INTRODUCTION. 



the advice of the council, be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint 

 some suitable person, to make a geological examination of the Com- 

 monwealth, in connection with the general survey, in order that the 

 same may be inserted on the map which may be published, &c." 



On the 26th of June 1830, Governor Lincoln issued a Commis- 

 sion to the author of the following Report, directing him "to make the 

 geological examination of this Commonwealth, in the manner con- 

 templated by said Resolve, performing such duties relating thereto, 

 as are or may be enjoined upon you ; and obeying such instructions 

 as, from time to time, you may receive from the proper authority." 



February 2d 1831, the Legislature still further authorized His Ex- 

 cellency the Governor, "to direct the person who is appointed to make 

 a Geological Survey of the Commonwealth, to cause to be annexed 

 to his report on that subject, a list of the native Mineralogical, Botan- 

 ical and Zoological productions of the Commonwealth, so far as it may 

 be practicable to ascertaian the same within the limits of the appro- 

 priation already made for this Survey." 



The first part of the following Report with the G eological Map, 

 having been presented to the Government in the beginning of the 

 year 1832, it was ordered to be printed : and on the 24th of March 

 1 832, the Legislature " Resolved, that the 600 copies of the first part 

 of the Report on the Geological Survey of the Commonwealth, pro- 

 vided in pursuance of an arrangement made by his Excellency the 

 Governor with the advice of Council, for the use of Goverment, be 

 delivered to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and by him be dis- 

 tributed, as follows, viz. 



Four copies to the Governor ; 



Two copies to the Lieut. Governor ; 



One copy to each member of the Council ; 



One cop} 7 to each member of the Senate and House of Represen- 

 tatives ; 



Five copies to be deposited in the Library of the State ; 



And that the remaining copies be distributed as His Excellency 

 the Governor may direct." 



In the early part of 1833, the remaining parts of the following Re- 

 port were submitted in an unfinished state to the examination of the 

 Committee on Education. Notwithstanding their imperfect state, 

 however, the Legislature on the 25th of Febuary adopted the follow- 

 ing very liberal Resolves. 



" Resolved, that his Excellency the Governor, be, and hereby is 



