NJDEP - NJGS - First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of the ...

'REPORTOF HENRY WURTZ, CHEMIST .AND _[IhrERALOGIST._EW JERSEY _rATE LAB0nATOI_Y_ !Trenton, January Dr, 1855.To .Dr. WiUiam _itehell, Stato Geologie_(SI_:--On entering upon the duties of r_y appointment onthe first dky of ]-qovcmbcr last, my first care.was to select usuitable place for a laboratory, in which to perform the ann. alytieal and other work required of me' by my instructions:Such a place having bceu procured, it was necessary to devotemore than half of the. very limited time set apart for thework of this season to the furnishizlg and fitting up of suchlaboratory, procuring the requisit_ app_atus, and preparingthe reagents and other materials required, in that state ofperfect purity necessary to the performance of reliable analyses;so tht_t when I found myself prepped to commencework, from three to four weeks only of the :speCified periodremained, _time altogether too short'for the performance of' any extended chemical investigation•Operations wcrc commenced, ho_Vevcr, all at once, upondx of the specimens collected by you, comprising four varietiesof ealcarcous marls and two of c_carcous sintcrs, andalthough it has been found impossible to bring these analysesquite to a final close, yet by dint of constant application, anamount ef labor has been accomplished which could scarcelyhave been expected, not less than fifty-five qu_iatitative deter-NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY