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of pIcMsurc is ;iir('<ti(l l»v t!i(' coiidilioM of the wcit !ici- i> f:ir 

 jMorii iiitcrcslcd iu wlint I lie roiidit ions w ill he in t!ic twenty- 

 four to forty-ciiihl hours nhcnd of liiiu tli.-in lie cin lie in th(^ 

 woMthor of six nioutiis or a year in the past. 



Tlic o('casi(tiial wail w!ii<ji is heard when the weather fore- 

 caster makes a mistake atrectiiiii- any iarije ai'ea is iu itself 

 strouir cvitkmee tliat tiu^ ])redieti(nis of ttie Siirnal S('rvi<-e arc- 

 consulted daily hy thousands of interested peoph', and that 

 to a certain extent, at least, they hase their plans for the (hiy 

 on such j)redictions. Such could not l>e the casc^ if tfie service 

 did not in the majority of cases piovc useful l)y liivinii: accu- 

 rate [)rcdictions. 



1 helieve tliat )»ot}i science and t!i<' i.ul)lic welfare would he 

 henetitted if there could he a |)ro[)er connection hetwcou tlic 

 State and (iovernmcnt services. Tlie Sioual Service spends 

 annually larire sums of uioney in suj^ijortini;' ohservers aud 

 distril)utini;- |)redictions hy telegraph in our State. In so far 

 as tiie State Service du[)lieates such work, there is loss of ef- 

 fort aud uioney. The ohsc^'vatious taken at different hours 

 aud uudcr ditVerent instructions, are not readily compared 

 for lack of uniformity. 



I would not he understood as depreciatina' the work of our 

 Stat(^ Service or favoriuir any reduction of its resources hut 

 as suiriicstiuii" merely the effort to so comhine the work now 

 <"irricd on in entirely independent ways as to secure records 

 capahle of c^xact coin|)arison, aud distril)ute the greatest 

 amount of valuahle information to the })eople of the State. 



In all of the various o-eoloiiical surveys a i)roniinent place 

 was iiiven to cliemical determinations of the ditl'ercut rocks 

 heloniiiui:" to various formations, and in a «i-eneral way we 

 have iiiforination upon this suhject for the most important 

 strata. The survey hy Owens seems to lunc confiiu^d its work 

 in this line to the Lake Sui)crior i-ei;i()U. In the survey uu(h'r 

 Prof. Hall much attention to the>ul)je<t was ifiveii aiul th<- 



