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of a state geologist, who, in turn, was allowed the appointing of not more than four assistants, who were to be skilful chemists, and of such other other subordinate assistants as he might deem necessary. The work of the survey was to include stratigraphic and structural geology and special studies of economic geology. Annual reports were required, and a final report, or a complete memoir on the geology of the state, was to be prepared on the completion of the survey. Specimens in triplicate were to be collected and forwarded to the Secretary of State; one set for a cabinet in the state capitol, another for the state university, and the last for the city of St. Louis. Ten thousand dollars annually for a term of two years were appropriated.
Pursuant to the instructions of this law, Professor G. C. Swallow was appointed state geologist by the governor in 1853. Professor Swallow came directly from Maine, where had had been engaged in teaching. The survey continued in active operation until, June 1861, under the direction of Professor Swallow. The controlling plan of the work as laid down by him, in the letter of transmittal accompanying his second annual report, was to prepare: "First, an outline of the geology of the state; second, a general view of the mineral wealth of the mining districts; third, an exposition of the agricultural and manufacturing resources of the state; fourth, reports in detail upon as many counties as possible."
Five reports were published by this survey, but the second, of 447 pages (with which is printed the first, of but four pages) is the only one which embodies the results of field work, and this is the one generally known as the Swallow report. The others are very brief reports of administration and progress. Part I of this Second Annual Report contains chapters by Professor Swallow on the general geology of the state and two county reports; Part II contains a chapter by Dr. Litton on the lead mines of southeastern Missouri, and three county reports by Meek and Shumard, as well as several general cross sections and a short paper on paleontology.
After the issue of this report the survey continued in active