24 SECOND EEPOET OF U. S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES. 
Bulletin No. 1, an octavo pamphlet of 13 pages, issued December 31, 
1890, was published -through the courtesy and at the cost of the Smith- 
sonian Institution; edition, 7,000. 
Bulletin No. 2, an octavo pamphlet of 16 pages, issued May 25, 1891, 
was published through the courtesy of the Coast and Geodetic Survey: 
edition, 7,500. 
Bulletin No. 3, an octavo pamphlet of 14 pages, issued August 1, 
1891, was published through the courtesy of the Light-House Board; 
edition, 8,000. 
The first report of the Board was published early in 1892 under a 
concurrent resolution passed January 25, 1892 (see Congressional 
Record, January 26, 1892, p. 562), as Executive Document No. 16, 
House of Representatives, Fifty-second Congress, first session. It is 
an octavo bound pamphlet of 56 pages. Edition, u the usual number" 
plus 10,000 extra copies, 1,000 for the use of the Senate, 2,000 for the 
use of the House of Representatives, and 7,000 for distribution by the 
Board "among the Government Departments, public libraries, and 
other suitable depositories." 
This first report contains all the decisions printed in Bulletins 1, 2, 
and 3, together with some additional ones. 
For some time after the publication of the first report the decisions 
of the Board from month to month were reproduced by the mimeo- 
graph, to the number of about 100, and sent to the Departments 
interested. Later the Treasury Department printed these as single 
leaflets, and later as thin pamphlets, in editions of 1,000. There are 
six such pamphlets containing the decisions: 
January, 1892, to September, 1895, 16 pages. 
October, 1895, to March, 1896, 5 pages. 
October, 1895, to April, 1896, 6 pages. 
October, 1895, to November, 1896, 6 pages. 
January 1, 1892, to December 31, 1896, 22 pages. 
January 1, 1892, to January 1, 1898, 40 pages. 
All these decisions, together with others hitherto unpublished, are 
contained in the present report. 
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. To facilitate its work in the future it has 
adopted the resolutions contained in the letter of transiuittal on pam- ."> 
of this report. 
