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CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES. 739 
On March 15th the Navy Department paid $100,000 for the whaling steamer 
Mary and Helen, to be sent in search of the Jeanette. 
GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY.—For the expenses of the Geological Survey, and the 
classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, min- 
eral resources, and products of the national domain, to be expended under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Interior, including pay of civilian employees, 
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 
The unexpected balance for the completion of the office work of the Geolog- 
ical and Geographical Survey of the Territories for the fiscal year, eighteen 
hundred and eighty-one, was also re-appropriated and made available for the 
same purposes. 
MississIppI R1vER CoMMISsioN.—For salaries and traveling expenses of Com- 
mission, office expenses, and reduction of work; for continuation of surveys and 
gaugings of Mississippi River and its tributaries; for permanent gauge-stations 
and borings ; for publication of maps and results, one hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars. : 
NorTH AMERICAN ETHNoLoGy.—For the purpose of continuing ethnological 
researches among the North American Indians, under the direction of the Secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian Institution, twenty-five thousand dollars; five thousand 
dollars of which shall be expended in continuing archeological investigations 
relating to Mound-builders and prehistoric mounds. 
SMITHSONIAN INsTITUTION.—For the expense of exchanging literary and sci. 
entific productions with all nations by the Smithsonian Institution, three thousand 
dollars. 
Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution: For preservation and 
care of the collections of the surveying and exploring expeditions of the govern- 
ment, fifty-five thousand dollars. 
Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory building: For 
expense of watching, care and storage of duplicate government collections, and 
of property of the United States Fish Commission, Two thousand five hundred 
dollars. 
UNDER THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES.—Propagation of food- 
fishes: For the introduction of shad and fresh-water herring into the waters of the 
Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf and Great Lake States, and of salmon, white-fish, 
carp, gourami, and other useful food-fishes into the waters of the United States 
generally, to which they are best adapted ; also for the propagation of cod, her. 
ring, mackerel, halibut, Spanish mackerel, and other sea fishes, and for 
‘continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the United 
States, ninety-five thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. 
Coast AND GEODETIC SuRVEY.—Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 
eastern division: For every purpose and object necessary for, and incident to, 
the continuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United 
States, the Mississippi and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or 
