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through them all, but will merely add that great pains have been taken 

 with the illustrations of the natural history volumes to make them 

 such as will, while possessing a high scientific value, be most useful 

 to students. And at the same time economy has been studied, so 

 that I am fully justified in assuring you that, while our series will be 

 more complete than those of any other State, they will also have 

 cost much less. 



In fact, this idea has been constantly in my mind, while engaged 

 in the Survey, that our work was the necessary preliminary of the 

 University and the cultivation of science on this coast in general, and 

 I have endeavored so to shape our plans that when our task has been 

 completed the way shall be smoothed for others to carry on- that which 

 we have begun ; for so inexhaustible on this is nature in her ways and 

 works, that we cannot look forward to any time when the student can 

 fold his hands for want of something to do, in the way of enlarging 

 the boundaries of either natural or physical science. 



I need not enlarge on the importance of our full and authentically 

 named collections, in the various departments, to the State Univer 

 sity. They will form the foundation of a museum invaluable for the 

 purposes of instruction, and such a one as could not have been 

 brought together without a thorough and systematic plan of oper 

 ations. The collections are amply sufficient to justify their being 

 divided, and I trust that when they pass out of our hands they may 

 be made as available as possible, both for scientific and popular in 

 struction. This can be best accomplished by giving one series to 

 the University, and the other to the Academy of Sciences, in San 

 Francisco, in which latter place a museum will be accessible to a 

 much larger number of persons than it would be anywhere else, and 

 where our materials would be added to a large and rapidly increas 

 ing collection, in charge of the only scientific association on the 

 coast, and which, in time and with the growth of a liberal and scien 

 tific spirit in this State, will have the means to display them in a 

 suitable manner and to preserve them from destruction. 



Finally, I conceive that the Survey ought to be carried on because 

 it has been begun not only because it has been indorsed by several 

 successive Legislatures, and by eminent scientific authority at home 

 and abroad, but that the State may not be making an exhibition of 

 herself, in the eyes of the world, as a specimen of fickleness and un 

 reliability. Having published far and wide that we were going to 

 have a thorough geological survey, and having been liberally patted 

 on the back for our energy and far-sightedness, I can conceive of 



