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Show 113 June 30,1876, covers the expense only of the field and office work of the survey, but not the publication of maps or illustrations for the survey-reports. In the act approved June 23, 1874, the amount of $ 25,000 was appropriated for the fiscal year ending Juue 30, 1875, for illustrations for the vol nines to be published. The greater number of the manuscripts for the six volumes proposed ( see Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1873, p. 1717) are ready for the press, and only await the preparation of the illustrations for the same, which will be begun early in the coming fall. The necessary changes, in the manner proposed in the last annual report, for the form and scope of the volumes are as follows: Volume 1 is to include the general report of 1873, and coudensed reports upon all the mining- districts visited since the year 1871. It should be complete soon after the return of the expedition of 1874. Volume 2 is to include reports upon the astronomical stations of 1873. The manuscript will be ready for the press as soon as the observations necessary for the connection of the astronomical observatory at Ogden, Utah, witli the U. S. Naval Observatory at Washington, 1). C., are computed. Volume 3 is to embrace the subjects proposed in the annual report of this year. Jt is somewhat doubtful whether it can be published during the present fiscal year. Volume 4, as indicated in the main body of the report, approaches completion, and ought to be ready for the press by October 10. The examination of fossils and the preparation of reports upon paleontology are going on while the parties are in the field, and ought to be well advanced by the 1st of October. This volume will also contain a report npon the vertebrate fossils collected in 1873. Manuscript reports for volume 6 are nearly ready, and can go forward to the printer during October. It has been found impossible to include in the present annual report total results up to date iu the astronomical, meteorological, and topographical branches, as stated in my last annual report. They are all brought closely to completion, however; and the reports relating to the coguate branches of the survey, as therein indicated, will be hereafter brought out in special form. The present field- season must necessarily be a short one, and during the coining year it is deemed possible to establish a complete harmony between field and office work and results so that, as nearly as possible, within the fiscal year, the final results shall be placed in publication-form. PUBLICATIONS. Since the inception of the work under my charge,. the following separate publications other than maps relating thereto have appeared: Preliminary Report, 1869, ( octavo;) Preliminary Report, 1871, ( quarto;) Table of Camps, Distances, & c, 1871 and 1872, ( quarto;) List of Mining- Questions; List of Mining- Districts Visited, 1871,1872, and 1873^ Landscape and Stereoscopic Views taken in the years 1871,1872, and .1873 ; Preliminary Report upon the Fishes, 1871 and 1872, by Prof. E. D. Cope, ( pamphlet;) Annotated List of the Birds of Utah, collected in 1872, ( pamphlet.) The following reports have been submitted to the Engineer Department, with a request for their publication, and it is believed have gone forward to press: Progress Report, 1872; Report upon the Botanical Collections of 1871, 1872, and 1873; Report upon the Ornithological Collections of 1871 and 1872. FF- 8 |