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Band in each suite have been duly delivered to such of the afore^- 

 mentioned institutions as were willing to pay the expenses of trans 

 portation from the geological depots at Middlebury and Burling 

 ton. A few fossils and specimens which have been recently trim 

 med ana ticketed, have not yet been forwarded to their final 

 destination. 



Rare and valuable specimens are placed where the State Na 

 turalist can have ready access to them while preparing for publi 

 cation his final Report on the Natural History of the State. The 

 number of specimens of rocks, fossils and minerals, which are to un 

 dergo a &quot; full and scientific examination&quot; is very great, and of 

 these many minerals and metals are to be &quot;described&quot; in a full 

 and scientific manner, to meet the requirements of the Statute of 

 1853. Apart from this laborious duty, careful and complete as 

 says and analyses are to be made, by means of which a determin 

 ation of the value of different ores and minerals can be secured j 

 and when these duties of examination, description and analysis are 

 performed, the results of the State Naturalist s labors are to be 

 systematized and prepared for publication in the mode prescribed 

 by the Statute. 



In the progress of the Geological Survey under Prof. Adams, 

 he was assisted in the field labor by the Rev. Zadock Thompson, 

 and the Rev. S. R. Hall of Craftsbury ; and the chemical analyses 

 were performed in the well furnished laboratory of Yale College, 

 by Denison Olmsted, Jun., of New Haven, Conn., who was com 

 missioned as Assistant Geologist, and served in that capacity un 

 til his death, August 15th, 1846. The report of Mr. Olmsted, 

 forms a part of Prof. Adams Second Annual Report, and is a valu 

 able portion of the Appendix. Subsequently to Mr. Olmsted s 

 death, Mr. Thomas S. Hunt, now of Montreal, was appointed As 

 sistant State Geologist, in order that his valuable services might 

 be secured in the Mineralogical department of the Survey, and his 

 reports of the chemical analyses made by him were communicated 

 to Professor Adams and appended to his reports on the Geological 

 Survey, before Mr. Hunt accepted the position which he now 

 holds of Chemist and Mineralogist to the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. 



Other experienced gentlemen were engaged in field labor and as 

 assistants. Dr. S. P. Lathrop, Messrs. L. F. Locke and Edward 



