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(B.) 
MR. GEBHARD'S REPORT. 
State Geological Rooms, ? 
Albany^ February 12, 1851. y 
To the Hon, Christopher Morgan, Secretary of Stat and 
T. RoMEYN Beck, Secretary of the Regents of the University : 
Gentlemen, — In compliance with your instructions, pursuant to the 
power and authority vested in you by virtue of the act of the Legis- 
lature of the State of New-York, entitled " Am act to provide for the 
completion of the Geological Survey of the State," passed April 10? 
1850, directing me to make out and deliver to you, 
First, A brief statement, setting forth in which of the departments 
of the Geological Survey of the State the publication is completCy 
and in which of the departments it remains incomplete and unfinished. 
Second, A statement, in detail, of all the materials intended to 
be used in completing the publication of the Geological Survey of 
the State, which were in the custody of the State in the Geological 
Rooms, on the 10th day of April, 1850 ; and, 
Thirdj A like statement of all such materials, intended for the 
same purpose, received into the Geological Rooms since the 10th day 
of April last, and up to the date of this communication, — I would 
respectfully 
REPORT: 
That in obediedience to those instructions, I have endeavored to 
ascertain and collect all the facts within my power bearing upon the 
matters embraced in your inquiries, and to present the result of my 
examinations in as concise a manner as is compatible with a full un- 
derstanding of the subject. 
The length of time that has elapsed since the commencement of 
the publication, the various artists who have been employed on the 
unfinished portions, and the want of a consecutive system in finishing 
the plates, have been the means of mystifying the matter, and render- 
ed it almost impossible to arrive at correct and accurate information 
as to the present state of the unfinished portions of the publication of . 
