34 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Sec. 2. The sum oi' $2,000 per moutl), payable moutlily, for the period of two 

 years, is hereby npitropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated to pay the expenses of said survey and publication. 



Skc. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Approved March 25, 1870, 



Under the conditions of this act steps were taken tovrard the com- 

 pletion of the map of central California, which was intended to ent- 

 brace the region from Owens Lake on the southern limit to Lassens 

 Peak on the north, thus including about one-third of the area of 

 the State. The sheet was not completed owing to the failure of ap- 

 propriations. 



In liis report covering the operations for the years 1870--7.1 Whit- 

 ney announced that of the 11 or 12 volumes contemplated in the 

 regular series of volumes of the report, four had already been pub- 

 lished, four more were under wa}', two only awaited the favorable 

 action of the legislature to be at once put in hand, while two that had 

 been begun had been suspended for want of means. 



March 13, 1872, the following act was passed : 



An act to continue the geological survey of the State of California. 



The ijcople of the State of California, represented in senate and assemhlp, dn 

 enact as folloivs: 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the State geologist to proceed and with all 

 reasonable diligence complete the geological survey of this State and the pub 

 Hcation of the results thereof. 



Sec. 2. The sum of $2,000 per month, payable monthly for the period of two 

 years from and after the 25th day of March, A. D. 1S72, is hereby appropriated, 

 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the ex 

 penses of said survey and publication, and the controller is hereby directed to 

 draw his warrants upon the treasurer and in favor of the State geologiKt 

 therefor. 



Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



Approved March 13, 1872. 



Whitney, apparently becoming fully convinced by this time that 

 no further moneys than those appropriated by the act of March 13 

 would be forthcoming, announced in his reports of the operations 

 of the survey for 1872-73 that he had determined to close his office 

 in connection with the State as soon as the maps and volumes had 

 been completed, and that he would by no means retain the office of 

 State geologist beyond the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1875. He 

 estimated that an amount of money not less than $100,000 would be 

 required to complete the work already begun and in process of pub- 

 lication. This sum included the cost of completion of the map of 

 central California and those in the vicinity of the Bay of San Fran- 

 cisco, and the most important mining districts, as well as the cost 

 of publication of seven additional volumes on geology, ornithology, 



