300 The American Geologist. ^'^>'' ^^'^^• 
in the previous act defining the objects of the survey; but pro- 
■vides for the appointment of an assistant geologist at a salary 
of $1,500; enlarging the limits of the annual "expenses neces- 
sarily incurred in fitting up a chemical laboratory," and repeal- 
ing the provision for keeping an office at Jackson ; permitting 
the alternative of having it at Oxford. An appropriation of 
three thousand five hundred dollars is made for printing the 
report, "with such diagrams and maps as the governor shall 
deem necessary for its illustration ; and it is herebv especially 
enjoined upon his excellency, in the publication of said book, 
to have the vsame performed at the South, if the same can be 
done at an advance of ten per cent, upon the cost of its publica- 
tion at the North." 
The latter clause was a charactertistic sign of the times. The 
act was approved by the governor, February 10, i860. It was 
soon and easily ascertained that the five thousand copies of tlie 
volume could not be printed anywhere at the South at an ad- 
vance of ten per cent, on New York prices ; but Governor Pet- 
tus declared that he would not allow it to go North under any 
circumstances, even if it had to remain unprinted. Esti- 
mates prepared by Mr. E. Barksdale, the state printer, showed 
that to do the work in his office would cost over $4,000, at the 
lowest estimate I placed upon the uncompleted manuscript. 
Finally, Mr. Barksdale proposed that if I should be personally 
responsible for $250 of the excess of cost over the amount al- 
lowed by the state, he would cover the rest ; and I accepted the 
proposition. The governor relented so far as to allow the map, 
which could not be furnished by any Southern establishment, to 
be prepared bv the Coltons, at New York ; the other plates were 
prepared at New Orleans. The printing was begun at Jackson 
in May, i860 : the latter parts of the report were largely written 
while the first portions were passing through the press. But 
several forms were not yet in print when in August imperative 
matters called me to Europe, and Prof. W. D. Moore, who had 
previously aided me in working up the lists of fossils, under- 
took to see the remainder of the work through the press. Hence 
there remain in tlie latter part of the book a number of uncor- 
rected errata, of which none, however, are of material conse- 
quence. 
In this report (which excejjt as otherwise credited in the 
