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as far as the Grand Teton, near the Yellowstone National Park, 
including Frémont’s peak of the Wind River range of the Rocky 
mountains. The area embraces about twenty-eight thousand 
square miles, and within it, twenty-six primary stations were oc- 
cupied and their positions accurately computed. 
Besides these occupied stations a large number of mountain 
peaks were located, which in the future will be occupied as points 
for the extension of the topographical work of the survey. 
5 base line was carefully measured near Rawlins’ springs, on 
the line of the Union Pacific railroad, and from this initial base 
the work was extended north and west to the valley of Bear 
river in Idaho territory. Here a check base was measured and 
the sytem expanded to the neighboring mountain peaks to con- 
nect with the triangulation as brought forward from the first men- 
tioned base. 
Along the line of the Union Pacific railroad the work was con- 
nected at six points with the triangulation system of Clarence 
these ranges were not inthe scope of the season’s work they are 
not given on the chart. 
Tue American GEOGRAPHICAL Society.—In referring, how- 
ever briefly, to the geographical work of our Transatlantic 
brethren, it must be considered a fitting opportunity to offer our 
congratulations to the American Geographical Society, which, 
incorporated in 1852, has now fully attained its majority ; and the 
occasion is the more appropriate, as the society has recently ac- 
quired a new and commodious home, for which it is indebted to 
the public spirit and liberality so characteristic of American citi- 
zens, under the able direction of its distinguished President, Chief 
Justice Daly, whose eloquence and heartfelt regard for our favorite 
science cannot fail to have impressed his hearers during his late 
visit to this country. The American Geographical Society now 
numbers 1750 fellows, and possesses a geographical library of 
some 10,000 volumes and a large collection of maps, &c. Geo- 
hical operations on a large scale have been engrossed by the 
= state in America; but the numerous and valuable papers contain- 
