REPORT. 



SAN FRANCISCO, November 25th, 1867. 

 To His Excellency, 



FRED'K F. Low, 



Governor of California : 



SIR : The geological survey of this State has been carried on during 

 the past two years under authority of the Legislature, approved by 

 yourself April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Consequently, 

 the office of State Geologist will expire, by constitutional limitation, on 

 the fourth day of April next. 



The geological survey has now been going on just seven years, as 

 operations were commenced about December first, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty, the State Geologist having arrived in San Francisco JNovember 

 fourteenth of that year. The amounts which have been appropriated 

 by the different Legislatures for the purpose of the survey are as follows: 



Making an average of fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars a year. 

 In my letter to yourself, dated January first, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-six, and published by order of the last Legislature, I gave a suc 

 cinct statement of the condition of the work of the survey at that time, 

 and I will now proceed to recapitulate, as briefly as possible, what pro 

 gress has been made, both in the fieldwork and in the publication, 

 department, since the date of that letter. 



I will first, however, allude to our plan of operations, as gradually 



