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Vi REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST. Plate XXXVI. General View of Chippen Bay, G. W. Perry, Photo------ Plate XXXVII. Caves at Chippen Bay, G. W. Perry, Photo... Plate XXXVIII. Chippen Point, Looking South, G. W. Perry, Photo..... -. Plate XXXIX. Contact, Black River and Trenton, G. H. Perkins, Photo - 121 Plate XL. Trenton Limestone, McBride Bay, G. W. Perry, Photo Plate XLI. Trenton Beds McBride Bay, G. \V. Perry, Photo 122 Plate XLII. Contact, Trenton and Black River, G. H. Perkins, Photo - :::::::• Plate XLIII. Overhanging Chazy Cliffs, Beach Bay, G. W. Perry, Photo ... .... 124 Plate XLIV. Chazy Cliffs, Wilcox Point, G. W. Perry, Photo_ Plate XLV. Chazy Cliffs, Phelps Point, G. W. Perry, Photo-------------------- 126 Plate XLVI. Phelps Point, G. W. Perry, Photo Plate XLVII, Great Layer of Chazy, Phelps Point, G. \V.Perry,Photo_.. -- 128. Plate XLVIII. Map of the Southern Part of Grand Isle, Drawn by E. Brainerd. - Plate XLIX. Headland of Utica, Allen Point, G. W. Perry, Photo ........ Plate L. Large Dike, Robinson Point, G. W. Perry, Photo I Plate LI. Cliff of Utica Shale near Sandbar Bridge, G. W. Perry, pZ::: -. 132 Plate LII. Middle Portion of Same Cli G. W. Perry, Photo 132 Plate LIII. Eastern Portion of Same Cli G. W. Perry ........................ Plate LIV. Sections, Southern Grand Isle, Drawn by E. Brainerd ............... Plate LV. Map of Providence Island, Drawn by E. Brainerd .................. 136 139 Plate LVI. Strephochetus ocelatus, Drawn by H. M. Seely ................... ī6 Plate LVII. " Strephochetus, Sections, Drawn by H. M. Seely -------------- - Plate LVII. Strephochetus, Microscopic Sections, Drawn by H. M. Seely - Plate LIX. Block of Chazy Limestone, made of Strephochetus, G. W. Perry, Photo 158 TO FACE PAGE - STATE OF VERMONT, OFFICE OF STATE GEOLOGIST, 122 BURLINGTON, VT., October 10, 1902. 123 To His Excellency, William W. Stickuey, Governor of Vermont: 525 SIR.—In accordance With the provisions of Act No. 6, I have the honor to present herewith my Statutes of 1900, 1901 report as State Geologist for the years and 1902. 129 The somewhat increased appropriation which has been at it possible to disposal during these two years has made work than could be accomplished undertake more extensive years of my term of office. in the preceding 133 As a consequence, it is believed that the present report will he found more valuable than its predecessors. Through the assistance of Dr. Richardson, of Dartmouth '57 College, and Mr. Finlay and Mr. Shimer, of Columbia Univeram able to present a not inconsiderable amount of matter i5 9 V sity, Plate LX. Cli Black River Limestone, Chippen Point, G. W. Perry, Photo.... 16, of no small scientific value. Plate LXI. Glaciated Black River Limestone, G. W. Perry, Photo •:...... 162. on Grand Isle is intended as a beginning of a Plate LXII. Trenton Cli McBride Bay, G. W. Perry, Photo My own work 165, survey of the whole State. This survey complete geological ill necessarily occupy several years, but it is highly important w I that it be done and as rapidly as the means at the disposal of this office will permit. In addition to the necessary field and office work connected with the survey of Grand Isle, there have been tested, and more or less completely analyzed, several hundred samples of ores, a and rocks which were supposed to contain something minerals These, of value and on that account sent for examination. with the very large correspondence which has been carried on, have effectually prevented the office from being a sinedure. I am very respectfully yours, GEORGE H. PERKINS, State Geologist.
INTRODUCTION. The history of geological work in this State has been eventful and in some respects extraordinary. As early as 1836 the attention of the Legislature was called to the importance and value of a geological survey, and in 1837 Mr. (afterwards Governor) Eaton as chairman of the committee on education made a carefully prepared report in favor of such survey, but nothing was done until 1844, when an act was passed enabling the Governor to appoint a State Geologist who was to be a person possessing a competent knowledge of scientific and practical geology and mineralogy" and who should "commence and prosecute a thorough geological survey of the State," etc. A moderate sum was appropriated to enable the Geologist to carry out the instructions of this act. The Governor appointed as the first State Geologist Professor Charles B. Adams, at the time connected with Middlebury College, a man eminently fitted for the position. He began the work of his office in the spring of 1845. He did much exploring and studying, but the results of his labors were largely lost, as will appear later. He published four preliminary reports. Professor Adams died in 1853. Professor Zadock Thompson, who had been Professor Adams's assistant from the first, was appointed his successor. Professor Thompson, though entering upon his office with enthusiasm, published no general report, still, as will be seen by reading his biography, he had planned a very extensive and complete work on the natural history of Vermont. To this as well as much other work, death, which came in 1856, put an end. • As Professor Thompson was so fully identified with not only the geological but all scientific work that was carried on in the State during the last twenty years of his life, it has seemed no more than a fitting testimony to the value of his labors that the following sketch of his life, originally published by the writer in The American Geologist, Vol. XXIX, p. 65, should be given in this connection.
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