STATE GEOLOGIST.
I again call your attention to the great importance of more liberal appropriations to the Department of Geology and Natural Science established in connection with the Indiana State Board of Agriculture. That department has assuredly fulfilled all the just expectations that were formed concerning it, notwithstanding the disadvantages under which it has continuously labored ever since it had an existence. The rooms of the State Geologist are too circumscribed for the accommodation of the constantly increasing business of the department, and his salary is inadequate support of his family, much less to compensate him for the arduous labors and varied learning required by the position.
I trust that these deficiencies will be remedied and that provision will be made for the completion at an early day of the geological survey of the entire State.
