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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I4TH ANNUAL REPORT 
PURPOSE AND PLAN OE the survey 
The State Geological Survey was established by the ‘Legislature of 
1907. Section 3 of the Act gives a broad definition of the purpose of 
such Survey and specifies that investigations shall be made regarding the 
“minerals, water supply and other natural resources of the state,” and 
further stipulates that there shall be included “in such report full de¬ 
scription of such surveys and explorations, occurrence and location of 
mineral and other deposits of value, surface and subterranean water 
supply and power and mineral waters, and the best and most economical 
methods of development, together with analysis of soils, minerals and 
mineral waters, with maps, charts and drawings of same.” 
There has been no change or amendment to the foregoing, which 
sets forth that the purpose of the Survey is to obtain information on the 
occurrence of various mineral and other natural resources. Thus the 
law proposes a distinct economic aim in that such investigations should 
be of assistance in the development, conservation and utilization of the 
state’s natural resources. The results of investigations shall be pub¬ 
lished annually and thus become available to those interested. 
That the Survey also has an educational aim is seen from Section 4. 
This provides for “the collection of specimens illustrating the geological 
and mineral features of the state.” Sets of these are to be deposited 
with each of the state colleges. Both through the printed reports and 
by collections of the mineral resources and geological specimens the 
Survey acts as an educational medium. 
The plan of investigation, as outlined in the First Annual Report, 
has been maintained, namely, that of taking up some one resource and 
reporting on it rather than making incomplete reports on the varied re¬ 
sources. Those natural resources already reported upon are detailed 
in the following list of publications: Many of the whole reports are no 
longer available owing to exhaustion of supply. These are indicated by 
an asterisk (*). The separate papers making up the whole volume are, 
in many instances, still available. These are followed by the dagger 
sign (f). 
First Annual Report, 1908, 114 pp., 6 pis.* 
This report contains: (1) a sketch of the geology of Florida; (2) a chapter on 
mineral industries, including phosphate, kaolin or ball clay, brick-making clays, 
