1^2 WARMAN 



In Senate mis. doc. No. 82, 49th Congress, ist session, 

 Testimony before the joint commission to consider the present 

 organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey, Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, and the Ilydrographic Office of the 

 Navy Department, with a view to secure greater efficiency 

 and economy of administration of the public service in said 

 bureaus, authorized by the sundry civil act approved July 7, 

 1884, and continued by the sundry civil act approved March 

 3, 1885, pp. 1-49, 162-180, 1S4-209, 378-451, 637-700, 

 S96-912, 1 01 9-1 045, 1 070- 1 084, Washington, Government 

 Printing Office, 1SS6, 8°, map. 



Besides the testimony proper before the committee, there 

 appears on (preliminary) pp. 26* and 27* of the same 

 volume the " Letter," described under No. 176. 



1886. 



184. The Geological Survey. [Remarks, May 13, 1886, be- 



fore the joint commission (Senator Allison, chairman) 

 to consider the organization of the scientific bureaus of 

 the government ; being chiefly a discussion of the bill 

 (H. R. 8320) introduced by Mr. Herbert, April 26, 

 1886, and by him reported with an amendment May 5, 

 1886.] 



No title; heading, "the Geological Survey"; pp. 1-33, 

 8°. 



Sub-headings are : provisions of the bill ; the publications 

 of the Geological Survey are made with great economy ; cost 

 of field work and publication, respectively, in the geologic 

 surveys of certain States ; [a substitute bill for the one under 

 discussion.] 



185. [Statement traversing certain averments of House report 



No. 2214, forty-ninth Congress, first session, signed by 

 the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert and the Hon. Jno. T. 

 Morgan, presented to the House of Representatives 

 April 26, 1886, in conjunction with a bill (H. R. 8320) 

 •* restricting the work and publications of the Geo- 

 logical Survey, and for other purposes."] 



In Report No. 2740, House of Representatives, 49th Con- 

 gress, ist session, to accompany bills H. R. 9372 and H. R. 



