428 Scientific Intelligence. 
Mr. Gabb has continued the work of figuring and describing the fossils 
collected by the survey ; he has also been employed during a part of the 
time in the field. 
In the zoological department, Dr. Cooper has been engaged from April 
Ist, a part of the time at Santa Barbara and on the adjacent islands, col- 
lecting marine and land animals, and afterward in the Sierra Nev 
He is now employed in preparing a catalogue of the animals of the State, 
Professor Brewer has continued the collection of botanical specimens, 
and chiefly in the high Sierra, where much that is new and interesting 
has been discovered, no collectors in this department having ever before 
visited our highest mountain regions. The task of working out the bo- 
tanical and zoological collection has been proceeded with, and portions of 
vorts received from some of the eminent authorities to whom various 
subdivisions of the collections had been referred. 
t seems proper, at the present stage of the survey, to make 
amount and character of the printing to be done this winter will depend 
on the settlement of the question whether the survey is to be continued; 
and if so, for what probable length of time. 
Undoubtedly, were the State in a position i 
with advantage, since all will admit that the results proposed to be gained 
by a work of this kind, if it be properly conducted, could not fail to be 
tions to the Executive and Legislature, how much time and money } 
been and are still being expended in other countries in works of this kind, 
as for instance in Great Britain an rance, ut the degree of perte 
tion to be aspired to in such an undertaking must be governed by er 
cumstances ; and if we consider that it would require a population oF 
71,000,000 within the borders of our State in order that our asp 
The farthest limit of completeness to which I ever aspired pct bs 
le expect, and a personal experience of the condition of the treasti’» 
Lore convinced me of the impossibility of carrying out this undertaking, 
