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  INTRODUCTION. 
  

  

  The 
  Agricultural 
  and 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   originated 
  in 
  an 
  act 
  of 
  the 
  Legislature, 
  approved 
  the 
  

   5th 
  of 
  March, 
  1850, 
  to 
  take 
  effect 
  on 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  June 
  

   following, 
  entitled 
  "an 
  Act 
  further 
  to 
  endow 
  the 
  Uni- 
  

   versity 
  of 
  Mississippi 
  ;" 
  and 
  its 
  execution 
  was 
  committed 
  

   to 
  that 
  Institution. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  Millington 
  was 
  appointed, 
  by 
  the 
  Trustees, 
  

   principal 
  Professor 
  of 
  Geology 
  and 
  Agriculture, 
  in 
  con- 
  

   nection 
  with 
  the 
  professorship 
  of 
  Chemistry 
  then 
  held 
  

   by 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  University. 
  

  

  No 
  assistant 
  was 
  obtained 
  until 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  

   1851, 
  and 
  the 
  gentleman 
  then 
  appointed 
  relinquished 
  

   the 
  situation 
  shortly 
  after 
  ; 
  having 
  merely 
  commenced 
  a 
  

   reconnoissance 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  of 
  which 
  no 
  report 
  was 
  

   made. 
  

  

  The 
  situation 
  was 
  tendered 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  incumbent 
  

   on 
  the 
  14th 
  of 
  January, 
  1852. 
  Since 
  that 
  time 
  he 
  has 
  

   been 
  occupied 
  in 
  the 
  performance 
  of 
  the 
  duties 
  com- 
  

   mitted 
  to 
  him, 
  which 
  were 
  somewhat 
  augmented 
  by 
  an 
  

   amendatory 
  act 
  of 
  the 
  Legislature, 
  passed 
  after 
  his 
  ap- 
  

   pointment, 
  by 
  which 
  a 
  room 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  House 
  was 
  set 
  

   apart 
  and 
  placed 
  under 
  his 
  charge, 
  for 
  the 
  better 
  pre- 
  

   servation 
  of 
  the 
  collections 
  in 
  Natural 
  History, 
  which. 
  

   as 
  the 
  State 
  Geologist, 
  he 
  was 
  required 
  to 
  make. 
  

  

  