^DVERTISEIVIEl^T. 



[Mouogi-iiiih XXXVII.] 



Tlie statute approved March 3, 1879, establishing the United States Geological Survey, contaius 

 the foUowiug proTisious : 



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

 logical and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lauds, 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 Secretary of the Interior. All siieoial memoirs and 

 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 scieutitic exchanges 

 and for sale at the price 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." 



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

 plied to the Survey "by special resolution of Congress or has been ordered by the Secretary of the 

 Interior, this olfice has no copies for gratuitous distribution. 



ANNUAL REPORTS. 



I. First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, by 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, by J. W. Powell. 

 . 8°. Iv, 588 pp. 62 pi. 1 map. 



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

 883. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps. 



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

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



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

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



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

 1. 8°. xxix, 570 pp. 65 pi. and maps. 



VII. Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1885-'86, by J. W. Powell. 

 1. 8°. XX, 656 pp. 71 pi. and maps. 



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

 '. 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. 

 I. 8^. xiii, 717 jip. 88 pi. and maps. 



X. Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1888-'89, by J. AV. Powell. 

 '. 8°. 2 pt. XV, 774 pp., 98 pi. and maps; viii, 123 jip. 



XI. Eleventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1889-'90, by J. AV. Powell. 

 891. 8'^. 2 pt. XV, 757 pp., 66 pi. and maps; ix, 351 pp., 30 pi. and maps. 



XII. Twelfth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1890-'91, by J. W. Powell. 

 ,891. 8°. 2 pt., xiii, 675 pp., 53 pi. and maps ; x^aii, 576 pp., 146 pi. and maps. 



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

 Powell. 1893. 8°. 3 pt. vii, 240 pp., 2 maps; x, 372 pp., 105 pi. and maps; xi, 486 pp., 77"pl. and 

 maps. 



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

 Powell. 1893. 8c. 2 pt. 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, 755 pp., 48 pi. and maps. 



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

 AValcott, Director. 1895. (Part I, 1896.) H°. 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. 



XA'II. Seventeenth Annual Report 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 Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1898-'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. 



