KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. , 93 



resources and classificatiou of the lands, and reports upon general and 

 economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations 

 of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said survey 

 shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Di- 

 rector, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of 

 each shall be ])ublished for scientific exchanges and for sale at the iirice 

 of publication ; and all literary and cartographic materials received in 

 exchange shall be the property of the United States, and form a part of 

 the library of the organization : And the money resulting from the sale 

 of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United 

 States." 



On July 7, 1882, the following joint resolution, referring to all Gov- 

 ernment publications, was j)assed by Congress : 



" That whenever any document or report shall bo ordered printed by 

 Congress, there shall be printed, in addition to the number in each case 

 stated, the 'usual number' [1,900] of copies for binding and distribu- 

 tion among those entitled to receive them." 



Under these general laws it will be seen that none of the Survey pub- 

 lications are furnished to it for gratuitous distribution. The 3,000 copies 

 of the annual report are distributed through the document rooms of 

 Congress. The 1,900 copies of each of the publications are distributed 

 to the ofiicers of the legislative and executive departments, and to stated 

 depositories throughout the United States. 



Except, therefore, in those cases where an extra number of any jiub- 

 lication is sui)plied to this oflice by special resolution of Congress, as 

 has been done in the case of the second, third, fourth, and fifth annual 

 reports, or where a number has been ordered for its use by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, as iu the case of Mineral Eesources, and Dictionary 

 of Altitudes, the Survey has no copies of any of its publications for gra- 

 tuitous distribution. The gratuitous edition of the Mineral Eesources 

 is entirely exhausted. 



ANNUAL REPORTS. 



Of the AiiDiial Reports there have beeu already published : 



I. First Aunual Report to the Hon. Carl Schurz, by Clarence King. 1880. 8°. 79 

 pp. 1 map. — A preliminary report describing plan of organization and publications. 



II. Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey for 1880-'81, bj'- 

 J. W. Powell. 1882. 8°. Iv, 558 pp. 61 pi. 1 map. 



III. Third Aunual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1881-'82, by J. 

 W. Powell. 1883. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps, 



IV. Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1882-'83, by J. 

 W. Powell. 1884. 8". xii, 473 pp. 85 pi. and maps. 



The edition of the Fourth Annual for the use of the Survey has not yet been deliv- 

 ered. The Fifth Annual is in i^ress. 



MONOGRAPHS. 



Of the Monographs, Nos. II, III, IV, V, YI, and VII are now j)ublished, viz : 



II. Tertiary History of the Grand Canou District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dut- 



tou, captain, U. S, A. 1882. 4°. 264 pp. 42 pi. and atlas of 26 double sheets folio. 



Price 110.12, 



