MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 27

name of the Board, that the co-operation of the transportation and
express companies is particularly desired in furthering the work
of the survey.

13. That this officer be also authorized to say, in the name of the
Board, that the friendly aid of the teachers in the higher educational
institutions of the state and of other enlightened citizens will be
appreciated by the Board and gratefully acknowledged.

OFFICERS OF THE SURVEY.

The following permanent officers of the Commission were nomi-
nated and elected, viz.: Lloyd Lowndes, Governor of Maryland, Presi-
dent; Daniel C. Gilman, President of the Johns Hopkins University,
Executive Officer; K. W. Silvester, President of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College, Secretary. Wm. Bullock Clark, Professor of Geol-
ogy in the Johns Hopkins University, was chosen State Geologist.

In accordance with the resolutions adopted, the State Geologist
proceeded at once to organize the survey. The offices granted by the
Johns Hopkins University upon the third floor of its Front Building,
on Howard Street, were made ready for occupancy and properly
equipped with the apparatus necessary for conducting the operations
of the survey. A corps of geologists was at once selected to take
up the study of the geology and natural resources of the state along
various lines.

PLAN OF OPERATION OF THE SURVEY.

The objects of the Geological Survey of the state, briefly set forth
in the act under which the present organization is established, are
more fully elaborated in the following pages. It is desirable at the
beginning that the citizens of the state should fully understand these
objects, in order that they may gain the greatest benefit possible from
the operations of the survey. The future work and publications
may at times be subject to misinterpretation unless their connection
with the general scheme which has been formulated is entirely com-
prehended.

The plan which has been outlined embraces two general divisions,