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1883 and made under tlie supervision of Mr. Cox and his sueeesaor, John 

 CoUett, I quote as follows from Dr. George H. Ashley, who, as a specialist 

 in that line, is much more competent to judge than I. IVIr. Ashley says:* 

 "The character of the field work in the various counties varied greatly. 

 Several of the counties never received more than a preliminary survey. 

 Thus in Warrick County three sections were obtained, the coal from one mine 

 analyzed and four pages of descriptive text given. On the other hand, in some 

 of the counties, the field work extended over several seasons and the i-eports 

 on these counties were, as a rule, correspondingly complete and detailed. In 

 such cases the abundant columnar sections obtained, especially those by Mr. 

 CoUett, have proven of inestimable value in the present survey. The cor- 

 relation of the coals and the location of points on the maps appear to have 

 been, to too large an extent, guess work, and this factor of unreliability pre- 

 vented more than an occasional use of those parts of the reports in my survey. 

 * * No attempt at colored geological maps was made in connection with 

 the reports of the coal counties. As stated above, the field work was more 

 of the character of an examination than a survey, the maps as a rule showing 

 only the points at which data Avere obtained, without attempting to show the 

 distribution of particular coal beds or formations. A large part of the errors 

 in stratigraphy of the earlier surveys are doubtless due to lack of surveying 

 methods or the systematic tracing of the coal beds and their accompanying 

 strata." 



The paper of Dr. Haymond on Franklin County in the 1869 report of 

 Cox is devoted mainly to its physical geography, there being within its bound 

 no economic resources other than the soils and flagstones afterward quarried 

 extensively near Laurel. He includes a list of the principal trees and de- 

 scriptions of the ancient earthworks of the county. Follownng his regular 

 report, however, are two papers of nioi'e than passing interest to the naturalist. 

 These are entitled "Mammals found at the Present Time in Franklin County," 

 and "Birds of Franklin County, Indiana." Full notes on the habits of the 31 

 species of mammals and 163 of birds listed show Dr. Haymond to have been a 

 close and careful observer. These two papers were the first of many which 

 have since appeared treating of the fauna or flora of the State, most of which 

 have been published cither in the annual reports of the State Geologist or 

 in the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. 



Secoxd Report of Cox. 



The Second Report of Cox, covering the work done on the Survey in 1870, 

 was issued in 1871. It contained an excellent lithograph frontispiece of the 

 "jug rock" near Shoals, Martin County; also lithograph plates of the large 

 frame hotel, bath house and creek at Indian Springs, the first hotel at West 

 Baden, and of blast furnaces in Claj^ and Vigo Counties. Except for tie crude 



*23rd Anu. Rep. Ind. Dept. Geol. & Nat. Resources, 1898, pp. 8 and 9. 



