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The science of the Union is beginning to be represented. The high position of its representatives is acknowledged and respected in the older communities in the seats of learning which have long held supremacy in philosophical investigation. The scientific character of the several members of the Union is an object of anxious interest with all, and the Association which is here represented has been established to aid in bringing together and combining the labours of individuals who are widely scattered, into an institution that will represent the whole. The purpose of the Association being "the advancement of science," the committee represents its earnest hope in praying the State Governments who have suspended or imperfectly carried out their surveys, to renew them until fully completed, and such as have not yet engaged in them, to have them instituted.

In conclusion, the committee respectfully, but earnestly, recommends not only the establishment of surveys, but also the publication of reports with proper illustrations, as the intimate connection of the associated sciences is such, that plates of the fossils are essential to a proper understanding of the geologic results.

Trusting that your honourable body will appreciate this expression of the Association, here briefly given, we are, with great respect,

Your obediant servants,

Robert W. Gibbes, M.D. Columbia, S.C.
E. Hitchcock, D.D. Pres't. of Amherst College, Mass.
H.D. Rogers, State Geologist of Pennsylvania.
L. Agassiz, Prof. of Geology, Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge.
B. Silliman, Prof. Chemistry and Geology, Yale College.
S.G. Morton, M.D. Philadelphia.
C.T. Jackson, M.D., U.S. Geologist, Boston.
J.W. Mathews, Gov. of Mississippi.
G. Troost, M.D. State Geologist of Tenn.
W.B. Rogers, Prof. Nat. Philos. and Geology, University of Virginia.
J. Hamilton Couper, Daren, Geo.
T. Romeyn Beck, M.D. Prof. Mat. Med. Albany Med. College, N.Y.
Jos. Delafield, Prest. Lyceum of Nat. History, New York.
Lewis C. Beck, Prof. Chemistry, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J.
Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington