Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-01-01
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That people in general do not take adj
vantage of their opportunities is truth
as venerable as society itself A particu-
lar application of it is seen in the fact
that many who would be benefited by
study of the publications of the United
States Geological Survey do not appar-
emily realize the privileges to which they
are entitled. The Government is at great
expense to maintain scientific bureaus
the chief Ids of which are to increase
the the sum of human knowledge and to
inform the oeople of the United States
of the pract cal results of the investiga-
tions made. Every means is taken to
give the public the widest possible bene-
fit of the discoveries and inventions of
science. Large sums of money are
annually expended in printing maps,
folios, papers, bulletins. monographs, and
scientific reports of one kind and another.
the great ajority of which are intended
for general and gratuitous distribution.
Many of the publications of the Survey
are of special interest to inhabitants of
particular localities and should have
wide circulation in the areas they con-
Germ. To further this end it seems ad-
visable to cal! the attention of librarians
throughout the country to a congress
sional act approved March 3, 1908, which
provides that the Director of the Geo
logical Survey shall hereafter distribute
to public libraries that have not already
received them, such copies of sale publ
cations as may remain ON hand at the
expiration of five years after date of
delivery to the survey document room,
except reserve which shall not exceed
two hundred copies.
This concerns only the sale publica-
tons of the survey. The great number
of pamphlets and reports intended for
free distribution may be procured at any
time by mere application to the Director
of the United States Geological Survey,
Washington, ID. G.. The sale pub
LEGATIONS are of three classes only
| topographic maps, geologic folios, and
monographs.
The topographic maps are sold at the
rate of five cents sheet of standard size.
For 100 or more in one order, whether of
the same sheet or of different sheets, the
price is two cents "a sheet for the stand
ard size. Special maps and those of
| larger size are sold at propOrtiOnate rates
and on the same conditions of discount.
Prepayment is required, and may be
made by money order payable to the
order of the Director of the United
States Geological Survey, or in cash
the exact amount. Checks and postage
stamps cannot be accepted.
| Geological folios are usually twenty
five cents apiece, although ten of those
issued have, on account of specially
elaborate map work, sold for fifty cents.
Only one, the geologic folio that treats of
Yellowstone Park, sells for seventy-tive
cents These folos should be of interest
to miners, prospectors. and land owners,
and especially to teachers of geography
or geology, and it is expected that there
will be growing demand for their use
in schools.
Monographs range in price from eighty
cents to eleven dollars, the average price
being two dollars. The edition of one of
the most elaborate, ten dollar volume,
has been exhausted. 1t was the work of
Capt. c. f. Dutton and was entitled
1.-The Tertiary History of the Grand
Canyon of Colorado" The subject nat
urally permitted great elaboration and
great perfection of detail in the way of
illustration, and these features brought
up the price of the monograph.
Full circulars descriptive of the publ
cations and maps of the Geological Sur
vey can be obtained on application to the
Director, at Washington, ID. c.