[MouogTaph XL.] 



The statute approved March 3, 1879, establishing the United States Geological Survey, contains 

 the following provisions: 



"The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, "eo- 

 logical and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports u'pon 

 general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geoloo-ical 

 Survey shall accompaiiy the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs^aud 

 reports of said Survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but 

 otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges 

 and for sale at the price of publication ; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchauo-e 

 shall be the property of the United States aud form a part of the library of the organization : And tlie 

 money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United 

 States." 



Except in those oases in which an extra number of any special memoir or report has been sup- 

 plied to the Survey hy special resolution of Congress or has heen ordered by the Secretarv of the 

 Interior, this office has no copies for gratuitous distribution. 



ANNUAL REPORTS. 



I. First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, bv Clarence King. 1880. 8-. 79 

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



II. Second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1880-'81, hv J W Powell 



882. 8^:. !v, 588 ]ip. 62 pi. 1 map. o . . , j ■ 



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



883. b"^. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps. 



IV. Fourth Annual Report of tlie United States Geological Snrvev, lS82-'83. by J. W PoweU 



884. 8°. xxxii, 473 pp. 85 pi. and maps. 



V. Fifth Annual Report of the Lnired States Geological Survey, 1883-'84, by J. W. Powell. 



885. 8°. xxxvi, 469 pp. 58 pi. and maps. 



VI. Sixth Auuual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1884-'85, by J. W. Powell. 

 885. 8°. xxix, 570 pp. 65 pi. and maps. 



^"■11. Seventh Annual R(']iort of the United States Geological Survey, 1885-'86, by J. W Powell 



888. S'^. XX, 6.56 pp. 71 pi. and liiaps. 



VIII. Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1886-87, hy J. W. Powell. 



889. 8°. 2 pt. xix, 474, xii pp., 53 pi. and maps; 1 prel. leaf, 475-1063 pp., 54-76 pi. and maps. 



IX. Ninth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1887-'88, by J. W Powell 



889. 8^. xii!,717pp. 88 pi. aud maps. 



X. Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survev, 1888-89, by ,J. W Powell 



890. 8°. 2pt. XV, 774 II].., as pi. and maps; vjii. 123 pp. 



XI. Eleventh Annual Ki-)>ort of the United States Geological Survey, 1889-'90, by J. W. Powell. 



891. 8^. 2 pt. XV, 757 pp., 66 pi. and maps: i\. :".:.l p],.. no pi. :uid maps. 



XII. Twelfth Aimual Report of the Uiiitiil Si:it.^ ( .mloiii.nl Survey, 1890-91, by J. W. Powell. 

 891. 8". 2 pt., xiii, 675 pp., 53 pi. and m.-ips; x\ iii. :i7i; pp.. 146 jil. and njaps. 



XIII. Thirteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1891-'92. by J. W. 

 Powell. 1893. 8"^. 3 pt. vii, 240 pp., 2 maps; x, 372 pp., 105 pi. and maps; x'i, 486 pp., 77 'pi. and 

 maps. 



XIV. Fourteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survev, 1892-'93 by .1 W 

 Powell. 1893. 8°. 2pt. vi, 321 pp., 1 pi. ; xx, 597 pp., 74 pi. and maps. 



XV. Fifteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1893- '94, by J. W. Powell. 

 1895. 8°. xiv, 7.55 pp., 48 pi. aud maps. 



XVI. Sixteenth Annual Reiinrt of the United States Geological Survey, 1894-'95, Charles D 

 Walcott, Director. 189.5. (Part I, 1896.) 8-^. 4 pt. xxii, 910 pp., 117 pi. and maps; xix, 598 pp.. 43 

 pi. and maps; xv, 646 pp., 23 pi. ; xix, 735 pp., 6 pi. 



XVH. Seventeenth Annual Repoit of the United States Geological Survey, 1895-'96, Charles 

 D. Walcott. Director. 1896. 8'=. 3 pt. in 4 vol. xxii, 1076 pp., 67 pi. and maps; xxv, 864 pp., 113 pi. 

 and maps; xxiii, 542 pp., 8 pi. and maps; iii, 543-1058 pp., 9-13 pi. 



XVIII. Eighteenth Annu.al Report of the United States Geological Survev, 1896-97, Charles D. 

 Walcott, Director. 1897. (Parts II and III, 1898. ) 8°. 5 pt. in 6 vol. 1-440 pp., 4 pi. and maps ; i-v 



