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nearly all the text has been set up, so that the whole will appear at no 

 distant period. 



Dr. Evans, formerly associated with Dr. Owen, has also been sent out by 

 the land office on a geological examination of Oregon. During his passage 

 out, he obtained and sent to the Land Office a magnificent specimen of the 

 big horn, or Rocky Mountain sheep, [Ovis moniana,) which has been kindly 

 presented to the Smithsonian Institution by the Commissioner of the General 

 Land Office, Hon. J. Butterfield. 



State Explorations.— The legislature of Pennsylvania, at its last session, 

 appropriated forty thousand dollars for the completion of the geological 

 survey of the State, commenced many years ago, but allowed to remain 

 for a long 4inie without any further appropriation. The sum above men- 

 tioned includes the cost of publishing the results in two quarto volumes, 

 with a large map. Among the points of especial interest in this report will 

 be a monograph of the coal plants of the United States, by Mr. Leo Les- 

 quereaux. 



North Carolina, almost the first in the field of geological exploration, 

 has again authorized a general geoloj^iccil and natural history survey of the 

 State, by Dr. E. Emmons, of Albany, well known for his services in a simi- 

 lar survey of the State of New York. 



The State of Mississippi has also authorized a survey under direction of 

 Colonel B. L. C. Wailes, of Washington, Mississippi, and Professor Mil- 

 lington, of Oxford, Mississippi. The approjiriation for the survey consists 

 of six thousand dollars per annum, one half devoted to the actual survey, 

 the other towards maintaining the professorship of geology in the State 

 university, of which Professor Millington is incumbent. 



Illinois, too, has followed the example of her sister States, and commenced 

 a survey under Dr. Norwood. 



The survey of Alabama under Professor Tuomey is still in progress, as 

 is also that of Canada under Mr. Logan. 



The following is a list of the States, as nearly as can be ascertained, 

 which have commenced geological surveys, with the names of the persons 

 engaged. Most of these have been commenced long since, and appropria- 

 tions for their final completion not granted. Several States have, however, 

 shown their willingness to resume the surveys. Only a few final reports 

 have, however, been published. The States of Missouri and Florida, it is 

 believed, are the only ones which have not yet authorized surveys. 



