514 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CassviDe, Beetown, Potosi, Platteville, Mineral Point, Yellowstone, 

 and Exeter, and from the Mississippi to the east part of Green 

 County." 



His report for this year was in the form of an octavo pamphlet of 

 101 pages, with an outline map showing the location of the prin- 

 cipal ore " diggings." In the season of 1855 he first visited the iron 

 mines at Iron Ridge, Dodge County, Hartford, Washington County, 

 and at Marston on the Little Baraboo, Sauk County, after which he 

 recommenced the examination of the lead districts, completing the 

 work June 30. The remainder of the season, till December 8, was 

 emploj'ed in a reconnoissance of the State for the purpose of form- 

 ing a general idea of the stratigraphy. 



While engaged in preparing his second report, recording the opera- 

 tions of the year, he was taken ill and died on May 2, 1856. The 

 report as issued was in the form of a small octavo of 111 pages. 



Expense. — The total approj)riation for the survey, as indicated in 

 the act, amounted to but $7,500. 



SECOND SURVEY UNDER JAMES ITALL, 1 85 7-1 SCO. 



The geological survey ^ifiving been left unfinished by the death 

 of Percival, a new act was passed in Marcli, 1857, of which the fol- 

 lowing is a transcript : 



An act to provide for a geologicnl and agrioultnral survey of tbo State. 



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

 semhly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. .Tames Hall, of Albany, New York, and Ezra S. Carr anrl Edward 

 Daniels, of Wisconsin, are hereby designated and appointed commissioners to 

 make a geological, mineralogical, and agricultural survey of this State, em- 

 bracing a scientific and descriptive survey of the rocks, fossils, and minerals of 

 the State; full and complete assays of the ores and minerals, also of the soilg 

 and subsoils, with the classification and de.scription of the same and their 

 adaptation to particular crops, and the best methods of preserving and increas- 

 ing their fertility. They shall also make a full collection of the rocks, ores, and 

 minerals, and whatever illustrates the economic geology of the State, and de- 

 posit the same in the rooms of the State university or such other place as may 

 be provided for the same, constituting a museum of practical and scientific 

 geology. Said commissioners shall also make full collections of soils, native 

 fertilizers, cultivated and other useful plants, constituting a museum of prac- 

 tical and scientific geology, and deposit the same as aforesaid. 



Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall arrange and distribute the functions of such 

 survey by mutual agreement, and employ such assistants as may be deemed by 

 a majority of them necessary to carry on the work. 



Sec. .3. The governor of this State shall make a written contract with each 

 of the commissioners aforesaid, expressly stipulating and setting forth the 

 nature and extent of the service to be rendei-ed by each and the compensation 

 therefor, including the expenses of the department of the survey under charge 

 of each commissioner. Such contract shall expressly provide that the com- 



