STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
No- 124. 
IN SENATE, 
May 12, 1845. 
REPORT 
Of the minority of the select committee, in relation 
of the Natural History of the State. 
The undersigned, one of the select committee appointed on the 
subject of the Natural History of the State of New- York, makes the 
following 
REPORT : 
In 1836, (see Session Laws of that year, page 195,) the Legis- 
lature passed an act to provide for the geological survey of the State, 
whereby the Governor was authorized to employ a suitable number 
of competent persons, to make an accurate and complete geological 
survey of the State, to be accompanied with proper maps and dia- 
grams, and which should furnish a full and scientific description of 
its rocks, soils and minerals ; and of its botanical and zoological pro- 
ductions, together with specimens of the same ; which maps, dia- 
grams and specimens, should be deposited in the State Library. The 
same act appropriated twenty-six thousand dollars annually, for four 
years, to defray the expenses which should be incurred under that 
act ; and it also directed, that the persons employed should make a 
report annually to the Legislature, setting forth generally the progress 
made in the survey authorized by the said act. 
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