is was, 
Covered the whole northern part 
ie tes Geol 
the Interior, 1884-85. By J. W. Powell, Director. 
1887] Recent Literature. 1099 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Sixth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey."— 
The sixth annual report of the survey under Major J. W. Powell 
is issued two years after the period to which it refers, and hence 
the accounts of progress which the volume contains are some- 
what antiquated by the time they reach the public. This, how- 
ever, is presumably the fault of the government printing-office, 
and not of the survey. Old as the news thus is, a few data 
not prove uninteresting, The annual report for the fiscal year 
‘ending June 30, 1885, shows that the expense of the survey 
aggregated within a few hundred dollars of the appropriation 
of half a million. During the year, the topographical survey 
was completed and maps prepared for the engraver of fifty-seven 
thousand square miles of territory, at an average expense of 
three dollars per square mile. The usual administrative reports 
by the heads of the divisions appear in their proper sequence, 
and from them we learn that in the future relief-cuts are to be 
five in number. Mr. L F. 
? Group,” and de- 
fossil plants. Mr. 
’s method of 
as, as it were, an island in the grea 
Chamberlain and Salisbury have been ff F 
_ Area, and their accounts are given in this repo 2 pa 
ena 
Parently, painstaking researches upon all the PEEN Secretary of 
* Sixth Annual Report of the United Sta Ocoee, 1885 [1887]. 
