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Sec. 4. That the surve}'' herein provided for shall be accompanied 
with proper maps and diagrams, and furnish full and scientific descrip- 
tions of its rocks, soils and geological productions, together with speci- 
mens of the same; which maps, diagrams and specimens shall be depos- 
ited in the State Library and similar specimens shall be deposited in the 
State University, and such other literary institutions in the State as the 
Governor may direct ; provided that the survey shall be made in every 
county in the State. 
Sec. 5. That the Trustees of the State University shall cause a report 
to be made annually to the Governor, to be by him laid before each ses- 
sion of the Legislature, setting forth, generally, the progress made in 
the survey hereby required. 
Sec. 6. That this Act take effect and be in force from and after the 
first day of June next. 
Under the somewhat loose provisions and phraseology of 
this act Dr. John Millington, at the time professor of chemistry 
at the University of Mississippi, was in June, 1850, appointed 
to the position and additional duties provided for by it. No 
assistant was obtained until July 15, 185 1, when Oscar M. Lie- 
ber, of South Carolina, was appointed to the position. No rec- 
ord or report of Lieber's work was made ; during a portion of 
his incumbency (presumably in autumn of 1852), he made, on 
horseback, a reconnoissance of the Yazoo Bottom ; but nothing 
beyond that fact appears from the letters written by him un- 
der the regulation defining his duties, which provides that 
''When not actually engaged in making explorations and sur- 
veys, he shall aid the principal professor of geology, agricul- 
ture and cheinistry in the discharge of his duties ; and while 
engaged in making such surveys, he shall make reports at least 
monthly to the principal professor, and the salary of said as- 
sistant professor shall be $1,000 per annum." Lieber resigned 
on January 14, 1852. 
In January, 1852, the position was accepted by Prof. B. L. 
C. Wailes, then of the faculty of Jefiferson College, near 
Natchez. This gentleman had already made a collection of 
rocks and fossils of th^ southwestern part of the state, and 
had quite an extended knowledge of the general features of 
the latter. There was also passed by the legislature, in ses- 
sion at the time, "an act to amend an act to further endow 
the University of Mississippi, approved March 5. 1850," the 
provisions of which are as follows : 
Sec. I. That the fourth section of the above recited act be so amend 
ed as to read "Zoological" instead of "Gologica!" productions. 
