FLORIDA STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
E. H. SELLARDS, STATE GEOLOGIST
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT.
The members of the State Survey during the past year have been, in addition to the State Geologist, Mr. Herman Gunter and Dr. R. M. Harper. The chemical analyses necessary to the work of the State Survey are made by the State Chemist.
Mr. Gunter has assisted in the preparation of the paper on the artesian water supply of Eastern Florida. In addition he has had charge of cataloging and recording the Survey collections.
Dr. Harper has prepared a preliminary paper on the peat resources of the State. The fuel tests of peat samples, in connection with this work, were made in the fuel testing laboratory of the United States Geological Survey.
In addition to the necessary correspondence and administrative work of the office, the State Geologist has prepared papers on the phosphate deposits, on certain variable lakes, and on the artesian water supply.
\PUBLICATIONS ISSUED.
The Second Annual Report covering the operations of the Surveyto June 30, i909, was issued during the year This report contains: (I) Administrative Report; (2) a preliminary report on the Geology of Florida with special reference to the stratigraphy including a tographic and geologic map cif Florida prepared in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey;
(3) the topography and geology of Southern Florida; (4) mineral industries; (5) the fullers earth deposits of Gadsden County with notes on similar deposits found elsewhere in the State.
DISTRIBUTION OF REPORTS.
The reports issued by the Survey are distributed upon request to citizens, and to city and other public libraries. The results of the survey thus become permanently available to those interested in the geology and mineral resources of the State.