XXV111 REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST. 



ferent geologists. A more complete and detailed statement of this 

 work will appear in the report of next year. 



THE MUSEUM. 



The museum cases supplied by the Capitol Furnishing Board were 

 put in place in April, and as the specimens then on hand completely 

 filled them, the unexpended balance of the first appropriation for the 

 Survey was used to purchase additional cases for the preservation of 

 the material collected by the field parties. These cases and their ar- 

 rangement in the hall of the Museum are from designs most kindly 

 furnished by Mr. Gr. Browne Groode, Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and are admirably adapted for the purposes intended. 

 While they are well filled with specimens, the work of unpacking, 

 labelling, and studying the various collections as they came in, has up 

 to the present prevented anything like a systematic arrangement of the 

 material shown. Mr. J. B. Walker has had charge of this work since 

 April 1. 



LIBRARY. 



Books of reference are most necessary to the geologist, and there 

 were very few in the State Library having any reference to the work. 

 I have done what I could to remedy the deficiency by securing such 

 works as I was able to obtain by correspondence and exchange or pur- 

 chase, but the amount of money that I could use for this purpose was 

 so small and the volume of necessary literature so great that we are 

 still very much hindered in our work by reason of this deficiency. 



OFFICE WORK. 



The routine work of the office has been very considerable, and while 

 it has required much time and close application, it is not of such a 

 character as to be detailed, or even summed up in any but the most 

 general terms. In it I have had the assistance of Mr. J. L. Jones dur- 

 ing the entire year, and of Mr. C. C. McCulloch, Jr., when he was not 

 in the field. 



