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PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY.

The output of the photographic laboratory included 16,004 negatives, of which 11,603 were dry, 3,342 were wet, and 1,059 were paper; and 40,748 prints, of which 16,331 were maps and diagrams and 24,417 were photographs for illustrations.

ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH.

EXECUTIVE DIVISION.

The work in the executive division was of the same scope as in other years, except for the transfer of the administrative bookkeeper to the division of disbursements and accounts. Considerable time was given by the chief of the division and two clerks to reports on various subjects for the use of the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency. A special file of these reports and of the correspondence relating to them is maintained.

In many items the work performed by the division shows increase, in spite of the separation of the Bureau of Mines from the Geological Survey. The decreases mentioned below are due in large part to that separation.

Mails, files, and records.-During the year 134,386 pieces of incoming mail were handled in this division, an increase of 1 per cent over the number handled in the preceding fiscal year. Of this number 2,590 were registered, which is an increase of slightly more than 10 per cent over the preceding year. This number does not include the pieces of mail distributed unopened to the several branches, divisions, sections, and individuals in the Survey. Since March 1 a record of mail distributed unopened has been kept, and the number of pieces of such mail handled during the four months was 99,158.

Of the letters opened in this division, 26,076 contained remittances for Survey publications, a slight increase over the number of similar letters received during the last fiscal year, but the amount of money received, $23,790.18, is $68.68 less than last year.

The recording, referring, and filing of correspondence required the services of 5 clerks throughout the year. The number of letters mailed through the division was 92,126, an increase of about 8 per cent. Of this number 20,951 were registered, which is an increase of 73 per cent.

Personnel. The roll of those holding Secretary's appointments numbered at the close of the fiscal year 862 persons, compared with 958 at the close of the fiscal year 1909-10. The total number of changes in the personnel for the year was 1,119, which included original appointments, separations, promotions, extensions, and changes of status of every description. Of these, 275 were new appointments, 370 were separations (including 53 transfers to the

Bureau of Standards and 140 transfers to the Bureau of Mines, organized July 1, 1910), 375 were promotions, and 6 were reductions.

During the year 12,794 days of annual leave and 3,396 days of sick leave were granted, being about 68 per cent of the amount of annual leave and 18 per cent of the amount of sick leave which it is permissible to grant under the law; also 3,239 days of leave without pay. In addition to the above there were 203 transfers to State pay rolls in cooperative work.

Property. An inventory of nonexpendable property in Washington was submitted to the department at the close of the calendar year 1910.

Express and freight.-During the year 4,009 pieces of freight and express were handled, of which 1,427 were outgoing and 2,582 were incoming. This was a decrease of 10 per cent in the number of pieces handled. There were 451 transportation accounts checked, a decrease of about 20 per cent.

A change was made in the method of recording express and freight shipments so as to segregate the outstanding transportation accounts in the card record. Except for the rearrangement of the cards, which has been completed, this involved no additional clerical work, and it facilitates the checking of transportation accounts.

Purchase and distribution of supplies.-The purchase and distribution of supplies, which includes the work of procuring bids, issuing orders, and preparing vouchers covering all purchases in open market, required the services of 3 persons. The number of requisitions handled was 2,157, an increase of more than 7 per cent.

Stationery. There were 7,148 requisitions filled from stock in the stationery room. The requisitions drawn on the department numbered 330 for miscellaneous supplies, 184 for stationery, and 430 for printing. These figures show an increase over those for 1910, except in requisitions for stationery and printing drawn on the department, and the decrease in those items is accounted for by the fact that the requisitions called for larger quantities than those drawn in previous

years.

During the last half of the year the work of the stationery room has been reorganized. A simple but effective system of records has been established, including a stock record which shows at all times the condition of stock on hand and a file of requisitions by branches and divisions. Several new forms have also been issued, including invoices to accompany shipments of stationery supplies to the field and orders to indicate shortage of supplies which are out of stock. On account of assignments to other work, illness, and other causes the force in the stationery room has varied during the year, but it normally consists of 4 men, including the clerk in charge of the property records.

DIVISION OF DISBURSEMENTS AND ACCOUNTS.

A condensed statement covering the financial transactions of the fiscal year is given below:

Amounts appropriated for and expended by the United States Geological Survey pertaining to the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911.

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The following table gives the classified net expenditures by the Survey for the fiscal year, the repayments shown in the preceding table having been deducted:

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Classification of expenditures by the United States Geological Survey pertaining to the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911.

LIBRARY.

The library has received during the year, by purchase and exchange, 11,388 books and pamphlets and 875 maps, some of which are of temporary value only and will not be recorded as accessions to the permanent collection. The exchanges received during the year were notably valuable. A careful estimate shows that the library now contains 86,000 books, 100,000 pamphlets, and about 100,000 maps. Accessions are restricted as closely as possible to publications that consider subjects within the scope of the Survey's work and that will probably be of permanent value. Publications on other scientific subjects are transferred to the Library of Congress. Notwithstanding the efforts to confine the increase to the narrowest limits consistent with usefulness, the need of additional shelf room is now urgent.

The number of persons consulting the library during the year was 7,873, and 10,326 books and 521 maps were loaned for use outside.

Of the current receipts all material which is unquestionably of permanent value to the library is promptly recorded by full titles in the author and subject catalogues. Other material is recorded in briefer manner, classed, and shelved where it is available for use. During the year 5,812 volumes and 631 maps were catalogued.

Additions to the card catalogue during the year numbered 6,976. The Survey continues to furnish to the Library of Congress for printing on its cards the catalogue entries of geologic publications; of these entries 733 were supplied during the year.

The correspondence consisted of 4,528 letters received and 3,495 letters written and related largely to the exchange of publications. The demand for the publications of the survey is very active in the educational and scientific institutions throughout the world which have departments of geology or are interested in the subjects covered by the reports. The list of institutions to which full sets are distributed now numbers 355 in the United States and 582 in foreign countries, a total of 937. Publications that are of value to the library are received in exchange from most of the institutions on this list. The authorized distribution of the Survey publications from the office of the superintendent of documents, Government Printing Office, supplies public and school libraries and other institutions which have no exchange agreements with the Survey, and duplication of distribution is carefully avoided. To an additional list of 508 persons and institutions, domestic and foreign, selected publications are furnished in return for certain of their own publications supplied to the library. The gratuitous distribution of the topographic sheets to libraries is now practically up to the authorized number-500. The geologic folios are furnished to 375 libraries, in addition to the

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