Geology and Mineralogy.

Examples will be wanted of rocks and minerals of any distinctly marked type to be found on the Estate. Where convenient, pieces from four to eight inches square may be taken; larger if required to fairly exhibit character; smaller where so large a size cannot conveniently be secured. A written memorandum should accompany each specimen, showing at what point, by whom, and under what circumstances it has been obtained, this memorandum being sufficiently definite to be available in the compilation of a Geological Map of the Estate, on which map, among other things, the position, dip and trend of each ledge would be shown.

Archaeology.

All Indian implements and relics are to be collected, and it should be known to all employed in any capacity that any that may be seen are wanted. As there is some popular interest in such things, care should be taken to prevent their being taken off the Estate without permission. If any Indian mounds, burying grounds or important deposits of relics should be found, they should be left undisturbed until an expert can be summoned to direct the excavation.

Botany.

A complete collection of such flowering plants (including grasses and sedges) native and introduced, as were on the grounds before recent operations upon it began, is desirable to be secured as soon as practicable. It is not likely that many new sorts have as yet been established, but the seeds of some are sure to have been introduced with the packing of foreign trees and other things brought in, and it is desirable that, before any plants growing from them have become common, records should be made of their first observed appearance; the probable method of their introduction, and afterwards of the rapidity of their distribution, etc. Some newly introduced plants spread very rapidly and sometimes become weeds difficult and expensive to keep in subjection. Very soon, if no record is made of their first appearance, they pass for native plants.

The intended planting operations and the new ways of treating the land to be adopted will produce a rapid change in the vegetation, and in years to come, means of comparing the existing flora with that which shall then be found, will be of no little value.

Dendrology.

In addition to Herbarium collections, there will be a special collection illustrative of the woody growth of the region. This will include sections of trunks showing bark, grain of wood, etc; illustrations of the value of the wood in various forms, rude and finished; seeds, nuts and malformations of growth produced by insects or disease.

Entomology.

A collection is to be made of the insects of the Estate. Of insects, as of plants, there are likely to be many new introductions, and the early identification of a kind dangerous to any form of vegetation may be a matter of importance.

Zoology.

Collections are to be made of the land animals, birds, reptiles and fishes. As with plants and insects, there will be changes among these, and an early record of such as are now to be found, and of their haunts and habits, is desirable.