ADVERTISKMENT. 
[Bulletin 162.] 
he statute approved March 3, 1879, establishing the United States Geological Survey, contains the 
owing provisions : 
The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological 
[economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general 
economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey 
11 accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports 
laid Survey shall he issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but other - 
ein ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges 
for sale at the price of publication ; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange 
11 be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization ; and the 
ley resultiLg from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United 
tes.'' 
xcept in those cases in which an extra number of any special memoir or report has been supplied 
he Survey by resolution of Congress or has been ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, this 
•e has no copies for gratuitous distribution. 
ANNUAL REPORTS. 
First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, by Clarence King. 1880. 8°. 79 pp. 
ap. — A preliminary report describing plan of organization and publications. 
:. Second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1880-81, by J. W. Powell. 1882. 
lv, 588 pp. 62 pi. 1 map. * 
I. Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1881-'82, by J. TV. Powell. 1883. 
xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps. 
r . Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1882-'83, by J. TV. Powell. 1884. 
xxxii, 473 pp. 85 pi. and maps. 
. Fifth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1883-'84, by J. TV. Powell. 1885. 
: xxxvi, 469 pp. 58 pi. and maps. 
I. Sixth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1884-'85, by J. W. Powell. 1885. 
xxix, 570 pp. 65 pi. and maps. 
II. Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1885-'86, by J. TV. Powell. 1888. 
xx, 656 pp. 71 pi. and maps. 
III. Eighth Annual Report of tin; United States Geological Survey, 1886-'87, by J. W. Powell. 1889. 
2 pt. xix, 474, xii pp. 53 pi. and maps; 1 p. 1., 475-1063 pp. 54-76 pi. and maps. 
:. Ninth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1887-88, by J. W. Powell. 1889. 
xiii, 717 pp. 88 pi. and maps. 
. Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1888-'89, by J. W. Powell. 1890. 
2 pt. xv, 774 pp. 98 pi. and maps; viii, 123 pp. 
E. Eleventh Annual Report of theUnited States Geological Survey, 1889-'90, by J. TV. Powell. 1891. 
2pt. xv, 757 pp. 66 pi. and maps; ix, 351 pp. 30 pi. 
T. Twelfth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1890-'91, by J. TV. Powell. 1891. 
2pt. xiii, 675 pp. 53 pi. and maps ; xviii, 576 pp. 146 pi. and maps. 
'II. Thirteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1891-'92, by J. TV. Powell. 
, 8°. 3 pt. vii, 240 pp. 2 maps; x, 372 pp. 105 pi. and maps; xi, 486pp. 77 pi. and maps. 
:V. Fourteenth Annual Report of theUnited States Geological Survey, 1892-'93, by J. TV. Powell. 
8°. 2 pt, vi, 321 pp. 1 pi. ; xx, 597 pp. 74 pi. 
T. Fifteenth Annual Report of theUnited States Geological Survey, 1893-'94, by J. W. Powell. 
8°. xiv, 755 pp. 48 pi. 
fl. Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1894-'95, Charles D. 
30tt, Director. 1895. (Parti, 1896.) 8°. 4pt. xxii, 910 pp., 117 pi. and maps: xix, 598 pp., 43 pi. and 
* ; xv, 646 pp., 23 pi. ; xix, 735 pp., 6 pi. 
711. Seventeenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1895-'96, Cnarles D. 
;ott, Director. 1896. 8°. 3 pt. in 4 vol. xxii, 1076 pp., 67 pi. and maps; xxv, 864 pp., 113 pi. and 
* ; xxiii, 542 pp., 8 pi. and maps ; iii, 543-1058 pp., 9-13 pi. 
mi. Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1896-'97, Charles D. 
;ott, Director. 1897. (Parts II and III, 1898.) 8°. 5 pt. in 6 vol. 440 pp., 4 pi. and maps; v, 653pp., 
1. and maps; v, 861 pp., 118 pi. and maps; x. 756 pp., 102 pi. and maps; xii, 642 pp., 1 pi. j 643-1400 pp. 
X. Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1897-98, Charles D. 
;ott, Director. 1898. 8°. 6 pt. in 7 vol. 
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