GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF KANSAS AND MISSOURI. 593; 



the salient, physical and geological features pertaining to each division and to the 

 whole State. With the consummation of these preliminary exploration the detail 

 investigation of these divisions shall be begun, commencing with the oldest geo- 

 logical formation, and expanding the work by the detail survey of each county 

 until the whole territory of the State shall have been thus systematically explored. 

 For the greater expedition of this work the geologists shall further devote their in- 

 vestigations to special formations and districts, as far as may be, thereby allowing 

 the examinations to be carried on in all parts of the State at one and the same 

 time. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said geologist in charge to make as complete 

 a series of examinations of the superficial geological deposits as shall aid to an 

 understanding of the origin, character, and extent of the different sorts of soils, 

 the probability of obtaining water by means of artesian wells, especially in the 

 western counties; also of all rock exposures, coal-beds and other mineral deposits 

 as practicable, and the information thus gained shall be embodied in such notes,. 

 diagrams and sections as may be necessary for the clearer elucidation of the local, 

 structural and stratigraphical features of the geological formations occurring in 

 each county, and over the entire State. 



Said geologist shall also secure as complete collections as possible of the min, 

 erals, rocks, soils, fossils, salines, and mineral waters occurring in the State that 

 in any way have a value as aids to a thorough knowledge of its geological his- 

 tory. 



A complete suite of said collections to be retained in the museum of the 

 Kansas Academy of Science at the Capitol where they shall be classified and ar- 

 ranged, and be a permanent exhibition of the geological survey; a full series of 

 the duplicate specimens similarly classified and authenticated to be placed at the- 

 disposition of the State University, State Agricultural College, and State Normal 

 Schools. The geologist in charge shall also be authorized to use every means in 

 his power, not otherwise interfering with the efficient conduct of the survey, to 

 make accessions from abroad of geological material to the collections of the sur- 

 vey that may in any way contribute to the value of the economic, and education- 

 al results of the same. 



Sec. 5. The said geologist in charge shall cause to be submitted to the 

 chemist all ores, minerals, rocks, soils, salines, and mineral waters the chemical 

 investigation of which may be of economic and scientific utility; also 1 he chemist 

 shall be afforded practical facilities for the prosecution of researches in the field 

 wherever such may be essential to the interest of knowledge or of practical utili- 

 ty : and he shall in all cases be required to report the results of his analyses and. 

 investigations to said geologist. 



Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of said geologist in charge to submit to the 

 Governor on or before the first Monday in January of each year, a concise report 

 of progress of the field-work for the current year in which the more important, 

 economic results shall be made public. 



Sec. 7. At the earliest practicable date the geologist in charge shall pre] are 



