STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
No. 275. 
IN ASSEMBLY, 
February 27, 1839. 
COMMUNICATION 
From the Governor, relative to the Geological 
Survey of the State. 
Mbany, February 23, 1839. 
TO tbEe assembly. 
By an act of the Legislature, passed on the 15th of April, 1836, the 
Governor was authorized and directed to employ a suitable number of 
competent persons, whose duty it should be under his direction to make 
an accurate and complete geological survey of this State; which survey 
should be accompanied with proper maps and diagrams, and furnish a 
full and scientific description of the rocks, soils and minerals of the 
State, and of its botanical and zoological productions, together with 
specimens of the same. It was further provided, that such maps, dia- 
grams and specimens should be deposited in the State library, and that 
similar specimens should be deposited in such of t"he literary institutions 
of the State as the Secretary of State should direct. 
The act appropriated $26,000 annually, during four years, to defray 
the expenses to be incurred, and directed that the person or persons who 
should be employed should annually make a report to the Legislature 
before the 1st day of February, setting forth generally their progress in 
the survey. 
I have received a communication from my predecessor, in which he 
informs me that on the first of January last the following persons were 
employed in the several departments, and for the compensation respec- 
tively mentioned, viz: 
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