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1823.— Major Stephen H. Long. To the source of St. Peter's River, Lake 

 AVinuepeclc, Lake of the Woods, etc. 



1834. — G. W. Featherstonhaugh. Elevated country between ^Missouri and Red 

 River. 



1835. — Ct. W. Featherstonhaugh. Green Bay to Coteau de Prairie or from 

 Missouri to St. Peter's River. 



1838-42.— Wilkes, U.S. Exploring Expedition. 



1839. — David Dale Owen. Geological Exploration of part of Iowa, Wisconsin 

 and Illinois. 



1842-44. — Captain J. C. Fremont, Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon 

 and North California. 



1843. — I. N.Nicollet. Basin of upper Mississippi River. 



1846-50. — During these years there were seven or eight reports of minor 

 military expeditions in connection with Texas, New Mexico and the Santa Fe 

 route to California. 



1848. — Lieut. J. W. Abert. Geographical examination of New Mexico. 



1851 — Prof. L. Agassiz. Examination of Florida Reefs, Keys and Coast. 



1852. — David Dale Owen. Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 



1852. — Captain R. B. Marcy. Red River of Louisiana. 



1853. — Captain Howard Stansbury. Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. 



1853-54. — Exploration and survey to ascertain the most practicable and 

 economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 

 12 volumes. Published from 1855 to 1860. 



1854, — Captain L. Sitgreaves. The Zuni and Colorado Rivers. 



1854. — Captain R. B. Marcy. The Brazos and Big Wichita Rivers. 



1855. — David Dale Owen. Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. 



1855-57. — Lieut. G. K. Warren. Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota. 



1857. — Lieut. -Col. W. H. Emory. United States aud Mexican Boundary 

 Survey. 



1857-58. — Lieut. Joseph C. Ives. The Colorado River of the West. 



1859. — Captain J. H.Simpson. Great Basin of Utah. 



1859. — Captain J. N. Macomb. Santa Fe to Grand and Green Rivers. 



1859-60. — Captain W. F. Raynolds. Yellowstone and ]\Iissouri Rivers. 



1871-75. — Lieut. George M. Wheeler. Exploration and Survey west of 100th 

 Meridian. There are over thirty publications as the result of this survey. 



1871-77.— Clarence King. Geological Exploration of 40th Parallel. Published 

 in six annual reports of progress, followed by six volumes of scientific contributions 

 by his co-workers. 



Although the Federal Government of the United States down to 1867 had not 

 established a regular geological survey and conducted the exploration of the terri- 

 tories by semi-military expeditions generally under control of the engineering 

 department of the army, several of the State governments established surveys 

 before 1835, and Sir William Logan in 1844 refers to "the liberal view of their own 

 interests, which, during the last ten years, has induced not less than twenty of the 

 State Legislatures of the American Union to institute investigatit>ns into the 

 mineral resources of their respective territories," etc. I, at one time, intended to 

 prepare a list of the various State surveys now covering almost every State, which 

 have been conducted during the last sixty-seven years, or thereabout, indicatuig 

 when each survey began and the extent of tlie publications, but I have found this 



