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examination of the formations exposed in the bluffs of the Ohio River 

 between Shawneetown and Cairo. 



The act appropriated the sum of $3,000 a year for carrying on the 

 work. In 1853 the amount was increased to $5,000, with $500 addi- 

 tional for topographical purposes. Up to January, 1857, some 

 $27,000 had been expended, though no report appears to have been 

 made. 



The usual trials of a State geologist seem to have come upon the 

 path of Mr. Norwood and perhaps some that were unusual. Be that 

 as it may, a committee was appointed to investigate the conditions of 

 the office. The committee reported, however, that in their belief the 

 money had been well expended, a large amount of work had been done, 

 and that well done, and they recommended an appropriation of the 

 sum of $6,500 to enable Mr. Norwood to 

 complete a report on the economic resources 

 of the State, on which he was then engaged. 



The report of the committee seems, how- 

 ever, to have failed of its purpose, since the 

 only outcome was a small octavo pamphlet 

 of less than 100 pages devoted wholly to a 

 discussion of the coals of the State, accom- 

 panied by a considerable number of analyses. 

 This report bore the date of 1857, and 

 was Norwood's last as well as first/' It was 

 accompanied by a small, one-page, colored 

 geological map of the State. 



Presumably, all members of the legisla- 

 ture were not as favorably disposed toward 

 Doctor Norwood as were the members of the investigating committee, 

 for the following year (1858) he was supplanted by Mi'. A. H. Worthen, 

 who had been connected with James Hall on the State survey of Iowa. 



In 1852 the question of the reestablishment of the geological sur- 

 vey of Indiana was agitated, but nothing came of it until the following 

 year, when, acting under a recommendation of Governor J. A. Wright, 

 second Attempt at a the le g' islatui 'e i"^le a small appropriation to become 

 nfdiani ca il5 U 2 rveyof nvaual:>le in January, 1854. With this for a beginning, 

 the governor appointed Dr. Ryland T. Brown State 

 geologist. The venture was, however, short lived. Brown made but 

 one report, which the legislature refused to publish, and at the 

 same time refused further appropriation for continuing the survey, 



"In 1855 Norwood, in connection with Mr. Henry Patton, published in the Jour- 

 nal of the Academy of Natural Sciences a paper comprising some 77 pa.ges <>f text 

 relating to the work thus far done. 



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