12 BULLETIX 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Survey, and as volume 6, Contribution from United States National 

 Herbarium, by the United States Department of Agriculture. The 

 proposed companion volume to this flora which was to have been de- 

 voted to the Economic Relations of the Alabama Flora, because 

 of the untimely death of Doctor Mohr, was never completed. 



The activities of the Alabama geological survey in the examination 

 of Avater powers, underground water resources, cement materials, 

 etc., extending over many years, did not find expression in the pub- 

 lished reports until after the year 1900. 



Expenses. — The appropriations for the survey expenses under 

 Doctor Smith's administration have been as follows : 



1873-1883. $500 a year for 10 years $5,000 



1873, for eqnipment 3,000 



1883-1891, .f 5.000 a year for 8 years 40,000 



1891-1!)00, $7,500 a year for 9 years 67,500 



$115, 500 



Not including cost of publication and incidental expenses, which, 

 up to 1900, amounted to about $28,000. 



Present condition of the sm-vey. — The annual appropriation of 

 $7,500 for the general expenses of the survey continues. The print- 

 ing and illustrations of the geological re}:»orts are paid for out of the 

 general fund of the State on the order of the governor and upon the 

 recommendation of a committee consisting of the governor, the secre- 

 tary of state, and State geologist. This coinmittee decides as to the 

 number of copies, the style of printing and binding, and the illustra- 

 tions of the geological reports as they are announced to be ready for 

 publication by the State geologist. By the Code of 1907 the com- 

 pensation of the State geologist also is paid out of the general fund 

 of the State, and not out of tlie survey appropriation as heretofore. 



ADDENDA, 1910. 



Very recently a handsome building (Smith Hall) has been erected 

 at the university for purposes of the geological museum, offices of the 

 geological survey, and the departments of geolog^^ and biolog}'^ of the 

 university. The main exhibition hall, about 100 feet by 60 feet, with 

 gallery 13 feet wide and with skylight about 30 feet by 70 feet, pro- 

 vides for the exhibition and storage of the geological and natural his- 

 tory collections of the survey. 



The existing laws relating to the geological survey are given in 

 Bulletin No. 465, United States Geological Surve}'. 



