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as State Geologist in 1854 he entered upon a general study of the 

 whole State, and presented the results of his investigation in 1855 

 to the General Assembly in his first biennial report, entitled, "A 

 Geological Reconnaissance of the State of Tennessee". 



He was continued in the office of State Geologist until 1899 except 

 during the time of the Civil War and the period of reconstruction, 

 from 1860 to 1871. His most important State Report, probably his 

 greatest work, was made in 1874, and was published by order of 

 the General Assembly, being "Geology of the State of Tennessee, 

 pp. 550, with plates and map". This same work, revised and en- 

 larged, was included in "An Introduction to the Resources of Ten- 

 nessee", published in 1876 by order of the Bureau of Agriculture. 

 Two other important reports which he made as State Geologist were, 

 one in 1887, consisting of more than 100 pages, to the Bureau of 

 Agriculture on "The Agricultural Geology of Tennessee", and one 

 in 1889 to the General Assembly, dealing principally with the coal 

 area of the northwestern portion of the Tennessee coal fields. 



Reference only can be made here to other papers of his published 

 in The American Journal of Science, 2nd series. Vol. XVI, XXII, 

 XXVI, XXXI, XXXVII, XLII; in the Naural Gas Supplement, 

 No. 2; American Manufacturers and Iron World, December' 

 30, 1887; the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, 1889; in the American Geological Railway Guide, 2d 

 edition, 1890; in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 

 volumes III, XIII; and in the American Geologist, volumes XIII 

 and XVIII. Their titles are given in the bibliography appended to 

 this paper. 



Dr. Safford was one of the judges at the International Exposition 

 at Philadelphia, 1876, and made the report on the geological and 

 mineralogical collections there. He served in like capacity at the 

 Cotton Exposition at Atlanta in 1882, and at the Louisville Exposi- 

 tion in 1883. He was the chief of the department of Geology, Min- 

 eralogy and Mining at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897. 



Beginning in Vol. I of the Tennessee State Board of Health, 1880, 

 and continued in Vol. II, 1885, is an article by Dr. Safford on "The 

 Geological and Topographical Features of Tennessee in relation to 

 Health and Disease." He probably planned a more complete dis- 

 cussion of the question, as in the article only three of the eight nat- 

 ural divisions of the State are considered. 



