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IT will be in the recollection of geological readers that the chronic feuds to which so many independent United States Government Surveys with rival objects and officers gave rise, were last year referred by Congress to the National Academy of Sciences, and that, acting on the Report submitted by the Academy, Congress determined to abolish all the separate geological and geographical surveys then in existence under different Departments, and to consolidate the work under one establishment, to be termed the United States Geological Survey. In order, however, that the work already in progress might not be wholly lost or indefinitely postponed it was enacted that for the preparation and completion of the reports, maps, and other work of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, of the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, and of the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian under the direction of the Secretary of War, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, should be given to each of these three offices. It is to hoped that these provisions will suffice for the publication of several valuable memoirs which are known to have been in progress for some years.
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G., A. Geological Survey of the United States . Nature 21, 197–198 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021197a0
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