Lakes of New York, Bureau of Fisheries; American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, 1915; American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, 1918; Report on education of the natives of Alaska; Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1910; Department of Agriculture Bulletins 181, 198, and 204; Census reports, volumes 1-3, population, volume 5 (agriculture, general report and analysis); Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Report 100, Potash from kelp; Planetable manual (Appendix 7, report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1905); United States Coast Pilot, part 4, Point Judith to New York; Inside Route Pilot, Key West to New Orleans; Inside Route Pilot, coast of New Jersey; Revenue-Cutter Service Bulletin 3, International ice observation and ice patrol in the north Atlantic Ocean; Bureau of Mines Bulletin 98, report of the Selby Smelter Commission; Interstate Commerce Commission reports, volume 24; House Document 971, Sixty-third Congress, second session-Red Lake Reservation;. illustrations for Geological Survey Bulletins 527, 531-B, 575, 576, 578, 580-K, 580-M, 581-D, 582, 586, 589, 590, 592, 592–A, 596, 600, 602, 604, 606, Professional Papers 87, 90-I, 90-J, 95–B, Water-Supply Papers 306, 309, 319, 338, 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 366, 367, 368, 369, Mineral Resources, The stone industry in 1912, The stone industry in 1915, and Topographic instructions of the Geological Survey. In addition, the following separate illustrations were printed and delivered to the Government Printing Office: Diagrams of six bird reservations and one elk reservation; panoramic views of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier, Mount Rainier, and Crater Lake national parks; maps showing glaciers of Glacier and Mount Rainier national parks; map showing origin of the scenic features of Glacier National Park; Photometric lamp-sheet test, Form 174; township blank, Form 4-675a; map of National Zoological Park; map of the United States by counties; map of the world (Department of Agriculture); map showing the areas quarantined for the gypsy moth and brown-tail moth, 1914 (Department of Agriculture); Protractor, Form 678 (Department of the Interior); sectional diagram (Department of the Interior); identification cards (Department of the Interior); sample markings for brass caps (Department of the Interior).

The following work was done for other Government departments and bureaus: For the Forest Service, maps of 17 national forests, 11 fire folders and tourists maps, 5 proclamation diagrams of national forests, 4 enlargements of field sheets, annual programs of work, 1914 and 1915, annual estimate blank, blank form (grazing classification), diagram, Form 493, homestead entry plats, lookout station protractor, map showing national forest areas, map of North America 7 by 10 inches, map of North America 15 by 20 inches, North America outline map, map of southern Appalachian region, United

States contour map, section diagrams, and other miscellaneous work; for the General Land Office, 1,492 township plats, 677 mineral plats, 12 State maps showing homesteads, maps of two Indian reservations, 21 plats of villa sites, and other miscellaneous works; for the Office of Indian Affairs, maps of 4 Indian reservations; for the Panama Canal, 10 maps of Canal Zone and 1 map showing Isthmus and completed canal. Work was also done for the Reclamation Service, Alaska Boundary Survey, War Department (Corps of Engineers, United States Army), Interstate Commerce Commission, District of Columbia (public schools), War Department (Students' Military Instruction Camp), Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Bureau of Mines, Bureau of Standards, Bureau of Education, Weather Bureau, Public Health Service, Department of the Interior, Smithsonian Institution, Alaskan Engineering Commission, Bureau of Lighthouses, Department of Labor, Department of Agriculture (Bureau of Chemistry), War Department (Army Service Schools and Coast Artillery School), Department of Labor (Immigration Service), Navy Department (United States Marine Corps), Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hydrographic Office, Bureau of American Ethnology, National Museum, Post Office Department, Bureau of Soils, and United States and Canada Boundary Survey. In addition to the above, a large amount of miscellaneous work was done for other divisions and branches of the Survey. This work for various branches of the Government amounted to about $72,000, for which the division was reimbursed by transfer of credit on the books of the United States Treasury.

Work was also done for Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Heliotype Co. of Boston, Norris Peters Co., Geological Survey of New Jersey, J. M. Kennedy, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, War Department (United States Engineers Office, Philadelphia, Pa.), and N. C. Grover, and the money received in payment for the work, amounting to about $350, was turned into the Treasury of the United States to be credited to miscellaneous receipts. Under cooperative agreements, transfer impressions were furnished without charge to the State surveys of Kentucky, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

There was also a large amount of miscellaneous office work, including index circulars, list of geologic folios and topographic maps, State maps, etc. This work, for which no refund was obtained, amounted to about $4,500.

Of contract and miscellaneous printing of all kinds, the total number of copies delivered was 2,803,428, which required approximately 3,850,004 printings. The total number of copies printed, including topographic maps and geologic folios, was 3,533,726, requiring ap

proximately 8,525,104 impressions. On requisition of the Government Printing Office, 333 transfer impressions were made and shipped by contracting printers.

PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY.

The output of the photographic laboratory included 15,095 negatives, of which 2,378 were dry, 3,652 were wet, 664 were paper, 7,437 were field negatives developed, 964 were lantern slides, and 2,361 were photolithographic; 3,824 zinc plates, 278 zinc etchings, 248 celluloids, and 48,734 prints, of which 22,906 were maps and diagrams and 25,828 were photographs for illustrations. In addition 2,110 prints were mounted and 192 slides colored.

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH.

EXECUTIVE DIVISION.

The work in the executive division was of the usual scope except that the work of the stores section and the shipping and receiving clerk was transferred to the division of accounts.

Mails, files, and records. During the year 138,791 pieces of mail, of which 2,443 were registered, were opened and referred. In addition, 90,395 letters were received direct by the other divisions, a total of 229,186 for the Survey.

Of the letters opened in this division, 24,037 contained a total of $28,521.80 remitted for Survey publications, a decrease of 1 per cent in number of letters, and $1,283.93 in amount, compared with the fiscal year 1914.

The recording, referring, filing, and mailing of correspondence required practically the entire services of seven clerks. The number of letters mailed through the division was 136,827, an increase of about 13 per cent over the preceding year. This number does not include the outgoing registered mail, which numbered 11,960 pieces, or 239,559 pieces of letter mail sent direct from the other divisionsa total of 388,346 for the Survey, an increase of 6 per cent over 1914. Personnel. The roll of Secretary's appointees numbered 909 at the close of the fiscal year, 18 more than at the close of the fiscal year 1914. The total number of changes in the personnel for the year was 586, which included 131 new appointments, 112 separations, 305 promotions, 2 reductions, and 36 miscellaneous changes.

During the year 15,037 days of annual leave and 2,771 days of sick leave were granted, being 66 per cent of the amount of annual leave and 12 per cent of the amount of sick leave which it is permissible to grant under the law; 5,288 days of leave without pay were also granted.

DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS.

During the year the handling of express and freight shipments and issuing of stationery supplies from stock was transferred from the executive division to the division of accounts. During the year 3,504 pieces of freight and express were handled, of which 970 were outgoing and 2,534 were incoming, and 6,338 requisitions were filled from stock in the stationery room.

A condensed statement covering the financial transactions during the fiscal year is given below, including disbursements up to September 30. The unexpended balances of that date largely represent outstanding obligations.

Amounts appropriated for and expended by the United States Geological Survey pertaining to the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915.