490 iiUJLLETi:^^ lOi), UxN'lTED STATES NATlOisAL MUSEUM. 



VV. ii. Melville, of the United States Geological Survey, was tlieu 

 appointed chemist, Avith Mr. L. E. Dickson as assistant. F. W. 

 Cragin was appointed to study the large collection of Cretaceous 

 fossils, and G. D. Harris to study the Tertiary invertebrates. Pro- 

 fessor Plyatt continued his work on the Carboniferous cephalapods 

 and E. D. Cope on the vertebrates. The niuseuni collection was 

 greatly enlarged and improved during the year. 



The fourth annual report, 1892, comprising the published results 

 of this work, v.as submitted for publication as usual, but the print- 

 ing board decided that only 1,100 copies could be printed and that 

 none coidd be bound. Permission was obtained, however, to print 

 the report in parts, of which 11 were issued, as follows: 



Part 1. Report of State Geologist. 



Part 2. Report on Grimes, Brazos, and Robertsou Counties, W. Kennedy. 



Part 3. Preliminary Report on the Artesian Wells of tlie Gulf Coastal Slope. 

 •T. A. Singley; Preliminary Report on the Organic Remains Obtained from the 

 Deep Well at Galveston, G. D. Harris. 



Part 4. Report on the Rocks of Trnns-Pecos. Texas. \. Osann : Trans-Pecos. 

 Texas, W. H. von Streeruwitz. 



Part 5. Notes on the Geology of Northwest Texas, \Y. F. Cumnuns. 



Part 6. Report on the Cretaceous Area North of the Colorado River, J. A. 

 Taff, S. Leverett, assistant. 



Part 7. Report on the Colorado Coal Field of Texas, N. F. Drake; Report on 

 Soils, Water Supply, and Irrigation of the Colorado Coal Field, R. A. Thompson. 



Part 8. A Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Paleontology of the T.lano 

 Estacado, E. D. Cope. 



Part 9. Contribution lo the Invertebrate Paleontology of ilie Texa.s Cre- 

 taceous, F. W. Cragin. 



Part 10. Contributions to the Natural History of Texas, J. A. Singley. 



Part 11. Carbonifei'ous Ceplialopods, second paper, Alpheus Hyatt. 



There was also publislied during the year Bulletin N"o. 1, con- 

 taining : 



Artesian Water on the Llano Estacado, by Dr. George G. Shumard. 

 Report and Analy.ses of Texas Sumach (Rhus copaUina), by George H. 

 Kalteyer. 



With the issuance of tlie fourth annual report, the printed record 

 of the survey ceases. Its history after that time is supplied by Mr. 

 Dumble from copies of manuscript in his possession and others in 

 the State archives. 



Woik of the fifth year {1893). — The tight against the survey 

 which began at the former legislature was taken up again before the 

 twenty-third and its opponents succeeded in having the amount of 

 the appropriation reduced from $35,000 to $20,000 a year. The total 

 of the general appropriation bill, however, so far exceeded the 

 probable receipts that in order to prevent a deficiency serious to the 



