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versitv was not only fully recognized, but its place was made 
first in tlie scheme. The main department of the University 
instruction was entitled ‘‘Science, Literature and the Arts. 11 
President Folwell’s plan, while providing for the professional 
and literal classes the old college discipline in its best form, 
also was calculated to furnish to the industrial classes that 
“liberal and practical education” contemplated in the laws 
which had conferred upon her a large part of her endowments. 
A great number of prominent American educators testified their 
approval of this plan. With slight modifications it has re¬ 
mained to this day, and all the developments which the institu¬ 
tion has witnessed in its undergraduate course and in its pro¬ 
fessional schools, have been in general accord with the early 
forecasts and recommendations of the first president. 
In president Folwell’s second report, dated Dec. 1, 1870, may 
be found the first suggestion for a geological survey of the 
state under the auspices of the University. “I would respect¬ 
fully submit the question whether steps might not soon be 
taken towards the employment by the state of our scientific in¬ 
structors in making a complete survey, geological, mineralogical 
and topographical, of the state. A prime object on our part 
would be the opening of a grand field of practical instruction 
for the young men taking scientific courses.” In accordance 
with this suggestion the Legislature of 1872 enacted the organic 
law of the survey, as drafted by Pres. Folwell. This survey 
was begun in the fall of that year and has continued to the 
present without interruption. 
With the commencement of this survey began the rapid 
growth of the museum, and the equipment of the departments 
of geology and zoology in the University. The work of the 
survey itself was continually expanding. Soon it became neces¬ 
sary first to separate chemistry from the natural sciences, and 
then to divide the department of natural sciences into separate 
professorships, requiring the appointment of new men. Where¬ 
as when the appointment of the state geologist was first made 
he was expected to do a certain amount of teaching in the under¬ 
graduate course in the University, in about six years he was re¬ 
lieved of this and directed to devote himself entirely to the 
supervision of the survey and the museum. At the present 
time, in addition to some temporary and one constant assist- 
