| Abstract: | The Geological Survey was organized, with Mr. Clarence King as Director, in March, 1879. In March, 1881, Mr. King resigned and the present Director was appointed. From its organization to the present time the Survey has steadily grown as Congress has enlarged its functions and increased its appropriations. During this time the scientific organization has gradually developed to the condition set forth in the last annual report. It seems advisable now to describe fully the business organization and methods of the Survey, which has heretofore been done only in part.
Under the act of July 7, 1884, a joint commission was created to consider the organization of certain scientific bureaus. In the volume of testimony prepared by that commission the business operations of the Geological Survey were in part set forth; but this partial presentation was unsystematic, the facts recorded being elicited in irregular order by interrogatories arising in the course of a long investigation. It is designed here to make a more thorough exposition oi the subject.
The business system of the Geological Survey is subordinate to the scientific organization and its character is dependent thereon. The development of the divisions of the Survey whose function is the transaction of business has therefore followed the development of the purely scientific divisions, and overy modification of plan for the scientific work may carry with it some modification of the business organization. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 58134 |
| Citation Author: | Powell, J. W. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Citation Number Of Pages: | 473 |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 473 p.; index; 77 plates; 45 figures |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Annual Report |
| Citation Series Code: | AR |
| Citation Series Number: | 8 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 1; 1889; AR; 8; Powell, J. W. |
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| Citation Year: | 1889 |
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| Text: | Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 1; 1889; AR; 8; Powell, J. W. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/ar/08/report-thumb.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/geology/publications/rpt/8-1/ |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/ar/08/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
