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has boeu so fortunate as to secure the co-operation of a strong- array of 

 contri butors among the engineers, metallurgists, and authorities on trade 

 statistics, and has thus been enabled to conduct operations on a much 

 more comprehensive plan than Mould be possible with a force limited 

 to regular employes. 



Forestry of West Virginia. — Mr. George W. Shutt, during the field 

 season of 1S83, examined the State of West Virginia, especially the 

 southern aud eastern portions, with especial reference to the distri- 

 bution of timber, its economic value, aud the facilities of transportation 

 to market via the streams of the State. He traveled more than a thou- 

 sand miles by wagon, and two hundred on horseback, and expresses the 

 opinion that nearly one-half of the State is covered with a virgin forest, 

 the value of which, if rendered marketable, would amount to billions 

 of dollars. 



Publications. 



During the year the following publications were issued, viz : 



Bulletin No. 1. On Hypersthene-Andesite aud on Tricliuic Pyroxene 

 in Augitic Rocks, by YY hitman Cross ; with a geological sketch of 

 Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. 1883. Svo. 40 pp. 



Bulletin No. 2. Gold and Silver. Conversion tables, giving the coining 

 value of Troy ounces of fine metal, &c, by Albert Williams, jr. 1S83. 

 Svo. S pp. 



Mineral Resources of the United States, by Albert Williams, jr. 1883. 

 Svo. S13 pp. 



The reprint of the Second Annual Report for the use of the survey, 

 was also issued during the year; and 50 copies of the Third Annual 

 Report were issued without the complete set of illustrations. Dr. C. A. 

 White's paper on "The Non-Marine Fossil Mollusca of North America," 

 from the Third Annual Report, was also issued as a separate publication 

 early in the year. 



Although the monographs of Captain Dutton and Mr. George F. 

 Becker ("The Tertiary History of the Grand Canon" and the "Geology 

 of the Comstock lode and Washoe district," both accompanied by at- 

 lases) bear the imprint of 1882, they were not furnished to the survey 

 for distribution until 1883. 



The papers prepared for publication are numerous, and a number are 

 in type and will soon be issued; among them are the Third and Fourth 

 Annual Reports, two bulletins, and several monographs. 



Collections. 



About 200 boxes of fossils, rocks, and minerals were sent on to the 

 main office of the Survey during the season by the various field parties. 



UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



As exercising the double function of Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and of United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, I 

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