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found at Bucyrus (2d Rept., p. 127). Doctor Locke gave a 

 restoration of Asaphus megistos (2d Rept., p. 247), and many 

 valuable references to fossiliferous strata and good localities for 

 collecting fossils are to be found in the several reports. 



5. Ohio archaeology received more or less attention in many 

 of the reports. A decided impulse was given to the study by 

 the work of the survey. Doctor Locke gives a good account, 

 accompanied by a map, of Fort Hill, Highland county. 



The two reports of the first survey were limited to a few 

 thousand copies each. The volumes are eagerly sought for at 

 the present time, and command a good price whenever found in 

 the market. 



The discontinuance of the survey was a source of regret and 

 mortification to the more intelligent citizens of the State, and 

 efforts presently began to be made looking to its revival and to 

 a completion of its work. It became quite the fashion with suc- 

 cessive governors to call attention to the great desirability of 

 prosecuting the survey, and bills were introduced into successive 

 legislatures having this end in view. One such bill was intro- 

 duced by Gen. J. A. Garfield, while a member of the State 

 Senate in i860. Nothing came of these efforts, however, until 

 the legislative session of 1869. At that time, inspired by the 

 cordial recommendation and aided by the hearty cooperation 

 of Gov. R. B. Hayes, a bill was passed ordering a geological 

 survey of the State on the lines that the present state of the 

 science demanded. The law authorizing the survey was, before 

 passage, approved, in most of its details at least, by several of 

 the leading geologists of the State, and particularly by Dr. J. S. 

 Newberry, who was subsequently put in charge of the work thus 

 inaugurated. 



The support of the agricultural interest of the State was 

 again invoked in behalf of the geological survey, and the 

 unwarranted expectations of 1837 were again encouraged, of 

 large and immediately valuable results to be derived from the 

 analyses of soils and mineral fertilizers. This interest found 

 expression in the requirement of the survey, that one of the 



