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the State should be made, and appointed a staff of 

 surveyors under the able direction of Professor Henry 

 Bogers, whose knowledge and labours in geology 

 and natural history generally are so highly appreciated 

 by those who, like myself, have had the pleasure 

 of many years acquaintance with him. This survey, 

 after a lapse of five or six years, was completed. 

 A large expenditure of money had been incurred on the 

 part of the State, and of valuable life on the part of 

 Professor Henry Kogers. The manuscript, with maps, 

 sections, and drawings, was deposited in the office of the 

 secretary of state, and there all have since been permitted 

 to lie. The first cost is sacrificed to the dread of the 

 expense of publication. Science is retarded, for she has to 

 do again by other hands what had already been well done 

 by most capable labourers. The reputation of the State 

 geologist is sacrificed, because others are gradually anti 

 cipating and publishing what he ought to have had the 

 credit of first making known ; while the State itself, for 

 the sake of a few paltry dollars, is losing the opportu 

 nity of acquiring for itself a distinction among the 

 patrons and promoters of positive knowledge, similar to 

 that which the New York State has obtained through the 

 publication of the twenty quarto volumes of beautifully 

 illustrated Natural History. A work which, when it 

 came fresh from the hands of the State-surveyor, was 

 full of novelty, may, in reality, be behind the state of 

 the science and valuable, therefore, chiefly to the history 

 of scientific progress when the State Legislature shall 

 at length resolve upon its publication. 



I cannot pretend to know how far a laudable desire 

 to remove the stigma of repudiation may have re 

 strained the hands of the State Legislature from spending 

 money not absolutely necessary for the maintenance of 

 State institutions and establishments, until the honour 

 of the country was re-established in the eyes of its credi- 



