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Minnesota
Pages 57-59

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... The third, or present, Survey was crea.tect In 1869. NOTE.- The above statement regarding previous Survey organizations is taken from the United States Geological Survey's report on State Geological Surveys of the United States.
From page 58...
... Administrative and clerical work of the Survey amounts to about fifteen per cent of the total expenditures; geologic investigations, to fifty-five per cent; and printing and engraving, to about thirty per cent. PUBLICATIONS The publications of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota include a series of twenty-four Annual Reports from 1872 to 1898, a series of six Final Reports from 1872 to 1901, and a series of ten Bulletins from 1886 to 1894.
From page 59...
... This appeared under the names of Hall, Meinzer, and Fuller, and the work was done in cooperation with the Minnesota State Board of Health and the United States Geological Survey. This was practically the only geological work undertaken between 1900 and 1911, when the present Minnesota Geological Survey was organized.


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