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that of co-operation on the part of the State with the 

 topographic division of the United States Geological 

 Survey, the State meeting one-half the expense of the 

 field work involved, while the National Geological 

 Survey met the other half, together with the entire ex- 

 pense of engraving and publication. 



Your committee put forth its best efforts to present 

 the matter to the last legislature in a practical and 

 urgent form. A bill providing for such co-operation 

 was introduced in the Senate by Senator Garfield, who 

 took a warm interest in the matter, and whose aid in 

 its management was invaluable. Hearings were 

 granted by the appropriate committees in both Senate 

 and House. At these hearings the committee had the 

 valuable personal co-operation of Professor Edward 

 Orton, our State geologist, of President Canfield and 

 Professor C. N. Brown of the State University, of Mr. 

 Griggs, the city engineer of Columbus, besides letters 

 from other eminent engineers, educators and scientists 

 of the State. Upon two of these occasions Mr. Herbert 

 M. Wilson, chief topographer of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, came from Washington, at our solicitation and 

 with the approval of the director, to explain more fully 

 the nature of the survey, and to guarantee the good 

 faith of the United States Survey in the matter of 

 co-operation. 



At several stages of the progress of the bill circu- 

 lars explanatory of various aspects of the subject were 

 sent to all the members of the legislature. The en- 

 dorsement of various associations in the State were 

 brought to their notice, such as the Association of Col- 

 lege Presidents, the Society of Civil Engineers and 

 Surveysors, and the League of American Wheelmen. The 

 members of this Academy and of several other organi- 

 zations were solicited, through their secretaries, to 

 write favorably to their representatives in the legisla- 

 ture upon the subject. Sample map sheets, showing 



