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Eleventh Annual Report of United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories embracing Idaho and Wyoming, being a report of progress of the exploration for the year 1877
No abstract available.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
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
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John Wesley Powell
Report upon United States geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, Volume VII: Archaeology
No abstract available.
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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.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Joseph Leidy
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for 1878, Part III, Appendix MM
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Clarence King
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
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George Montague Wheeler
Bibliography of North American invertebrate paleontology, being a report upon the publications that have hitherto been made upon the invertebrate paleontology of North America, including the West Indies and Greenland
No abstract available.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, C.A. White, H. Alleyne Nicholson
Birds of the Colorado Valley: A repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology: Part first, Passeres to Laniidæ, bibliographic appendix, seventy illustrations
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Elliott Coues
Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: Volume IV, Number 3
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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.-
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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
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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
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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
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E.D. Cope