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three assistants should be a "skillful analytical and agricultural 

 chemist." 



By the organic law the survey was to be completed in three 

 years from the time of its organization, but, it may be added, 

 that a longer tenure was anticipated by the friends of the survey, 

 both in and out of the Legislature. Governor Hayes appointed 

 Prof. J. S. Newberry Chief Geologist, Professors E. B. Andrews 

 and Edward Orton, assistants in geology, and Hon. J. H. Klip- 

 part, assistant in agriculture. Mr. Klippart had been for a num- 

 ber of years secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and was 

 one of the most conspicuous exponents of scientific agriculture 

 in the State at this time. His connection with the survey lasted 

 but a year or two, and his only report is one that appears in the 

 Report of Progress for 1870. Prof. T. G. Wormley, a distin- 

 guished chemist, was made analyist of the survey, and a num- 

 ber of local assistants were brought into the field, some of whom 

 began their field work here. In the list of local assistants may 

 be found the names of geologists that have since become dis- 

 tinguished, such as R. D. Irving, Henry Newton, G. K. Gilbert, 

 Andrew Sherwood, W. B. Potter, J. J. Stevenson, and N. H. 

 Winchell. 



Professor Newberry was, at the time of his appointment, 

 professor of geology in the School of Mines of Columbia Col- 

 lege, New York. This position was an important and permanent 

 one, and he did not feel that it was wise to resign it for an office 

 the tenure of which was not only uncertain, but which must be 

 short at the best. He therefore undertook to carry on the duties 

 of both offices, making compensation to the State for such time 

 as was used in the New York professorship by the employment 

 of assistants at his own charges. 



The arrangement proved, in some respects, unfortunate. If 

 Professor Newberry had been able to devote all his time and 

 energy, even for three or four years, to the survey he would have 

 found plain sailing and could have had everything from the legis- 

 lature which he could reasonably ask, for the feeling of the State 

 was thoroughly favorable to the survey at the outset. But the 



