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Page 329 - The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological 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.
Page 330 - Price 5 cents. 10. On the Cambrian Faunas of North America. Preliminary studies by Charles Doolittle Waloott. 1884. 8°. 74pp. 10 pi. Price 5 cents. 11. On the Quaternary and Recent Mollnsca of the Great Basin ; with Descriptions of New Forms, by R. Ellsworth Call; introduced by a sketch of the Quaternary Lakes of the Great Basin, by GK Gilbert. 1884. 8°. 66pp. 6 pi. Price 5 cent».
Page 329 - 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...
Page 330 - White. 1884. 8°. 36 pp. 9 pi. Price 5 cents. 5. A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, compiled by Henry Gannett. 1884. 8°.
Page 330 - Lakes of the Great Basin, by GK Gilbert. 1884. 8°. 66pp. 6'pl. Price 5 cents. 12. A Crystallographic Study of the Thinolite of Lake Lahontan, by Edward S. Dana. 1884. 8°.
Page 330 - Rocks, by Whitman Cross, with, a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by SF Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42pp. 2 pi. Price 10 cents. 2. Gold and Silver Conversion Tables, giving the coining value of troy ounces of fine metal, etc..
Page 329 - July 7, 1882, the following joint resolution, 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.
Page 339 - 24. List of Marine Mollusca, comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American Localities between Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque.
Page 330 - Fresh-water Miocene, and other Fossil Mollusca of Western North America, by Charles A. White. 1885. 8°.
Page 329 - Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1881-'82, by JW Powell. 1883. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps. IV. Fourth Annual...