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proceeded at once upon a geologic survey of the State ; and a small 

 report upon the progress of the work during the year was published. 

 No provision was made, however, for continuing the work. 



Georgia. — A State geologist is commonly employed under the auspices 

 of the department of agriculture. During tlie greater part of the bi- 

 ennial period the incumbent was Augustus R. JNIcCutchen ; but after 

 his death, early in 18.S8, the position remained vacant for several 

 months, when it was filled by the appointment of Dr. J. W. Spencer, 

 professor of geology in the State University at Athens. A law of 

 1874 provides in addition for the appointment of a State geologist by 

 the governor; and Dr. Spencer has received this appointment also. 

 No publications have appeared during the biennial period. 



Illinois. — While no geologic surveys are in progress in this State, 

 there is maintained at Springfield a State cabinet of geology and nat- 

 ural history, which is virtually a geologic bureau, and the curator of 

 whi(;h is virtually State geologist. This position was held by Prof. A. 

 H. Worthen until his decease, and is now occupied by Joshua Lindahl. 

 No oflacial publications have emanated from the bureau during the last 

 two years. 



Indiana. — A State geologic survey is in progress here, under the 

 direction of Maurice Thompson, State geologist, with two or three 

 assistants; and reports are issued annually. 



KentucTcy—Vvot John R. Proctor has charge of the State geologic 

 survey, and, with three or four assistants, has carried forward impor- 

 tant researches in structural and economic geology during the biennial 

 period ; and an octavo monograph and several minor papers have been 

 published. 



Michigan.— 1\\ this State there is a geologic survey, the personnel of 

 which has been changed during the biennial period by the death of 

 State Geologist C. E. Wright early in 1888, and the subsequent ap- 

 pointment of Prof. M. E. V\^adsworth, president of the State mining 

 school at Houghton. The survey in this State now partakes of the 

 character of a mining bureau, designed to convey specific information 

 upon definite subjects to citizens of the State, and no important publi- 

 cations have been made during the biennial period. 



Minnesota. — A geologic survey has been under way for some years, 

 under the direction of State Geologist N. II. AVinchell, with a corps of 

 assistants. Annual reports are published in octavo; and during the 

 biennial period the second volume of the final report, in large quarto, 

 has appeared. 



New York. — A State geologic survey is in progress here under the di- 

 rection of the board of regents of the University of the State of New 

 York, the veteran paleontologist Prof. James Ilall being State geolo- 

 gist. Two volumes of the elaborate series of quarto paleontologic mo- 

 nograi»hs, and two annual reports in octavo, have been issued by the 

 survey during 1887-'88. 



