

 and mineralogy : and the said State geologist shall, by and with the consent of 

 the governor, appoint one suitable person to assist him in the discharge of his 

 duties, who shall be a skillful analytical and experimental chemist. 



Sec. 2. It .shall be the duty of the said State geologist and his assistant, as 

 soon as maj' be practical after their appointment, to commence and carry on 

 with such expedition and dispatch as may be consistent with minuteness and accu- 

 racy, a thorough geological and mineralogical survey of this State, with a view 

 to determine the order, succession, arrangement, relative position, dip of in- 

 clination, and comparative magnitude of the several strata or geological forma- 

 tions within this State, and to discover aiid examiue all beds or deposits of ore, 

 coal, clay, and such mineral and earthy substances as may be useful or valu- 

 able, and to perform such other dHtles ns may be necessary to make a full and 

 complete geological and mineralogical survey of the State: Provided, That It 

 shall be the duty of said State geologist to complete his survey of that portion 

 of the State known as thg " lead mines " before commencing the survey of the 

 remainder of the State. 



