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Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics mainly during the fiscal year 1884-85
The present bulletin contains some of the more important results obtained in the chemical laboratory of the United States Geological Survey during the fiscal year 1884—'85. It also contains two physical papers representing work which was mainly done during previous fiscal years, but completed during the one for which this bulletin is issued. These papers are practically continuations of or supplem
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Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America
Herewith I have the honor to transmit the Second of my preliminary studies on the Cambrian Faunas of North America. The larger portion of the report was ready for publication July 7, 1885, but, having visited a number of localities in Utah and Nevada during the season of 1885, numerous additions have been made to both the text and the plates.Very respectfully,CHARLES D. WALCOTT.
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Charles D. Walcott
Systematic review of our present knowledge of fossil insects, including myriapods and arachnids
No abstract available.
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Samuel Hubbard Scudder
The gabbros and associated hornblende rocks occurring in the neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland
Considerable attention has been devoted during late years to the metamorphism of igneous rocks, and it can now be regarded as placed beyond reasonable doubt that such rocks may be changed to more or less schistose masses, which often closely resemble crystallized sediments. This possibility has heretofore been largely ignored, owing doubtless to the extensive obliteration of those characteristics
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George Huntington Williams
Boundaries of the United States and of the several States and Territories, with a historical sketch of the territorial changes
No abstract available.
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Henry Gannett
Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan clays and greensand marls of New Jersey
No abstract available.
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Robert Parr Whitfield
Contributions to the mineralogy of the Rocky Mountains
No abstract available.
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Whitman Cross, W. F. Hillebrand
Fifth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1883-1884
No abstract available.
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J. W. Powell
Geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada
Abstract in beginning of Monograph
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Israel C. Russell
List of marine Mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities between cape Hatteras and cape Roque, including the Bermudas
No abstract available.
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William Healey Dall