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1 [Jan. 5. 1874]

As required by the act "to provide
for a complete Geological Survey of
Wisconsin" approved March 19th 1873, I
now have the honor to report the progress
made, and the results attained during
the first year of the Survey, and also
to lay before you the maps, profiles and
drawings, necessary to Exemplify the same.

Requirements of the law.

In addition to the geological
survey proper, to which alone the title
refers, and which is defined to be an
Examination of the geological structure
of the State, including the dip, number,
magnitude, order and relative position
of the various strata, their richness in
useful materials, the accessibility of such
materials for mining and manufacture; with
a chemical analysis of rocks +building stone;
this law also provides for Mineralogical
Agricultural and Topographical surveys.

The Mineralogical Survey Contem-
plates an Examination of the minerals to be found