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THE Fifteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey opens with a few words of farewell spoken by the Director, Major Powell, on his retirement. Modestly and briefly he reviews some of the work done by himself and his colleagues, which has been expressed in not less than a thousand maps and two hundred volumes. The last Report issued by him is a worthy successor of the earlier ones in material and in illustrations; many of the latter are exceptionally fine, and show what can be done by the artistic printing on high-class paper of blocks processed from good photographs. When will English officialdom learn that the thousands of pounds spent in promoting research lose nine-tenths of their effect on account of the slovenly and imperfect presentation of the results to the public?
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Recent Work of the United States Geological Survey. Nature 56, 496–499 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056496a0
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