622 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



value. After Prof. Hager, Dr. Norwood had temporary charge of the survey till 

 Prof. Raphael Pumpelly was appointed, in the latter part of 187 1. He entered 

 upon his duties in the spring of the following year, and during this year the iTia- 

 terial for his report, forming the third bound volume, was collected. This report 

 was an octavo, published in 1873 by Julius Bien, of New York. The volume is 

 divided into two parts; the first, of 214 pages, devoted to the great iron interests 

 of the State; the second, 441 pages, discusses the perhaps equally great coal inter- 

 ests. Most of this was the work of Mr. Broadhead. The work is accompanied 

 with a large atlas. Under Mr. Pumpelly, eight counties were surveyed. On his 

 resignation in the summer of 1873, G. C. Broadhead was unanimously appointed 

 State Geologist. He, with the assistance of Mr. C. J. Nowood, surveyed fifteen 

 additional counties, and published in 1874 a report of about Seepages with num- 

 erous figures and a series of maps. Dr. Adolph Schmidt, who was at one time 

 director of iron works in Europe, and afterward in charge of extensive Bessemer 

 steel works, gave great attention to the iron ores of the State during the last two 

 administrations. Many other assistants were employed from time to time on the 

 survey. Owing to mistaken notions of economy, the Legislature of 1874 voted to 

 discontinue the survey and turn over its property, collections, etc., to the State 

 School of Mines at Rolla. From that time to the present nothing has been done. 



Without entering at all into the details of the work thus far accomplished, 

 and without even noting some ^^^/^rt?/ results of more or less value, we find that 

 less than half of the counties have been examined, and even these, through no 

 fault of the geologists in charge or their assistants, have not been examined at all 

 exhaustively. Enough has been done, however, to show that the State is re- 

 markably rich in all those natural products which contribute most largely to her 

 material prosperity. What is now imperatively needed is to have this vast wealth 

 so thoroughly investigated, presented in correct and inteUigible form, and given 

 to the world, that it shall afford the much needed assistance to her own citizens, 

 and shall attract the large immigration to her soil which she can so bounteously 

 support. Individuals and corporations have expended much in private surveys 

 for their own special purposes, and immigration societies and local associations 

 have published, with more or less fulness and accuracy, representations of the 

 peculiar attractions in certain sections. These, however, are necessarily limited 

 and fragmental, and are often highly colored to meet the ends each party has in 

 view. 



An impartial, comprehensive, and thorough showing of the State's resources 

 can be had only by disinterested and competent geologists, conscious of their re- 

 sponsibility to the public and true to the interests of science. To such a source 

 explorers will confidently look for facts regarding the wealth which the earth 

 possesses; and the settler will there find a satisfactory exhibit of the natural 

 wealth of his future home, and, by the use of these revelations of scientific re- 

 search, he can study beforehand the country, select, bound, and parcel his claim, 

 locate his buildings, and carry with him an accurate picture of it all. For this pur- 

 pose much attention should be given to the construction of topographical maps of 



