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STATE OF NEW-YUKK. 
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No. 200. 
IN ASSEMBLY, 
February 20, 1838. 
COMMUNICATION 
From the Governor, relative to the Geological Survey 
of the State. 
TO THE ASSEMBLY. 
1 have the honor herewith to transmit to the Assembly, the annual 
Reports required from the persons engaged in the geological survey of 
this State. By the law authorizing this important work, the direction 
as to the mode of executing it, is committed to the Governor. He 
communicated to the last Legislature the arrangements he had made in 
performance of the duty thus devolved on him. It was thought expe- 
dient by the Governor, that the persons engaged in this survey, should 
have an opportunity of consulting together, and making such sugges- 
tions to each other and to him, as to the manner of executing it, as 
would be likely to produce the best results. 
On the invitation of the Governor, they assembled in November, 1836. 
In addition to the arrangements which had been made to carry into ef- 
fect the views of the Legislature which authorized the survey, the board 
recommended that a person should be employed, to be denominated a 
Palaeontologist, whose exclusive duty it should be to execute that part 
of the work which related i6fossile remains. This recommendation of 
the board, together with the reasons by which it was sustained, the Go- 
vernor submitted to the Legislature at the last session, with a view to 
ascertain how far the suggestion was likely to meet with its approval. 
The resolutions of the Assembly, the branch of the Legislature to which 
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