STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
No. 406. 
IN ASSEMBLY, 
May 3, 1839. 
MESSAGE 
From the Governor, transmitting two several re. 
ports in relation to the Geological Survey of the 
State. 
Albany^ May 3, 1839. 
TO THE ASSEMBLY. 
I transmit a report from John Torrey, M. D. Botanist, and also an 
extract of a communication from J. E. De Kay, M. D. Zoologist^ which 
documents may be considered as supplementary to my communication 
of the twenty-third day of February last, relative to the Geological 
Survey of the State. 
I avail myself of this occasion to express my conviction that those 
gentlemen are discharging the responsibilities assigned to them with 
diligence and distinguished ability. 
WILLIAM H, SEWARD. 
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