ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. I3 



THE SURVEY LIBRARY. 



A well equipped reference library is essential to the investiga- 

 tions of the Survey, and an effort has been and is being made to 

 bring together those publications which are necessary to the imme- 

 diate and future work of the department. The Survey library now 

 contains more than 1,500 volumes. These include the reports of 

 the several State Geological Surveys; the reports of the National 

 Geological Survey; the reports of the Canadian and a few other 

 foreign Geological Surveys ; and many miscellaneous volumes and 

 papers on geology and related subjects. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



MORE OFFICE SPACE NECESSARY. 



The State Survey is at present housed in two small rooms. 

 Of these one is used as store room, photo room and library, while 

 the other serves as office and work room. These small 

 rooms, including about 1,000 square feet of floor space are totally 

 inadequate to the requirements of effective work. Fully 10,000 

 square feet of floor space is necessary to meet the immediate require- 

 ments of the Survey. The library shelves are full, and it is now and 

 for some time has been quite impossible to care for the publications 

 that are being received. Many of these new publications represent 

 the results of investigations by the neighboring State Surveys or 

 by the National Survey, and are very necessary, for comparative 

 purposes to the Florida Survey. Other publications being received 

 from various sources are for reference purposes and are necessary 

 to the determination of fossils or mineral specimens, or, of geolog- 

 ical formations, or other matters in connection with the Survey 

 work. The cases used in exhibiting and storing mineral snecimens 

 and fossils have been placed tempnrarilv in one of the room? form- 

 erly occupied by the Supreme Court librar}-. 



The Surv^ev at present is practically without a work room. 

 There is no table or desk room available to store or to handle the 

 maps, charts, and drawings that are constantly being used in the 

 Survey work. It is impossible from lack of space to properly 

 open up and study the collection of mineral and fossil specimens 

 that have been obtained bv the Survev. The store room space is 

 too small to accomimodate even the current issues of the Survev's 



