. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY DECADE F 1840-1849. 391 LS44 that the final .steps were taken resulting in the appointment of Prof. C. B. Adams as State geologist. Adams was educated at Phillips Academy and Amherst College, and subsequently attended the theo- logical seminary at the last-named place. In 1836 he ni Ve^IIt! became a tutor at Amherst and for a brief period was assistant to Professor Hitchcock in his work on the geological survey of N
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. AMERICAN GEOLOGY DECADE F 1840-1849. 391 LS44 that the final .steps were taken resulting in the appointment of Prof. C. B. Adams as State geologist. Adams was educated at Phillips Academy and Amherst College, and subsequently attended the theo- logical seminary at the last-named place. In 1836 he ni Ve^IIt! became a tutor at Amherst and for a brief period was assistant to Professor Hitchcock in his work on the geological survey of New York. When appointed State geologist of Vermont he selected Zadock Thompson as his chief assistant, Denison Olmsted, jr., and later T. Sterry Hunt aiding in mineralogy and chem- istry. Rev. S. R. Hall, of Craftsbuiy. was employed to look after the agricultural features. Up to March. 1848, the survey continued in a fairly prosperous condition, a large amount of material being col- lected, both in the way of specimens and notes, but at the session of the legislature for this year appropriations were for sonic reason with- held and the work stopped. Four reports in all were issued, the last a mere pamphlet of eight pages. The purpose of the surve}^, as stated in the first report, was to collect and analyze the soil, the simple minerals, both of eco- nomic and scientific importance, and to make investigations into the character and limits of the geological formations. The reports on the whole were extremely frag- mentary. Doctor Adams dying before the manuscript of the final report was pre- pared, a large part of his work was lost, this mainl}T owing to the fact that he took his notes in a "peculiar shorthand, which onl}T he could ' As suggested b}' Pro- fessor Thompson, it would have required more labor to decipher his notes than to go over the ground anew. The second annual report was prepared—as was not infrequently the case at that date—in the form of a genera
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