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Summary Information on the State Geological Surveys & the United States Geological Survey Bulletin of the National Research Council (1932) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 47-50

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... Under this broad organization the Survey has inaugurated or administered the State highway work, now in the hands of the State Roads Commission; and the State forestry work, now in the hands of the State Department of Forestry; it has also organized exhibitions representing the State's resources, and other similar projects. ORGANIZATION Since the reorganization of the State in 1920, the Survey has been nominally under the Regents of the University of Maryland, with an Advisory Council consisting of the President of the University of Maryland, the President of the Johns Hopkins University, and two other members appointed by the Governor.
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From page 48...
... In addition, the Johns Hopkins University supplies office and laboratory rooms, light, heat, etc. Besides the specific amounts appropriated by the Legislature, it has been customary to credit to the account of the Survey the monthly receipts for maps and publications remitted to the State Treasurer.
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From page 49...
... PUBLICATIONS The reports of the Survey are in the following series: General reports, 12; special reports, 15; systematic reports, 10; county reports, 14. The general reports constitute a numbered series containing papers on a wide variety of subjects in geography, geology, road work, magnetic surveys, etc.
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From page 50...
... From the end of that Survey in 1862, until the organization of the present Survey, most of the geologieal work done in Maryland was through the a.etivity of the faculty and students of the Johns Hopkins University with occasional studies by members of the United States Geological Survey.
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