ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT.
 HERMAN GUNTER, STATE GEOLOGIST.



 INTRODUCTION.
 The Florida State Geological Survey was created by an Act of the Legislature of 1907. The Act provided for the appointment of a State Geologist, and specified his duties; it detailed the object of the Survey, and appropriated $7,500 a year for its maintenance.
 The Act establishing the Survey has in no wise been changed until by the Legislature of 1923. During the session of 1921 an Act was passed creating a Budget Commission for the State of Florida. This Act made it the duty of each of the State Departments to submit an estimate of the amount needed for the two-year period beginning July 1st, 19,23. The appropriation for the maintenance of the Survey as effected by the Appropriation Bill was increased from $7,500 annually to $10,345.
 Since the publication of the Fourteenth Annual report the Geological Survey's force has been, in addition to the 'State Geologist, Mr. M. K. Cooke, Assistant, whose services terminated November 1, 1922. Mr. Olin G. Bell was'employed'as special or temporary assistant during the three-month summer period of 1922, which time was spent in the field preparatory to the report on the clays of Florida comprised in this volume. Mr. Strauss L. Lloyd also rendered a few day's special service to the field party while investigating the clays of Hernando and Citrus counties. Sam E. Cobb, Jr., was employed temporarily and rendered assistance in cataloging specimens and other general office work. Mrs. Mabel Lee rendered half-time service as stenographer from September, 1922, to March, 1923.