APPENDIX IV. 



Report of Zadock Thompson, 



ON THE OE OLOGICAL SURVEY. 



To His Excellency, 



CARLOS COOLIDGE, ESQ., 



Governor of Vermont : 



SIR: Having been commissioned by your Excellency to carry 

 into effect a resolution of the General Assembly of Vermont, passed 

 at their session in 1848, in relation to the materials of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of the State, I beg leave to submit the following 



REPORT : 



In the fall of 1847, Prof. C. B. Adams, the State Geologist, hav- 

 ing accepted a Professorship in Amherst College, Massachusetts, 

 and being about to remove his family out of the State, directed me 

 as Assistant Geologist, to obtain a suitable room in Bnrlington, to 

 serve as a depot for the specimens and materials of the Survey 

 which were to remain in the State. The room being provided 

 about the 1st of Oct. 1847, materials, consisting of boxes of spec- 

 imens, furniture for the room, tools, &c., to the amount of several 

 tons, were forwarded from Middlebury to Burlington, and deposi- 

 ted in it. The State Geologist removed to Amherst some time in 

 October, and, expecting that provision would be made by the Leg- 

 islature for the completion of the Survey and the preparation of 

 a Final Report, he took with him the field notes and manuscripts, a 

 portion of the tools and the furniture of the depot, the specimens 

 which had been ticketed for the state collection, and all the speci- 

 mens containing fossil, or organic remains. 



