JOHN WESLEY POWELL 167 



A portion is devoted to " ethnographic work," pp. 82-86. 



164. 45th Congress, 2d session. House of Representatives. 



Ex. doc. No. 80. Geological and geographical surveys. 

 Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting 

 a report of Professor Powell in regard to surveys, in 

 response to a resolution of the House of Represent- 

 atives. 



No title-page, heading as above, 19 pp., 8°, map. 



The report is dated April 27, 1878, and its sub-headings 

 are : areas of territory surveved : the years in which the 

 districts or areas were surveved; the cost incurred by direct 

 appropriations made by Congress ; aid received from the 

 Ordnance, Commissary, and Qiuirtermaster's departments, 

 outside of direct appropriations ; the funds from which trans- 

 portation and office rents have been paid ; list of publications 

 made and in progress as the result of such surveys ; dupli- 

 cation of other public geological and geographical surveys 

 made by authority of Congress. 



165. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Moun- 



tain Region, under the direction of Professor J. W. 

 Powell. Account of work performed during the year 

 1877. 



In American Journal of Science and Arts for May and June, 

 1878, 3d series, vol. 15, pp. 342-35^' 449-455^ ^ew Haven, 

 1878, 8°. 



166. Report on the methods of surveying the public domain, to 



the Secretary of the Interior, at the request of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. By J. W. Powell, 

 1878. 



Washington : Government Printing Office. 1878. 



Cover, title, and pp. 3-16, 8°. 



The report is dated November i, 187S, and treats of: The 

 unification of the work of surveying and mapping the terri- 

 tories ; cost of a geographical and geological survey ; zool- 

 ogy and botany ; ethnology. 



1879. 



167. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Moun- 



tain Region, by Prof. J. W. Powell. 



