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tebrate fossils than those employed and paid by Professor Cope. 
The result was the accumulation of a large amount of material, 
which includes about one thousand species of vertebrata from all 
the vertebrate-bearing horizons in the Western half of North 
America, excepting one, and a large amount of material from 
most of the Eastern bone-bearing beds. 
In 1880 the survey under Hayden was abolished on pretence 
of a consolidation, which was never carried into effect, and a new 
survey was organized under the direction of Major J. W. Powell. 
The unfinished work of the Hayden survey was placed in the 
hands of Major Powell by the following order of the Secretary 
of the Interior, Teller: : 
« WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 1882. 
“ Maj. J. W. PowE 
x pAn g S. Geological Survey, City 
“ Sır, —The letter of Dr. H. V. Hayden, dated June 27th, bearing your endorse- - 
ment of July 2oth, relating to the unpublished reports of the survey formerly under 
his charge, is herewith returned 
« You will please take charge of the publications referred toin the same in accord- 
ance with the suggestions made by Professor Hayden. 
“ It is the desire of this office that these volumes shall be completed and published 
as early as practicable. 
“ Very respectfully, 
“H. M. TELLER, Secretary.” 
In spite of the above order, no part of Volumes III. and IV. 
of the Hayden series which was not previously in the printer’s 
hands, has been sent to the Government printing-office, nor even 
been prepared for it since they came under the control of Major 
Powell. The verbal promise made to Dr. Hayden and Professor 
Cope by Major Powell, that part of the unfinished work repre- 
sented by these volumes would be undertaken and completed as 
part of the work of the new survey, was not fulfilled; and inquiry 
finally elicited the statement from the director that this unfin- — 
ished work would not be published by him. 
Under these circumstances, Professor Cope, with the advice and 
consent of Dr. Hayden, applied to Congress for a small appro- 
priation to pay the expenses of the preparation of the reports. 
The amount required per annum was three thousand eight hun- 
dred dollars, of which one thousand dollars was for an artist, 
seven hundred and twenty dollars for a preparateur of materials, 
and two thousand and eighty dollars for the preparation of the 
text and completing the reports. A lump amount was at first 
