administrative report 
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Preparation of Reports :—Upon completion of the field work, a 
large amount of office and laboratory work is necessary in order to 
get a report upon a given subject in shape for the press. In the case of 
the present report on the clays, much detailed laboratory work was 
necessary in order to get the results of the physical and burning tests 
of the several samples. Chemical analyses are frequently made and 
maps and drawings are prepared to show the location of the deposits, 
and the arrangement or order of the manuscript must be considered, 
as well as the final proof reading while going through the press. The 
illustrations of the reports, too, are selected with care and aid in visual¬ 
izing the occurrence and preparation of the natural product for the 
market. 
Publications of the Survey :—The results of the investigations by the 
Survey are issued in the form of annual reports. These reports are issued 
as a whole volume and also the papers making up the volume are bound 
separately. By this method anyone interested only in some particular 
subject treated in the whole report can obtain it by getting only the 
separate paper. These reports are distributed free to all residents and 
to all boards of trade or corresponding bodies in the State, and to the 
libraries of the State and to certain exchange libraries of the United 
States and foreign countries. Requests for publications from residents 
of States other than Florida should be accompanied with postage. In 
addition to the annual reports the Survey has issued two bulletins and 
twelve press bulletins. A complete list of the reports so far issued by the 
Survey may be had by writing the State Geologist, Tallahassee. 
