]'}l ifoi'xil ( 'niii nil 111 . 53 
Again Mr. Lyman, an intelligent member of the committee, 
from Massacliiisetts. after the progress of the investigation hart 
brought out prominently the respective duties and plans of the 
two surveys, remarks (p. 72): 
}so\v, if we tnrn to tlie Geological Survey, ihut branch of the (Gov- 
ernment should be doing one thing and is doing two things. It should, 
after the manner of the English geological survey, which was started 
in 1832 under De la Beclie, be simply engaged with geology, paleon- 
tology, mineralogy and metals, woods and forests if you please, and 
the like. But what it is doing outside of tliis is to make a map of this 
covmtry, and on a basis whicli is not entirely satisfactory. That is 
to say, that map is not entirely based on accurate triangulations of 
the C-oast Survey. Therefore, how are we coming out if we go on iii' 
the present way? In the first place, we shall have the work, of the- 
Coast Survey, as executed by the naval othcers and the cm% engi^ 
neers, of the utmost accuracj', and, secondly, we shall have- trian- 
gulations across the continent executed by that same reliable- 
survey, to endure for all time. We shall have the admirable work, 
of the United States engineers on the rivers and lakes; then we 
shall have tlie shiftless and slovenly work of the Land Othce in 
plotting and ])arceling lands, and finally we shall have the Geo- 
logical Survey as it is now going on, which is only "sutiiciently 
correct"; the liead of tliat survey used that term before this com- 
mittee, lie said it would be sufficiently correct, which means 
not mathematically correct. Xow it does not seem to me that for 
a nation wliicli in a few years is to l)e tlie richest, tlie most 
powerful, and in certain respects the most civilized nation of the 
world ; it does not seem to me that it is i)roper for that nation to 
go on in sucli a way. These labors should l)e co-ordinated and 
should be lifted to tlu' highest j)lane possible. 
That, I understand, is the object of the general ]ilan proposed by 
the National .\cadeniy. 
Prof. Ililgard statcMl (p. r)4) that ai)pi-opriati(>ii bills i)asscd by 
Congress havi- orderc'd him to makt' a map of the United 
States — "comjiiling data for a general nnij) of the United States" 
— and he exhibited one of the sheets thus made. W'heni 
asked. --What relation is there betwt'cn your map and den. 
Powells geological map. ' he re[)lied : --They are much too 
nearly alike to carry out lioth." 
•'You think that if this was completed his woiihi not !>«'• 
needed?' 
"No, I Ihiiik th:it if his was conipletecj mine would not lu- 
needed. " 
Ts that clashine-? Is t hat infrin<;ement? Is thai interferi'uce?' 
