6 The American Geologist. Jul >'- 1903 - 
making the necessary plans for the preparation of the final 
report. ..." 
"The time and funds provided by the bill for the geological 
survey will be exhausted on the first of March, 1848, and ad- 
ditional funds and time will be necessary for making out the 
results of the survey. In the annual reports but a small part 
of these results has been given and this has been done in a 
disconnected way. If we may be allowed a familiar illustra- 
tion the process of the geological survey thus far has con- 
sisted in finding and bringing together the various materials 
which are yet to- be used in the construction of the edifice. 
Some benefits we hope nave already resulted from the survey. 
but it still remains to make it a source of permanent utility." 
But to the loss of the state of Vermont, and perhaps a 
greater loss to the science of geology the master builder who 
had so carefully and so laboriously selected the material, was 
not permitted to build into a harmonious whole the edifice so, 
wisely planned. 
Professor Adams, in the last year of the survey, 1847, na ^ 
accepted a position outside of the state, a professorship at his 
Alma Mater, Amherst College, Mass. 
The state legislature at its succeeding session neglected to 
make an appropriation for this work. The cause of this fail- 
ure is not at this day quite clear. It may in great probability 
be attributed to the absence from the legislative body of those 
members who early were the advocates and supporters of the 
survey. 
The work stopped. Professor Adams issued a thin fourth 
report now exceedingly scarce, the mere shade of the final re- 
port which was so near his hand. 
The results of this period of three years' work may be 
partly summarized in the following statements. There was 
exhibited an eminent example of a careful systematic geolog- 
ical survey, there were published annual reports of the progress 
of the work ; a map was prepared of the geological formations 
of the state as these formations were then understood. La- 
belled collections of rocks, minerals and fossils were placed 
at Montpelier and with various literary and medical schools 
of the state, a mass of geological notes was accumulated. These 
last, however, were made in a private shorthand and not read- 
ily deciphered except by the one who had made them. 
