Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

franklin Institute of Pi,iIadcI-
rhla-Enr1ier Reports.
II IS likely that Governor Montague will
name. within the next ten days the two
members of the commission provided for
BY t!.e General Assembly.sto to prepare the
Virginia exhibit at the ST Louis Exposi-
tion. Commission Of Agriculture, G. W.
Koiner. y~iio IS a member Of the commits
zion BY virtue of the act creating it, is
formulating plans for the agricultural ex-
hibit. and during the past week he has
been n consultation with Mr.. Charles R.
Boyd, OF WytheTille. Va. in the matter.
ot preparing a, complete presentation of.
the mineral resources Of the State through
q specially designed geological map of
Virginia, on which Mr. Boyd has been
rprking for some time.
II is proposed to make this map an up-i
to-date. practical exhibit Of the vast re-
sources Of the entire State, not only with
reference tc. minerals. but the ,agricul-.
turaI products as well. The commission
or and Mr.. Boyd. have had several inter
Views on this matter to determine the
most suitable sort Of informatio that can
he presented in printed form, for distribu-
tton at the st.ELouis Exposition. Commits
btoner koirer said recently that since the
Rogers report, made in 1s4l, there has
been no geological report setting forth
the mineral resources Of the State lin &
complete manner The late Ma iors Jed.
Hotchkiss. the distinguished mining engi-
neer OF Staunten, assisted IN the comp pila-
ton OF the reports issued from time to
lime by Professor Rogers, but no COM
plete geological map was published along
with the compilation. A1r Boyd has de-
f-oted. himself exclusively for the past
twenty-five years sto. the study Of the min
e-sl resources Of Virginia, and has pub
lished sereral, maps OF. the Southwest and
several books on the geological forr1aa-
tons in the State, that have received
meEited recognition at the hands of scien-
fists. His work in this direction. was
largely USED by. the Norfolk and Western
railroad, to give information to Northern
investors. who have expended vast sums
OF money in the development OF the coal.
lands ii the Southwest Virginia. during
the past fifteen years.
Work In Mineral Sections -
Since Mr. Boyd left the University OF
Virginia in 1874, where he specialized in
geology and ra1ineraiogy in the department
that was SO firmly established by Profes-
eor Rogers as far back as 1887. he has CIV
en- his time to the application ofsprinci-
pies to practice, and his work in the rich
mineral sections OF the State, and the
vast fund Of information that he. has
hcquired from q critical study of data
gathered by himself and others who have
investigated certain lines of minerals il
Virginia. peculiarly fits him to speak au-.
1AoFltauVely upon the necessity Of Of
tering this information il, appropriate
form 10 The thousands who will examine
the Virginia exhibit at the ST. Louis
Exposition. and who will be seeking prac-
acal Information about the mineral inter-
Rsts Of Virginia for purposes OF invest
rel.t.
Mr.. Boyd is member Of the Frank
in Institute of Philadelphia. one of the
n!dest and most eminent scientific bodies
IN the United States. He has been recent
~ invited to. attend the meeting Of the
British association for the advancement
II Science, and in confederation of his
valuable services to Virginia he. has been
appointed IN :he past by, the Governors Of
Virginia 20 attend the most important
.rpoSido1s held in this country and
abroad including the. last Paris EXPOSE.
ton. Commissioner ko;ner and Mr.. Boyd
have discussed the situation with refer
eace TO. the Virginia exhibit at the st
Louis Exposition in an informal and unof
fetal manner during the, past few days,
ana they are both Of the opinion that the
distribution of printed matter at the.
exposition, explaining. concisely, and in
an attractive form, the mineral resources
Of the State, will be one of the desired
ends OF The commission entrusted with
ths duty placed upon Them by Inc Legis-
latuye
He Was with Jackson.
Mr.. Boyd has spent most of his life
siaoe he left the university among the
mineral fields OF the State. After serving
with distinction iii the Fourth Virginia
Regiment In Stonewall Jacisson's brigade.
Which he entered at the ags OF lS he
was assigned TO engineer duty on the
1ort!9cations around Richmond. when he
was appointed brevet captain of engi-
leers
The Rogers report on the geologtca,
formations In Virginia recalls some in
teresting "reminiscences of the distin-
Euishea author OF these reports. From
1885 10 lSl, Professor William Barton
Rogers, then in the Department of se-
olosp and alineralosy at the University
OF Virginia, was appointed by the Legis-
1ature TO render annual reports on Yir-
ginia geology, and appropriations were
annually made for this purpose. He had
associated with him in the field work
and the compilation OF data thus obtain
ed Professor ]. 3. Rogers Professor w.
2. Aiken. Dir. c. B. Hayden. N. l. slaue,
DR.. George ". Boyd, Professor c. Briggs.
Mr.. Samuel Lewis. and Mr. Thomas S.
g!dgway, and the. results of the labors of
these active assistants were compiled into
book form during 1854, shortly after Pro-
lessor Rogers's death in Boston.
Founder of Famous school.
Professor Rogers was one of four bro
Tiers who. gained enlinence in the sci
entihc and literary world. He was a stu
dent at William and Mary College. and
at The age Of z was elected professor of
natural phslosopry and chemistry at that
Institution in 1892. Shortly after. in 1s5s.
he was elected to the same chair. at the
University of Virginia. In 1855 he went
% Boston. where be established the most
distinguished school of technology in the
United States. that to-day stands a
o1ss