Causes leading to establishment of first survey; Resolutions providing
for survey; Resolutions relative to distribution of reports; Resolution
providing for printing new edition of reports; Appointment of Edward
Hitchcock, State geologist; Administration and personnel; Ex-
penses; Publications; Resolution of 1837 providing for renewal of sur-
vey and for publication and distribution of reports; Administration;
Expenses; Benefits; Resolution relative to survey of public lands of
Maine and Massachusetts..
First survey under Douglass Houghton; Act of establishment, 1837;
Act with reference to improvement of salt springs, 1842; appointment
of Douglass Houghton; First year of survey, 1837; Personnel; Second
year of survey, 1838; Salaries and personnel; Financial statement rela-
tive to salt wells; Proceedings relative to salt spring lands; Summary
of report of 1838; Third year of survey, 1839; Summary of reports;
Fourth year of survey, 1840; Abolishment of zoological and botanical
departments; Summary of report; Fifth year of survey, 1841; Resolu-
tions relative to internal improvements and copper smelting; Summary
of report; Sixth year of survey, 1842; Financial statement; Seventh
year of survey, 1843; Message of Governor Barry with reference to;
Summary of annual report; Eighth year of survey, 1844; Message of
Governor Barry relative thereto; Failure of appropriations to support
survey; Plans for lineal survey in cooperation with the National Gov-
ernment; Ninth year of survey, 1845; Failure of appropriations; Sum-
mary of reports; Financial statement; Survey after 1845; Governor's
message relative thereto; Report of committee; Resolution of 1846 rela-
tive to mining operations and to collections made by survey; Criticisms
by Alexander Winchell; Importance of Houghton's work: Survey of
1859-60 under Alexander Winchell; Act of establishment; Joint reso-
lution of 1869; Amendment of act of 1869; Administration and person-
nel; Appointment of Alexander Winchell as State geologist; Salaries;
Summary of results; Survey in 1860; Personnel and salaries; Sum-
mary of results; First biennial report of progress; Financial statement
for 1859-60; Survey from 1861-1869; Recommendations of Governor
Wisner; Financial statement of 1861; Itinerary of the State geologist;
Appropriations for 1863-64 with reference to salt borings; Reference
in 1865 by Governor Crapo to survey; Address of Winchell before the
State legislature; Before State Agricultural Society; Work by Winchell
in the Grand Traverse region; Bill for reestablishment of survey;
Geological survey of 1869; Reference by Governor Baldwin to work of
survey; Appointment under act of March 26, 1869; Appointment of
John H. Forster to investigate the copper region; Appointment of T. B.
Brooks to investigate the iron regions; Summary of report of progress
for 1869; Personnel and expenses, 1869; Geological survey in 1870; Plan
of operations; Forster replaced by R. Pumpelly; Hostility to Pumpelly;
Geological survey in 1871; Recommendations by Governor Baldwin
relative to survey; Bill relative to appropriation for publications; In-
fluences unfavorable to work of survey; Reports of committees relative
to survey; Directorship of survey placed in hands of geological board;