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results of this and previous work, of either individuals or surveys, 

 into a convenient form for reference. 



Acting under this authority the commissioners in 1874 appointed as 

 State geologist J. P. Lesley, a topographer of the first survey under 

 Rogers, and subsequently connected, in the capacity of topographer 

 and geologist, with various private surveys — a one-time clergyman, and 

 then professor of geology in the University of Pennsylvania. Annual 

 appropriations were made, amounting during the thirteen years in 

 which the survey existed to $545,000. Under these seemingly favor- 

 able auspices the second survey was inaugurated. With Lesley was 

 associated from time to time, in one capacity or another, a consider- 

 able number of individuals, among whom mention may be made of 

 C. A. Ashburner, C. E. Beecher, J. C. Branner, J. F. Carll, H. M. 

 Chance, E. W. Claypole, E. V. dTnvilliers, L. G. Eakins, Persifor 

 Frazer, F. A. (Tenth, C. E. Hall, T. S. Hunt, A. E. Lehman, Leo 

 Lesquereux, A. S. McCreath, F. Prime, jr., J. J. Stevenson, I. C. 

 White, Arthur Winslow, and G. F. Wright, 



From the work of this organization has sprung the most remarkable 

 series of reports ever issued by any surve3 T . Up to and including 1887, 

 when held work was practically discontinued, there had appeared some 

 77 octavo volumes of text, with 35 atlases, and a "Grand Atlas." 

 These were followed in 1892 and 1895 by the three octavo volumes 

 constituting the final report. 



A very large portion of the work of this survey fell beyond the 

 time limits mentally set for the present history. It may, however, be 

 stated that the main energies of the organization were directed toward 

 the solving of economic problems," and, as was the case with the 

 Rogers survey which preceded it, more attention was devoted to 

 chemical and physical than to paleontological questions. Lesquereux, 

 who had been responsible for what paleobotanical work was done 

 under Rogers, was commissioned to extend his investigations, and in 

 1880 and 1884 issued three reports of text and one atlas on the Coal 

 Flora. The strictly paleontological work done from 1875 to 1880 was 

 that of J. J. Stevenson and I. C. White, along the West Virginia, 

 Ohio, and New York borders. 



« 1 have been obliged for the last fourteen years to direct the State survey almost 

 exclusively in an economic direction, so as to make the whole of every appropriation 

 bring as much fruit to the business, community as possible, neglecting, in what 

 systematic geologists may possibly or probably consider a shameful manner, strictly 

 scientific researches. Even when I have ordered long and extensive scientific 

 researches (as in the case of the analyses of the Lower Silurian limestone series oppo- 

 site Harrisburg) it has been, not in the spirit of transcendental science, but with the 

 express intention to use the results directly as applied science to the economical 

 demands of the State. It can hardly be understood by outsiders how completely a 

 State bureau is shut up to this necessity. 



Yours, respectfully, J. P. Lesley. 



