138 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
make or complete their feted and physical maps. They have 
to measure heights—they have to determine the composition of the soil— 
and they are charged also 3 on exploration of matters of public util- 
ity, such as result from the nature of the soil, relation to agriculture, 
the valuation of uncleared lands which the State may have for sale, th 
indications of all the quarries and all the mines that may be found in 
the district. 
‘“* These are the very important functions which the state geologists, 
as they are called, have to perform. ‘True enlighteners of scie 
of industry, they have a much greater mission to fulfill than pls of the 
engineers of mines in France, even more than those who are charged 
at the same time with the execution of geological maps, and the super- 
intendence of mines and furnaces. In Europe, geologists have rarely 
to give indications such as are required of the American a in 
— the principal quarries and mines have been for a long time 
know 
4 si ‘Am merica, where civilization advances daily into countries which 
had not before been cleared, the geologists have to pursue the science 
in all its several parts, because no part of the work has been done in 
advance ; and they have to proceed in a methodical manner. When 
they have seit rit a mine, they have even to make known the 
method of workin 
“ Their mission ny also to the examination of the productions of 
the soil, to the description of the Flora and Fauna of the country, 50 
ee “i 
Circular on a Staiue. to Geoffroy y St. Hilaire, 9 pone to Dr. 
Geiscie T. Jackson, President of the Association of American Geol- 
ogists andNaturalists, Prost hee for the Amer. Joe of <a by C. 
T. Jackson.)—With the desire of responding to a wish which has been 
strongly manifested in sate and throughout the rest of Europe, it bas 
been decided that a hae in bronze should be erected by subscription 
mory of one of the greatest naturalists of the nineteenth cen- 
mon- 
or the monuments to Cuvier.—They would have believed hat were 
sive injustice ms their societies, which are so renowned and so glori- 
s to America, if they had admitted fora rots that an enterprise 
F this kind would not awaken the same sentim 
ery spin, on the other hand authorizes taal to eee that the 
hor of the Philosophy of A who by his gemiu: 
conecived and se the grand principle of unity i in structure, an 
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