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REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST.
future wok, and recommendations as to methods of conducting
the work.
Pages 29-35 are given to a report by A. D. Hager, which is
mainly a report of progress and statement of plans. The Appendix,
pp. 37 -47, contains an obituary of Professor Zadock
Thompson. Then follow two legislative acts for the government
of the survey. After this pp. 55 -57 contain Professor
Thompson's report as assistant, in which he gives the details of
his disposal of the property of the survey. This is followed by
a report from the Committee on Education of the Senate
respecting the survey. Pages 65-73 give extracts from an ad--
dress given in Boston by Professor Thompson on The Natural
History of Vermont.
Next is given the text of an act setting apart a room in the
State House for the arrangement of the collections of the
survey.
This is followed by the elaborate plan including proposed
contents of the final report which Professor Thompson had
drawn up not long before his death. The report closes with
two other tinimportant appendices.
Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Vermont, by
Edward Hitchcock, State Geologist, Burlington, 1857, pp. 12.
This is little more than an outline of work done and contemplated.
Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Vermont, by
Edward Hitchcock, State Geologist, Burlington, 1858, pp. 13.
This is like the preceding, a report of progress with suggestions
as to a final report.
Preliininar'y Report on the Geology of Vermont, by Edward
Hitchcock, State Geologist, Mon tpelier, 1859, pp. M.
This report opens with a brief account of what has been done
from the beginning of Professor Adams's work, and a statement
of the contents and design of the final report to which this
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appears to be preliminary. In fact it is printed as a sort of
introduction to the final report in the first volume.
Report on the Geology of Vermont, two volumes, quarto, pp. 988,
Plates 36, Figures 365. by Edward Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock,
Jr., Albert D. Hager, Charles H. Hitchcock, Claremont, N. H.
These volumes contain a great deal of material to which the
Student of Vermont geology niust often refer and which is of
real value. It is very much to be regretted that some parts of
this report are lacking in scientific accuracy and exactness of
statement. Soon after the publication of the final report Presi-
(lent Hitchcock retired from the work, and his death followed
iii 1864.
As the two volumes of the final report are much more commonly
found in libraries than those previously mentioned, a
detailed account of their contents is not necessary. Briefly, the
main topics treated are as follows: Part I, pp. 55-250, consists
of a discussion of the drift and allied glacial phenomena and of
the Tertiary beds of Brandon with over sixty figures of the
fossil fruits. Lesquereux's descriptions of these are given in
volume II, P. 712. Part II treats of "The Hypozoic and
Palaeozoic Rocks," pp. 251-451. In this section the different
formations exposed in Vermont are more or less fully and more
or less accurately taken up. A few of the characteristic fossils
are figured. Part III, pp. 452-5 56, takes up "The Azoic
Rocks," i. e., gneisses, schists, slates, etc.
Part IV, which forms the first part of the second volume,
treats of similar rocks, though in a somewhat different manner.
This covers pages 5 59- 594.
Part V. pp. 595-682, gives notes on thirteen sections taken
across the State, with lists of the specimens of stone collected.
Part VI, pp. 683-690, gives a list of mineral localities and of
the mineral species in the State Cabinet at Montpelier.
Part VII, pp. 691-718, contains sundry chemical analyses and
other items, including the descriptions of fossil fruits mentioned
above.