Report of the State Geologist. 221 



All applications for the means of carrying out these plans of 

 cooperation have been refused me. In 1887 a bill passed. the 

 Assembly giving $1,300 for this purpose*, but the measure was 

 defeated in the Senate Finance Committee by hostile influences. 

 Subsequently a resolution passed the Assembly authorizing the 

 State Geologist to assume the ownership of the map and thus 

 secure its publication in any manner he should see fit to adopt. 

 This measure was defeated in the Senate Committee. The map 

 still remains unpublished, and all means of cooperating with the 

 Director of the United States Geological Survey have been 

 refused, and no progress toward " perfecting a geological map " 

 has been made on the part of the State of New York. In the 

 meantime, however, private enterprise has done something. Mr. 

 Dana has continued his work in the eastern counties of the State, 

 and Professor Dwight of Vassar College, has continued his work 

 in Dutchess county. The ofl&cers of the United States Geological 

 Survey have contributed largely toward its present degree of 

 completeness. 



In the meantime the Director of the United States Geological 

 Survey has prepared a base map on a considerably larger 

 §cale than the former one, and embracing parts of New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania with the purpose of showing the relations of 

 the New York geology to the Coal Measures of the latter State. 



In the preparation of this map and the expense of collecting 

 and' collating information. Major Powell has expended " not less 

 than four thousand dollars" and the map has remained unutilized 

 for nearly four years for the want of some action or cooperation 

 on the part of the State of New York. 



I have copied from the report of the State Geologist for 1884 

 the following statement : 



Geological Map of the State. 

 [From the Report of State Geologist for 1884, pp. 4-8, 1885.] 



With the report of 1883 (published 1884), I communicated an out- 

 line or skeleton map as a basis for a geological map, together with 

 colored maps of some portions of the country which had been more 

 criticalfy studied, for incorporation into the general map. 



A contract was made by the State Printer with Messrs. Julius Bien 

 & Co. for a complete map of the State to serve as the base for laying 

 down the geological work. This map was not completed in time for 

 the publication of the report, and no finished copy was furnished til 



