Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Director, 1914 The act of 1869 provides a fund of per annum for the Geological Survey, but since 1905 this has been augmented by additional funds, through biennial appropriations by the legisla ture, necessary for progress with the topographic and biologic sur veys and for the discharge of cooperative work with the Board Of State Tax Commissioners. The total Of appropriations for all pur poses, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, was and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, I submit below classified accounts of expenditures for the biennium showing (1) the actual cost of the various activities and investigations and (2) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.