Circular concerning publications.

  • Geological Survey (U.S.)
Date:
[1886?]
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Credit: Circular concerning publications. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | 9—320.] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY I, 1386. CIRCULAR CONCERNING PUBLICATIONS. The publications of the United States Geological Survey are issued in accordance with the statute, approved March 3, 1879, which declares that— “The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geolog- ical and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange shall be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization: And the money result- ing from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.” On July 7, 1882, the following joint x'esolution, referring to all Government publications, was passed by Congress: “That whenever any document or report shall be ordered printed by Congress, there shall be printed, in addition to the number in each case stated, the ‘usual number’ (1,900) of copies for binding and distribution among those entitled to receive them.” Except in those cases in which an extra number of any publication has been supplied to the Survey by special resolution of Congress or has been ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, this Office has no copies for gratuitous distribution. ANNUAL REPORTS. Of the Annual Reports there have been already published: I. First Annual Report to the Hon. Carl Schurz, by Clarence King. 1880. 8°. 79 pp. 1 map.—A preliminary report describing plan of organization and publications. II. Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey for 1880-81, by J. W. Powell. 1882. 8°. lv, 588 pp. G1 pi. 1 map. III. Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1881-82, by J. W. Powell. 1883. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps. IY. Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1882-83, by J. W. Powell. 1884. 8°. xii, 473 pp. 85 pi. and maps. The Fifth and Sixth Annual Reports are in press. MONOGRAPHS. Of the Monographs, Nos. II, III, IY, Y, VI, VII, and VIII arc now published, viz: II. Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S. A. 1882. 4°. xiv, 264 pp. 42 pi. and atlas of 24 sheets folio. Price $10.12.