FUNDS NEEDED 115 



mineral product of the eastern part of the state, is evident to all. 

 The time for action has certainly come if this great resource is 

 to be shared by our children. 



VI. FUNDS NEEDED. The survey should publish other 

 bulletins during the coming period : 



Bulletin VII, on the Geography, Geology and Coal Resources 

 of Northwestern South Dakota, especially Harding and Perkins 

 Counties; Bulletin VIII, a preliminary report on the birds of 

 South Dakota ; Bulletin IX. A revised "List of the Plants of South 

 Dakota." 



The Legislature appropriated $3,000 for the past biennial 

 period. In consideration of the work which ought to be done and 

 the reports now awaiting publication, we feel that the appropria- 

 tion for the coming period should be at least $2,000 or $2,500 a 

 year. If all problems outlined above are to be advantageously un- 

 dertaken a larger fund will be required. 



The policy of the Survey is to do those things which will be 

 of the most real value to the people of the State. This work 

 should be educational as well as simply utilitarian in character. 

 The advancement of knowledge, as well as the development of in- 

 dustries, must be an aim of this organization. The State Survey 

 of South Dakota exists for all the people of the state. The Sur- 

 vey cordially invites the hearty co-operation of all the people of 

 South Dakota. 



To assist in making the work of the Survey as efficient as 

 possible, Professor Christian P. Lommen of the Department of 

 Biology, and Dr. Alfred N. Cook of the Department of Chemistry, 

 of the State University, fill the positions of Biologist and Chemist 

 respectively. 



ELLWOOD C. PERISHO, 



State Geologist. 



