TABLET HONORS 
Pioneering Work of U. S. 
Geologists Honored in the 
Star Building. 
The wording appearing on the 
bronze tablet unveiled yesterday 
in memory of the original United 
States Geological Survey party is 
as follows: 
TJ S Cj s 
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
OF THE TERRITORIES 
FERDINAND V. HAYDEN, 
GEOLOGIST IN CHARGE, 
WAS ESTABLISHED BY AN 
ACT OF CONGRESS 
APPROVED MARCH 3, 1867. 
By this act and subsequent ap¬ 
propriations rooms were secured 
in the upper floors of the old 
brick building on this site, subse¬ 
quently purchased by The Star 
Co. Scientists were employed, 
explorations, geologic, topographic 
and photographic work begun by 
many field parties. 
Later the survey offices were 
moved to the upper floors of 509 
Seventh street, where final com¬ 
pilation of all field work was 
made. 
The scenic beauty, the topo¬ 
graphic and economic potentiali¬ 
ties of parts of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains and the Yellowstone were 
surveyed, photographed and pub¬ 
lications issued, resulting in com¬ 
pletion of the Colorado Atlas. 
Many natural park's were discov¬ 
ered and their preservation rec¬ 
ommended to the Congress of the 
United States. 
This memorial was erected by 
the surviving members of the 
Hayden Survey—1930. 
Pioneering efforts of the United States 
Geological Survey under the leadership 
of the late Ferdinand V. Hayden, first 
United States geologist in charge, which 
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