22 BEPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GEOGRAPHIC BOARD. 
features of the country, such as Cordilleras, Rocky Mountains, 
Sierra Nevada, Blue Ridge, etc. These involved much study and 
correspondence. 
After months of discussion and study, a set of conventional signs 
and abbreviations for use on maps was agreed upon, thus making 
Government usage absolutely uniform in this regard. 
CONCLUSION. 
The Board again respectfully calls attention to the fact that it is 
without means for carrying on its work, save by the courtesy of the 
bureaus, offices, and institutions represented in its membership. It is 
without direct means for printing or distributing its decisions. It is 
without means for meeting the calls that are made upon it for publica- 
tions, for information, and for decisions. Its progress has, therefore, 
been slow, and might, indeed, have ceased altogether had not the calls 
made upon it — unceasingly made — attested a real need for some such 
agency or institution. 
