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See. 4. — The offices of the geological department shall be in such rooms 

 as may be assigned for this purpose and he shall keep such office and the 

 State Museum opeii during the usual business hours of other offices of the 

 State, when not engaged in field or other work requiring his absence there- 

 from. 



Sec. 5. — The State Geologist shall make to the Governor an annual 

 report of his labors and discoveries, and of all useful information he may have 

 obtained in such service, including such descriptions and figures in geology, 

 paleontology and archaeology as may promote science and aid in the diffu- 

 sion of knowledge ; and 5,000 copies of such report shall be printed an(J pub- 

 lished in like manner as other official reports. 



Sec. 6. — An appropriation of $5,000 annually shall be, and is hereby, 

 made for the next succeeding two years, which shall include the salaries of 

 the State Geologist and his paid assistant, and if any part thereof shall 

 remain unexpended, it shall remain a part of the general fund of the State, 

 to be used as other general funds of the State are used. 



Sec. 7. — All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



We find in this act four facts of importance, viz, (a) the change of name 

 to "Department of Geology and Natural History;" (b) the increase of the 

 length of term of the State Geologist from two to four years; (c) the first 

 recognition of a "State Museum" under that name; (d) an appropriation of 

 $5,000 per annum to carry on the work. 



CoUett was reappointed State Geologist by Governor Porter, and in his 

 first report of the new department, that for 1881, published in 1882, has the 

 following statement regarding the State Museum: "Additional cases were 

 procured tlarough funds appropriated for geological purposes, in the hands 

 of the State Boar^ of Agriculture and Mr. Geo. K. Greene was engaged to 

 arrange the fossils and specimens in their proper cases. The cabinet, when 

 first received from my predecessor, by actual enumeration, consisted of 8,912 

 specimens, mostly undressed fossils, generally without labels. At present 

 it embraces, well arranged, properly classified and labeled, 44,424 specimens." 



"Doc" Hurty, who was connected with the new department as "special 

 chemist to the Geologist," must have taken an interest in the museum, for 

 on the next page GoUett continues: "There is now on exhibition a pretty 

 full set of germs, minerals and crystalline rocks, implements of the 'mound 

 builder,' or stone age, fishes and reptiles of northern Indiana, etc., land and 

 fresh water shells, and beetles ; fossils of the coal measures and Lower Carboni- 

 ferous periods. In fossils of the Lower Silurian, Upper Silurian and Devonian 

 ages, the collection is a nearly complete exhibit of the specimens peculiar 

 to the State, and may not be readily excelled." On second thought, however, 

 we conclude that the printer must have been to blame and put in an "r" where 

 it did not belong. 



