220 Forty-third Report on the State Museum. 



Geological cartographer of the U. S. Survey came to Albany in 

 September, prepared to execute the work. 



I brought together all the maps and parts of maps which had 

 been used in my own field-work or that of my assistants. The two 

 sheets of the map executed by Messrs. Bien & Co. were obtained 

 from them with a view to their use in the completion of this work. 

 These sheets were found to present the deficiencies and inaccura- 

 cies before noted to such a degree that we could make no use of 

 the map for this purpose. Mr. McGee visited New York and the 

 lithographic establishment of Messrs. Bien & Co., with a view of 

 having the proper corrections made, and the map, thus corrected, 

 used for our purpose. For reasons unknown to the writer, after 

 discussing the matter on several occasions with the Secretary 

 of the Regents, it was decided to recommend the preparation of a 

 new base map, which was undertaken by the United States 

 Geological Survey. 



This new map, on a somewhat larger scale than the one before 

 ordered, was completed and the coloring laid down in time to be 

 presented with the report of the State Geologist, in February, 1885. 



At a meeting of the Board of Eegents on the 7th of January, 

 1885, the following resolution was adopted : 



"Resolved, That the Director of the Museum be authorized to 

 arranged with the Director of the United States Geological Survey to 

 cooperate with him in the work of perfecting a geological map of the 

 State of New York, and that in the meantime the Director be author- 

 ized to transmit a copy of the map in its present state to the 

 Legislature for publication as a preliminary geological map." 



This resolution was the result of previous conferences between 

 Mr. McGee, representing the Director of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, myself and the Secretary of the Board of Regents, 

 and also with the Chancellor of the Board. 



The preliminary map referred to in this resolution was pre- 

 sented to the Legislature with the Annual Report of the State 

 Geologist and ordered published, but such work not being con- 

 templated in the contract of the State Printer, it required a special 

 appropriation, which was made in the supply bill for that year. 

 This appropriation was vetoed by the Governor ; and a similar 

 appropriation made in the following year was likewise vetoed and 

 the map still remains unpublished. 



