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Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part I - Director's report, including triangulation and spirit leveling
During the fiscal year 1896-97 the organization of the Geological Survey as set forth in the Director's last report was continued without material change, and the field work of 1896 was largely a continuatoin of the previous season.
The most important change in the field work was rendered necessary by the legislation providing for the establishment of levels and permanent monuments and bench marks
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Charles D. Walcott
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part II - Papers chiefly of a theoretical nature
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M.W. Davis, R. T. Hill, T.W. Vaughan, W.H. Dall, I.C. Russell, G. O. Smith, J.E. Wolff, A. H. Brooks, W.S.T. Smith, N.S. Shaler, G. K. Gilbert
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part III - Economic geology
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G. F. Becker, J. E. Spurr, H. B. Goodrich, Bailey Willis, W. H. Weed, Louis Valentine Pirsson, Waldemar Lindgren, F. H. Knowlton, Chester Wells Purington
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part IV - Hydrography
The completion of this volume marks the revival of extended systematic investigation of the hydrography of the United State. This book is, in effect, the ninth annual report of what has been known as the Irrigation Survey. Its preparation and publication has been made possible by the act of June 11, 1896 (Stat. L., vol. 29, p. 436), which enlarged the scope of the work and authorized the preparati
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Arthur Powell Davis, Frank Leverett, N. H. Darton, J.D. Schuyler
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part V - Mineral resources of the United States, 1896, nonmetallic products, except coal
In the preceding volumes of Mineral Resources the annual reports on the manufacture of coke a well a those on the production of crude petroleum and natural gas were prepared by Mr. Joseph Dame Weeks, of Pittsburg, Pa. The sudden death of Mr. Weeks on December 26, 1896, necessitated the distribution of the work formerly done by him among his former associates in the statistical division of the Geol
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Edward Wheeler Parker, F.H. Oliphant, Jefferson Middleton, William C. Day, Heinrich Ries, T.C. Hopkins, C.E. Siebenthal, T.W. Vaughan, Spencer Newberry, George F. Kunz, Albert C. Peale
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part V - Mineral resources of the United States, 1896, metallic products and coal
This is the thirteenth report of the series, Mineral Resources of the United States. It covers the calendar year 1896, and its scope and the arrangement of the subject treated are practically the same as proceeding volumes.
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David T. Day
Revision of the North American bats off the family Vespertilionidae
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Gerrit S. Miller