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Topographical atlas sheets

The following topographical atlas maps, published during the year, accompany the copies of Appendix N.N. of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1877, beinig Annual Report of Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, in charge of U. S. Geographical Surveys, are in continuation of the series ninety-five in number, on a scale of 1 inch to 8 miles, embracing the territory of the United S
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George Montague Wheeler

Volume III: Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1877

No abstract available.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Volume XI: Monographs of North American Rodentia

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Elliott Coues, Joel Asaph Allen

[Eighth] Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado and parts of adjacent Territories: being a report of progress of the exploration for the year 1874

No abstract available.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for 1876, Part III, Appendix II

No abstract available.
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Clarence King

Annual report upon the geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and Montana: Being Appendix JJ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1876

No abstract available.
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George Montague Wheeler

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: No. 6, second series

Table of Contents I.----An account of the various publications relating to the travels of Lewis and Clarke, with a commentary on the zoological results of their expedition. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A. II.---Notice of a very large Goniatite from eastern Kansas. By F.B. Meek III.--Fossil orthoptera from the Rocky Mountajn tertiaries. By Samuel H. Scudder IV.--Studies of the American Falconidae: Mon
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Elliott Coues, F.B. Meek, Samuel H. Scudder, Robert Ridgway

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: Volume II, Number 3

Table of Contents I.-----Notes descriptive of some geological sections of the country about the headwaters of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. By F.V. Hayden II.----Notes on the tertiary and cretaceous periods of Kansas. By B.F. Mudge III.---Notes concerning a contour map of the United States. By Henry Gannett, M.E. IV.----The flora of southwestern Colorado. By T.S. Brandegree V.-----Brief syn
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F. V. Hayden, B.F. Mudge, Henry Gannett, T.S. Brandegee, Samuel H. Scudder, George Ainslie

Descriptions and illustrations of fossils from Vancouver's and Sucia Islands, and other northwestern localities

The fossils described and illustrated in this paper were in part collected by Mr. George Gibbs, geologist of the Northwestern Boundary Survey, under the direction of Archibald Campbell, esq., the commissioner appointed in behalf of the United States Government on the joint commission for the survey of the Northwestern Boundary-line.
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F.B. Meek

Geographical and Topographical Atlas accompanying the report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, made by authority of the Hornorable Secretary of War, under the direction of Brig. and Bvt. Major General A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engine

Contains a title, legend, and 11 folio maps in the folio. Contains a topographic (shaded) map of Cordilleran region, limiting meridians 104° and 124°; limiting parallels 29° and 50°. Scale, 60 miles to the inch. Also contains four geologic and four topographic (shaded) maps, on scale of 4 miles to the inch, of the following areas: Sheet I. Longitude, 104° 30'-107° 37'; latitude, 40° 20'-41° 54'.
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Clarence King, Julius Bien

I. Sexual, individual, and geographical variation in leucosticte tephrocotis, II.Geographical variation among North American mammals, especially in respect to size

Having recently had an opportunity (through the kindness of Professor Baird) of studying with some care the magnificent series of skulls of the North American Mammalia belonging to the National Museum (amounting often to eighty or a hundred specimens of a single species), I have been strongly impressed with the different degrees of variability exhibited by the representatives of the species and ge
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J. A. Allen

Instructions for taking, recording, and reducing meteorological observations, and for preserving and repairing the instruments

No abstract available.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler, Richard Leveridge Hoxie, William Louis Marshall