Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the State Mineralogist for the Year Ending, 1883 The full text of the Mining Bureau Act was published in the first report of the State Mineralogist, December 1, 1880. Since the second and last report, October 1, 1882, a fair progress may be reported. The Mining Bureau still occupies the premises N o 212 Sutter Street. Important and valuable additions have been made to the Museum, a considerable portion of which have been catalogued and placed in the cases. The actual number of Museum specimens entered Since the last report, is and the total number in the catalogue, 5 There 1s as yet no catalogue of the books, of which many have been received during the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.