﻿REPORT. 
  

  

  TO 
  THE 
  HONORABLE 
  THE 
  REGENTS 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNIVERSITY. 
  

  

  Gentlemen: 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  2d 
  of 
  June, 
  1836, 
  I 
  was 
  appointed 
  by 
  Governor 
  Marcy, 
  Mi- 
  

   neralogist 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  and 
  was 
  entrusted 
  

   with 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  " 
  which 
  relates 
  to 
  an 
  examination, 
  a 
  scien- 
  

   tific 
  description, 
  and 
  a 
  chemical 
  analysis 
  of 
  its 
  soils 
  and 
  minerals." 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  discharge 
  of 
  the 
  duty 
  thus 
  assigned 
  to 
  me, 
  I 
  from 
  year 
  to 
  year 
  

   visited 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  mineral 
  localities 
  in 
  the 
  State, 
  collected 
  many 
  

   suites 
  of 
  specimens 
  for 
  the 
  General 
  Cabinet 
  and 
  for 
  distribution 
  to 
  the 
  sev- 
  

   eral 
  colleges, 
  and 
  devoted 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  my 
  time 
  to 
  arranging 
  the 
  materials 
  

   collected, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  analysis 
  of 
  such 
  rare 
  and 
  useful 
  products 
  as 
  seemed 
  

   worthy 
  of 
  particular 
  examination. 
  At 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  1842, 
  the 
  

   final 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  my 
  investigations, 
  under 
  the 
  title 
  of 
  the 
  

   Mineralogy 
  of 
  New-York, 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  Governor 
  Seward, 
  five 
  annual 
  

   reports 
  having 
  been 
  previously 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Legislature. 
  

  

  Although 
  since 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  Mineralogy 
  in 
  1842, 
  my 
  con- 
  

   nection 
  with 
  the 
  survey 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  has 
  ceased, 
  I 
  have 
  still 
  endeavored 
  

   to 
  keep 
  pace 
  with 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  this 
  department 
  of 
  science. 
  The 
  

   additions 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  thus 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  make 
  to 
  the 
  former 
  report 
  are 
  

   so 
  considerable, 
  that 
  I 
  am 
  induced 
  to 
  offer 
  them 
  to 
  the 
  Regents 
  as 
  a 
  

   supplement 
  to 
  that 
  work. 
  I 
  consider 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  most 
  fortunate 
  circumstance 
  

   that 
  the 
  preservation 
  and 
  increase 
  of 
  the 
  invaluable 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  are 
  

   placed 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  a 
  Board 
  who 
  duly 
  appreciate 
  the 
  importance 
  of 
  

   Science, 
  in 
  all 
  its 
  multifarious 
  departments. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  only 
  further 
  to 
  say, 
  that 
  the 
  arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  no- 
  

   tices 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  that 
  followed 
  in 
  the 
  Mineralogy 
  of 
  New- 
  York. 
  

   Your 
  obedient 
  servant, 
  

  

  LEWIS 
  C. 
  BECK. 
  

  

  Rutgers 
  College, 
  December, 
  1849. 
  

  

  