GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF OHIO. | 7 
without making any provisions for office expenses, assistance, etc. It was 
thought at that time that a few months’ work per year would be sufficient 
to maintain the Survey abreast of geological developments. 
The powers and duties of the State Geologist under this act were 
made so broad and general as to permit carrying on almost any work, 
so that no new legal provision was thought necessary in connection with > 
re-opening the work of the survey under the Fourth organization. The 
sum designated in Section 5 is not made a limiting condition of the law, 
so that the Legislature may appropriate any other amount, at its discretion, 
for carrying on the work. 
Acting under this law, the Legislature has made the following appro- 
priations for geological work: 
Designation of Legislature. Year. Ruseae eat 
Seven BMG a ace 1900 $2,500 00 | 
SSyeminy-lOwwrdN 2550000000000 1901 $3,500 00 
SEVSMACIEMUIN  sccacccsscesodog GY $9, 000 00 
? SEEMING oo od eg bo bao 06 1903 $3,000 00 
Sei Seth | ROG te Wate 1904 $2,800 00 
ae ae AR Sis Aa ee bk Coe $2,900 00 Seame | 
ORGANIZING THE SURVEY. 
During the interval between the appointment of a State Geologist in 
1899 and the appropriation of funds for the support of the Survey in 
1900, the nature of the work to be undertaken, the equipment and prop- 
erty of the Survey left from the preceding administration, the men avail- 
able for carrying on new work, and kindred matters were considered. 
It was thought that the salient point of the geology of the state had 
been well worked‘out by the preceding organization, and the economic side 
of the question had been considered at much length. But neither science 
nor industry stand still, and in the decade or more which had passed since 
most of the work had been done, great changes had occurred. These 
