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Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States with a more detailed account of the land of Utah with maps

A report from Maj. J. W.Powell, geologist in charge of the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, upon the lands of the Arid Region of the United States, setting forth the extent of said region, and making suggestions as to the conditions under which the lands embraced within its limit may be rendered available for agricultural and grazing purposes. With the
Authors
John Wesley Powell

Report upon United States geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, Volume VII: Archaeology

No abstract available.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler

Volume V: Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1879

The object of the present paper is to set forth some interesting biological facts relating to the gall-making Pemphiginre, and which were presented in abstract at the late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These facts have a special interest just at this time on account of the close relation·ship between the insects of the sub-family in question and the notorious

Volume XII: Fresh-water rhizopods of North America

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Joseph Leidy

Annual Report upon the geographical surveys of the territory of the United States west of the 100th meridian, in the States and Territories of California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Washin

I [George M. Wheeler] have the honor to submit the following report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878: At the close of the present field season parties of the survey will have been engaged in fourteen of the fifteen States and Territories, a part or all of which lie west of the 100th meridian of longitude; the remaining political division (Dakota) alone having been unvisited. The progress o
Authors
George Montague Wheeler

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

Table of Contents ART. XXV.----Field-notes on Birds observed in Dakota and Montana along the Forty-ninth Parallel during the seasons of 1873 and 1874. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A., late Surgeon and Naturalist U.S. Northern Boundary Commission.....545-662 ART. XXVI.----Notes on a Collection of Fishes from the Rio Grande, at Brownsville, Texas-Continued. By D.S. Jordan, M.D......663-668 ART. XXVII.-
Authors
Elliott Coues, D.S. Jordan, A.R. Grote, C.A. White, S. Calvin, W.J. Hoffman

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: Volume IV, Number 4

Table of Contents ART. XXXII.---The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales. By Samuel H. Scudder, Cambridge, Mass.....747-776 ART. XXXIII.---Report on the Collection of Fishes made by Dr. Elllott Cones, U.S.A., in Dakota and Montana, during the seasons of 1873 and 1874. By DavidS. Jordan, M.D......777-800 ART. XXXIV.----Catalogue of Phraenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants collected during
Authors
Samuel H. Scudder, David S. Jordan, J.W. Chickering, F.M. Endlich, C.A. White, J. A. Allen

Descriptions of fishes from the cretaceous and tertiary deposits west of the Mississippi River

This, with the genus following, introduces for the first time into the North American extinct fauna the family of the Dercetiform fishes. The relationship of the family has been discussed by various authors, especially by Pictet and Von der Marek. The former regards them as Teleostei; the latter as "Ganoids". As I do not adopt the division signified by the last name, I find Professor Pictet's view
Authors
E.D. Cope

Field list of time stars for use of the U.S. geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian

No abstract available.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler