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  APPENDIX. 
  

  

  sissippi 
  University, 
  on 
  the 
  Agriculture, 
  Geology, 
  and 
  

   Natural 
  History 
  of 
  Mississippi, 
  which, 
  in 
  pursuance 
  of 
  

   an 
  order 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  has 
  

   been 
  presented 
  as 
  required 
  by 
  law 
  to 
  the 
  Governor, 
  and 
  

   which 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  submit 
  for 
  the 
  consideration 
  

   of 
  the 
  Legislature. 
  

  

  The 
  Board 
  of 
  Trustees 
  express 
  their 
  entire 
  satisfac- 
  

   tion 
  with 
  the 
  able 
  manner 
  in 
  which 
  Prof. 
  Wailes 
  has 
  

   discharged 
  his 
  duties, 
  and 
  as 
  an 
  individual 
  member 
  of 
  

   the 
  Board, 
  I 
  concur 
  in 
  their 
  unanimous 
  opinion 
  in 
  favor 
  

   of 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  report. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  a 
  series, 
  which 
  will 
  form 
  the 
  Geological 
  

   Ilistor}^ 
  of 
  our 
  State, 
  and 
  is 
  preceded 
  by 
  an 
  interesting 
  

   historical 
  outline 
  of 
  the 
  discovery 
  and 
  early 
  settlement 
  

   of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  Territorj^, 
  with 
  other 
  valuable 
  statis- 
  

   tical 
  information, 
  which 
  wdll 
  be 
  useful 
  and 
  interesting 
  to 
  

   the 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  I 
  recommended 
  the 
  printing 
  of 
  the 
  report 
  by 
  the 
  

   authorit}^ 
  of 
  the 
  Legislature 
  in 
  neat 
  and 
  durable 
  style, 
  

   and 
  in 
  such 
  numbers 
  as 
  will 
  be 
  sufficient 
  for 
  distribution 
  

   in 
  our 
  own 
  State, 
  and 
  for 
  partial 
  distribution 
  in 
  other 
  

   States. 
  

  

  Should 
  the 
  printing 
  of 
  the 
  report 
  be 
  ordered 
  as 
  recom- 
  

   mended, 
  it 
  is 
  proper 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  I 
  am 
  informed 
  by 
  Prof. 
  

   Wailes, 
  that 
  the 
  preliminary 
  historical 
  outline 
  is 
  not 
  en- 
  

   tirely 
  finished, 
  the 
  period 
  during 
  which 
  the 
  country 
  was 
  

   subject 
  to 
  the 
  Spanish 
  rule 
  having 
  yet 
  to 
  be 
  supplied 
  to 
  

   bring 
  it 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  surrender 
  of 
  the 
  coun- 
  

   try 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  

  

  The 
  department 
  of 
  Zoology 
  is 
  also 
  incomplete, 
  and 
  

   there 
  are 
  blanks 
  in 
  the 
  tables 
  of 
  statistics, 
  to 
  be 
  filled 
  up 
  

   when 
  the 
  census 
  returns 
  are 
  published, 
  and 
  several 
  

   plates 
  representing 
  the 
  fossils 
  and 
  geological 
  sections, 
  re- 
  

   quired 
  properly 
  to 
  illustrate 
  the 
  report, 
  are 
  yet 
  to 
  be 
  

   added. 
  

  

  