286 The American Geologist. May, 1901. 
Sec. 2. That tlic room adjoining the State Library, formerly occu- 
pied by the Sur.veyor-General. be appropriated and set apart for the de- 
posit and .'^afe-keeping of such specimens as may be collected during the 
progress of the geological survey, provided for in the above recited Act; 
and that the sum of 200 dollars be appropriated, out of any money in the 
State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of fit- 
ting up and preparing said room for the reception of said specimens. 
Sec. 3. That the fitting up of said room shall be done under the di- 
rection of the Governor, upon whose requisition the auditor shall issue 
his warrant for the sum herein appropriated, or so much of said sum 
as may be necessary. 
Sec. 4. That the said room after being so fitted up shall be under the 
charge of the State Geological Society, who shall be authorized to em- 
ploy the librarian as curator of the same. 
Sec. 5. That the said room shall be open to the public during such 
hours as the State Librarj' is now required by law to keep open, and 
the librarian shall be allowed an additional compensation of $50 per 
annum for the services required by the 4th section of this Act. 
It will be noted that by the verbal correction made in the 
first section of this act, the surve}" was practically made a com- 
plete natural history survey : since the only branch not specif- 
ically provided for — botany — might be understood to be nec- 
essarily included in the provisions for an agricultural survev. 
The State Society mentioned had but a very ephemeral exist- 
ence. During the two succeeding years, viz : 1852 and 1853, Mr. 
W'ailes traveled chiefly in the southern and eastern part of the 
state with his own team and outfit, examining the territory of 
the cretaceous in northeast Mississippi and the tertiary and 
quarternary areas in the southern part of the state. 
Collections of tertiary fossils, especially from the shell bed 
at Jackson, were sent by Wailes to Conrad, and mammalian 
and other bones from the loess to Leidy. for determination 
and description ; and collections of these and other fossils as 
well as of rocks were bv him deposited, both at Oxford and 
at Jackson. 
In January, 1854, Wailes presented *i:o the Board of Trust- 
ees of the University of JNIississippi the manuscript of his re- 
port on the work of the two preceding years, which was trans- 
mitted through the governor to the legislattire, with the rec- 
ommendation that it be printed. The legislative committee 
to whom it was referred reported back the following act, which 
was passed and under which the survey was thereafter carried 
on for a ntimber of vears : 
