c societies, or institutions possessed of the requians and influence to extend material aid in this your Committee are of opinion that such patronuld, as a matter of justice as well as policy, be lly and seasonably extended by the Legislature. end for which this department of the State Uniwas established, can never be attained, if assistthis character shall be refused or grudgingly d; and that benefit which is to be derived from erience and labors of learned professors, will be - cut off. branch of science embraced and illustrated in rk, has been too long neglected to admit of furay in rendering the aid necessary to its proper ment, if the Legislature design to promote bened practical results. this view, and in conformity with the recomions of his Excellency, your Committee beg leave -t the following bill, and recommend that it be D. T TO AUTHORIZE THE PRINTING OF THE 1 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE STATE. ON 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State ssippi, That two thousand copies of the report ssor B. L. C. Wailes, State Geologist, be printed, is supervision, in quarto form, and in such mand with such illustrations and plates, therein s his Excellency, the Governor, shall deem ape and necessary for its illustration. N 2. Be it further enacted, That, when printed ad, the said report shall be deposited in the office the requ id in this ch patronpolicy, be gislature. State Uni , if assist rudgingly ved from 8, will be trated in it of fur ts proper ote bene e recom beg leave at it be F THE TURAL e State report rinted. man herein пар inted of the Secretary of State, to be by him distribute SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That one copies of said report shall be deposited in the the Secretary of State, to be sold by any agent to be appointed by the Governor, under such reg and for such a sum each, as he may deem pro advisable, for the purpose of reimbursing the publishing the same, and the balance to be di among the several counties of the State, in p to their representation in the Legislature, to be f to the people thereof, in such manner as the I Police of the several counties, shall direct. SECTION 4. Be it further enacted, That, pr the printing of said report, it shall be revised: pleted by the said State Geologist; and the por which treats of Zoology, as far as prepared, omitted, and in lieu thereof, a catalogue of the the State, as far as ascertained, be substituted. SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, The r and more efficient prosecution of the survey, ses of the marls, soils, mineral waters, and the agricultural productions of the State, shall be at the University of Mississippi, as the Trustees lesignate; and the State Geologist may, from time e, furnish such marls, soils, and waters as may be ed for analyses, and shall receive in return from hemist, full and precise reports of all analyses may be made; and specimens of the marls and hall be preserved in convenient glass bottles, in ate Cabinet, and in the Cabinet of the University, rly labelled, with the chemical character of the nce, and the locality from which the same was ed. TION 6. And be it further enacted, That the said gist shall make collections of specimens to illusthe mineral character and Palæontology of the in addition to the Zoological productions, which v he is now required to collect, and to cause them suitably arranged and preserved in the State Cabind that of the University; and any duplicates that 1, may be distributed by him among such of the orated colleges as may apply for them. TION 7. And be it further enacted, That the sum, exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, be appro1 out of any money in the treasury, to be drawn he requisition of the Governor, for the purpose of ng into effect the provisions of this Act. ION 8. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take and be in force, from and after its passage. roved March 1, 1854. E. EXTRACTS FROM DR. MILLINGTON'S REPORT About the 1st of February, 1854, Dr. Mi (late principal professor of Geology in the Sta versity of Mississippi), then connected with the School at Memphis, made a report to Governor but which was not received until several we elapsed after the Trustees of the University journed and left Jackson. The following extra the concluding part of that report, exhibits its c and extent: "An assistant geologist was provided for, who travel over the State, and make examinations vestigations under my directions, and to report he could learn, and had done, from time to ti likewise to make collections of specimens of met with, and to transmit the same, from time to the museum of the University at Oxford, wh might be deposited, and examined or analyzed, described as most necessary; and fortunately, M C. Wailes was appointed to that situation, and conducted it, as far as the examination has gon most ample and satisfactory manner, as will ap the abstract of his monthly reports to me befor All, therefore, that I have been able to do, has transcribe his reports, with occasional observati to take charge of and arrange the specimens v has sent on, which already form the nucleus of if not a very full and complete museum; and tender my warmest thanks for the assistance Mi has rendered to me, and to the cause in which been engaged. * t it has always appeared to me that the person F. ILLIAM DUNBAR'S CLASSIFICATION OF LAND CLAIMS. 【ay, 1799, when the inhabitants of the District of z were under much anxiety and suspense respecttitles of their lands, Mr. William Dunbar, an gentleman by birth, of a liberal and scientific on, who came to this country in 1773, and under ceeding Spanish administration had superintended of the surveying in the Natchez District as the of Don Carlos Trudeau, the Surveyor-General of vince Louisiana, in writing on the subject of d clams, makes the following classification of The shades of distinction between some of them. y slight, and, as far as the essential conditions of are concerned, may be comprised in the two 1 |