ADVERTISEMENT. [Bulletin No. 13.] The publications of the United States Geological Survey are issued in accordance with the statute, approved March 3, 1879, which declares that "The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said Survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange shall be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization: And the money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States." On July 7, 1882, the following joint resolution, referring to all Government publications, was passed by Congress: "That whenever any document or report shall be ordered printed by Congress, there shall be printed in addition to the number in each case stated, the usual number' (1,900) of copies for binding and distribution among those entitled to receive them." Under these general laws it will be seen that none of the Survey publications are furnished to it for gratuitous distribution. The 3,000 copies of the Annual Report are distributed through the document rooms of Congress. The 1,900 copies of each of the publications are distributed to the officers of the legislative and executive departments and to stated depositories throughout the United States. Except, therefore, in those cases where an extra number of any publication is supplied to this office by special resolution of Congress, as has been done in the case of the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Annual Reports, or where a number has been ordered for its use by the Secretary of the Interior, as in the case of Mineral Resources and Dictionary of Altitudes, the Survey has no copies of any of its pub. lications for gratuitous distribution. ANNUAL REPORTS. Of the Annual Reports there have been already published: I. First Annual Report to the Hon. Carl Schurz, by Clarence King. 1880. 8°. 79 pp. 1map.-A preliminary report describing plan of organization and publications. II. Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey for 1880-'81, by J. W. Powell. 1882. 8°. lv, 588 pp. 61 pl. 1 map. III. Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1881-'82, by J. W. Powell. 1883. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pl. and maps. IV. Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1882-'83, by J. W. Powell. 1884. 8°. xii, 473 pp. 85 pl. and maps. The Fifth Annual Report is in press. MONOGRAPHS So far as already determined upon, the list of the Monographs is as follows: I. The Precious Metals, by Clarence King. In preparation. II. Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, with atlas, by Capt. C. E. Dutton. Published. III. Geology of the Comstock Lode and Washoe District, with atlas, by George F. Becker. Pub. lished. IV. Comstock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. Published. V. Copper-bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, by Prof. R. D. Irving. Published. VI. Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by Prof. William M. Fontaine. Published. VII. Silver-lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph S. Curtis. Published. VIII. Paleontology of the Eureka District, Nevada, by Charles D. Walcott. In press. IX. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greens and Marls of New Jer. Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, with atlas, by S. F. Emmons. In preparation. Dinocerata. A Monograph on an extinct order of Ungulates, by Prof. O. C. Marsh. In preparation. Stegosauria, by Prof. O. C. Marsh. In preparation. Of these Monographs, Nos. II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII are now published, viz: II. Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, with atlas, by C. E. Dutton, Capt., U. S. A. 1882. 40. 264 pp. 42 pl. and atlas of 26 double sheets folio. Price $10.12. XV, III. Geology of the Comstock Lode and Washoe District, with atlas, by G. F. Becker. 1882. 49. IV. Comstock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp. 3 pl. Price $1.50. Price $1.85. VI. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by William M. Fon. taine. 1883. 4°. xix, 128 pp. 541 54 pl. Price $1.05. VII. Silver-lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph 8. Curtis, 1884. 4°. xii, 200 pp. 15 pl Price $1.20. Nos. VIII and IX are in press and will soon appear. The others, to which numbers are not assigned, are in preparation. BULLETINS. The Bulletins of the Survey will contain such papers relating to the general purpose of its work as do not properly come under the heads of ANNUAL REPORTS OF MONOGRAPHS. Each of these Bulletins will contain but one paper and will be complete in itself. They will, how ever, be numbered in a continuous series, and will in time be united into volumes of convenient sise. To facilitate this each Bulletin will have two paginations, one proper to itself and another which be ⚫ longs to it as part of the volume. Of this series of Bulletins, Nos. 1 to 13 are already published, viz: 1. On Hypersthene-Andesite and on Triclinic Pyroxene in Augitic Rocks, by Whitman Cross with a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, 1883. 80. 42 pp. 2pl. Price 10 cents 2. Gold and Silver Conversion Tables, giving the coining value of Troy ounces of fine metal, &c., by Albert Williams, jr. 1883. 8°. ii, 8 pp. Price 5 cents. 3. On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian, along the meridian of 76° 30′, from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. Williams. 1884. 80. 36 pp. Price 5 cents 4. On Mesozoic Fossils, by Charles A. White. 1884. 8°. 36 pp. 9 pl. Price 5 cents. 5. A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, compiled by Henry Gannett. 1884. 8°. 5:5 pp. Price 20 cents. 6. Elevations in the Dominion of Canada, by J. W. Spencer. 1884. 8°. 43 pp. Price 5 cente 1752-1881, by Jules Marcou and John Belknap Marcou. 1884. 8°. 184 pp. Price 10 cents. 7. Mapoteca Geologica Americana. A catalogue of geological maps of America (North and South), 8. On Secondary Enlargements of Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks, by R. D. Irving and C. R Vanhise. 1884. 8°. 56 pp. Price 10 cents. 9. A Report of the Work Done in the Washington Laboratory during the fiscal year 1883-84 FW. Clarke, chief chemist; T. M. Chatard, assistant. 1884. 8°. 40 pp. Price 5 cents. 10. On the Cambrian Faunas of North America. Preliminary studies by Charles Doolittle Walcott 1884. 8°. 74 pp. Price 5 cents. 11. On the Quaternary and Recent Mollusca of the Great Basin; with Descriptions of New Forms, by R. Ellsworth Call; introduced by a sketch of the Quaternary Lakes of the Great Basin, by G. K 12. A Crystallographic Study of the Thinolite of Lake Lahontan, by Edward S. Dana. 1884. 80 Gilbert. 1884. 8°. 66 pp. Price 5 cents. 34 pp. Price 5 cents. sketch of the territorial changes, by Henry Gannett. 1885. 8°. 135 pp. Price 10 cents. 13. Boundaries of the United States and of the several States and Territories, with a historical STATISTICAL PAPERS. is contemplated. Of that series the first has been published, viz: Mineral Resources of the United A fourth series of publications having special reference to the mineral resources of the United States The second volume of this series, Mineral Statistics 1883 and 1884, is in preparation and will Correspondence relating to the publications of the Survey, and all remittances, which must be by States, by Albert Williams, jr. 1883. 8°. xvii, 813 pp. Price 50 cents. be put to press. postal note or money order, should be addressed to the DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVET, Washington, D. G |