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The present writer has traveled this stream in a row boat from Tippe- 

 canoe Lake to its mouth. He has also traveled every other large stream of 

 the State except the Whitewater in like manner. He can, therefore, from 

 actual experience assert that W. H. Thompson was right when he said that 

 no other stream in the State can compare with the Tippecanoe in the variety 

 and beauty of its scenery. 



S. S. Gorby the new State Geologist, contributed to the second report of 

 Thompson a paper on the Geology of Miami County; also one on "Natural 

 Gas and Petroleum," and a third on "The Structural Features of Indiana," 

 the last named is based largely upon data obtained from the records of the 

 hundreds of gas wells which had been recently sunk in the State, the object 

 of the paper being to show the approximate depth at which Trenton Rock, 

 the oil and gas bearing formation, would be found in the different sections 

 of the State. 



The final paper of the volume is one on paleontology by S. A. Miller and 

 is entitled: "The Structures, Classification and Arrangement of American 

 Paleozoic Crinoids into Families." It includes the characters of the families 

 and genera and descriptions, accompanied by ten plates of figures, of many 

 new species. 



Between 1888, the date of issue of Thompson's second report, and 1892, 

 the date of appearance of the next report of the Department of Geology, 

 politics and Geology were badly mixed. Maurice Thompson was evidently 

 wise when he resigned in December, 1888, and we suspect that politics 

 had more to do with his resignation than did the state of his health. As we 

 have noted, S. S. Gorby was appointed by Governor Gray to fill the vacancy. 



In the election in November, 1888, General A. P. Hovey, a republican, 

 had been chosen Governor and all the candidates for State office on the 

 republican ticket had also been successful. The Democrats, however, had 

 carried the legislature by a good working majority, and when that body met 

 in January, 1889, it immediately proceeded to make the Governor as much 

 of a nonentity as possible, by taking from him the most of his appointive 

 offices and vesting them in itself. On February 26 it passed, over the Gover- 

 nor's veto, a bill with the following title; 



"An Act establishing a Department of Geology and Natural Resources 

 in the State of Indiana, and providing for a Director of the Department; 

 abolishing the Department of Geology and Natural History, and the office 

 of State Geologist connected therewith; abolishing the offices of Mine In- 

 spector and State Inspector of Oils; repealing all laws or parts of laws con- 

 flicting with any of the provisions of this act, and declaring an emergency." 



Those sections of this act which pertain especially to the office and duties 

 of the State Geologist were in part as follows: 



Section 1. — Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Slate of Indiana, 

 That a Department of Geology and Natural Resources is hereby established 

 for the purpose of continuing and perfecting the geological and scientific 

 survey of this State, of discovering, developing and preserving its natural 



