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Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: No. 6, second series
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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
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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.
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George Montague Wheeler, Richard Leveridge Hoxie, William Louis Marshall
Notes on the geology of northeastern New Mexico
In the region of the headwaters of the Canadian is embraced a territory which, for the completeness of its geological record and the interest of its concomitant topographical and scenic features, is not excelled perhaps by a similar extent of country in the West. It is bounded on the west by the Spanish range, which in this part of its course consists of a densely-wooded watershed-divide, 9,000 to
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O. St. John
Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Volume VI: Microscopical petrography
This publication contains a report on crystalline rocks along the Fortieth Parallel in the Western United States.
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Ferdinand Zirkel, Clarence King
Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto
No abstract available.
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John Wesley Powell
The Grotto Geyser of the Yellowstone National Park
No abstract available.
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
Topographical atlas sheets
The following topographical atlas sheets, accompanying Appendix J.J. of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army-being Annual Report upon U. S. Geographical Surveys-have been published during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and are a portion of the series projected to embrace the territory of the United States lying west of the 100th meridian.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler