| Geology - 1911 - 616 pages
...J. 1879 die Survey durch Kengress-Akte organisiert wurde '), war als ihre vernehmlichste Aufgabe die „Classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources, and products of the national domain" bezeichnet worden. Zwecks Durchführung dieser gesetzlich festgelegten Aufgaben war es zunächst nötig,... | |
| United States - 1911 - 522 pages
...officer [the Director] shall have the direction of the Geological Survey and the classification of public lands and examination of the geological structure,...mineral resources, and products of the national domain. Inasmuch as water is the most abundant and most valuable mineral in nature, the investigation of water... | |
| Geological Survey (U.S.) - Forest reserves - 1911 - 916 pages
...as defined in the act establishing the Survey, were "the classification of the public lands and the examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain. " These duties were at first construed to apply only to the public-land States. Later, however, in... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Public buildings - 1912 - 1462 pages
...other things, " that this officer (the director) shall have the direction of the Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources, and products of the national domain": and the director is especially charged by Congress with the duty of making a topographic base map of... | |
| National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1913 - 476 pages
...thousand dollars: Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources and products of the national domain And the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and the Geographical and Geological... | |
| Philip Sidney Smith - Geology - 1913 - 620 pages
...Survey, it is provided — That this officer shall have the direction of the geological survey and the classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources, and products of the national domain. Clarence King, the first Director, who entered upon his duties May 24, 1879, discusses the functions... | |
| Committee on the Preparation of the Semi- Centennial Volume - 1913 - 466 pages
...thousand dollars: Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination...mineral resources and products of the national domain And the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and the Geographical and Geological... | |
| United States - Law - 1914 - 1302 pages
...thousand dollars : Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of the Geological Survey, and came, such remand shall be immediately carried into...of error from the decision of the district court so ; and that the Director and members of the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests... | |
| Curtis Holbrook Lindley - Mineral lands - 1914 - 996 pages
...was confided the direction of the geological survey, the classification of the public lands and the examination of the geological structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain. The conscientious work of this magnificent organization is a monument to the industry, scientific attainment... | |
| Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1914 - 794 pages
...federal Bureau of Mines. The Geological Survey is charged with the classification of the public lands, an examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and, by appropriations made therefor, the study of the surface and underground water supplies. The... | |
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