Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1896 The report of the Director, Dr. Brooks, will be found in the appendix. The Legislature of Maryland, at its session in the Winter of 1896, established a State Geological Survey, and provided for its maintenance. The Bill became a law March 19, 1896, and is printed in the appendix. The University placed at the disposal of the Survey a suite of rooms and the use of its library and collections, and consented to the appointment of Professor William B. Clark, to be the Director of the Survey. The field work began as soon as the weather permitted, and was carried on until the late Autumn. Dr. Clark has furnished for this report a sketch of what the Survey has undertaken, and a perusal of what he has said will show that the work will be prosecuted with spirit and skill, in coopera tion with the United States Geological Survey, Professor Walcott, Director. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.