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Suggestions for combating objectionable roosts of birds with special reference to those of starlings

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E.R. Kalmbach

Geology and ground-water resources of the "Equus beds" area in south central Kansas

This paper summarizes the results of a detailed investigation by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Kansas State Geological Survey, Kansas State Board of Health, and the City of Wichita. The geology of the area has been remapped, and several new formations have been established, including the Emma Creek formation of middle and upper Pliocene age, and a thick loess deposit. The hyd
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Stanley William Lohman, John Chapman Frye
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Water Resources Mission Area, Kansas Water Science Center

Abstract of fur laws, 1940-41

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Frank G. Grimes

Fryer rabbit production

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George S. Templeton

The northern copperhead in Iowa

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Reeve M. Bailey

The new international commission of snow and glaciers

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Francois E. Matthes

Channel‐storage and unit‐hydrograph studies

Recent studies of the rainfal‐and‐runoff relation tend towards treatment of the subject in two parts, namely, (1) the ground‐phase, which includes the study of such processes as infiltration and evaporation, and (2) the channel‐phase, which comprehends the study of the flow of water in the channel‐system with particular reference to flood‐wave movement. This paper discusses the channel‐phase.
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W. B. Langbein

Remarques sur les méthodes brock et multiplex

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M.T.P. Pendleton

Oilfields of the United States

The modern petroleum industry in the United States of America dates from the drilling of the first commercial oil well in 1859. Up to the present, about a million wells have been drilled for oil and gas, and the total production of petroleum has been 22,452,498,000 barrels, which has been contributed by twenty-three of the forty-eight States.
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Hugh D. Miser

The Vaucluse gold mine, Orange County, Virginia

The Vaucluse gold property has been worked intermittently since gold was discovered in 1832. The latest operation was carried on by the V-M Corporation from March 1935 to November 1938, producing 26,452 tons of ore of \$143,760 gross value, of which \$91,569.36 was won in 1938.The host rock is a quartz-sericite-chlorite schist. The workings lie wholly within a well-defined shear zone up to 40 feet
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Charles Edward Bass

Salinity of the lower Savannah River in relation to stream‐flow and tidal action

In order to obtain information needed in planning for industrial development along the Savannah River and in the city of Savannah, Georgia, a study of the salinity of the Savannah River was undertaken by the Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the Georgia Division of Mines, Mining, and Geology. The Works Progress Administration of Georgia and the city o
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William L. Lamar

On the flow of water in an elastic artesian aquifer

Slichter showed in 1898 that a solution may be obtained for a given problem in the steady motion of ground‐water by solving the familiar Laplace equation and that therefore in steady‐state conditions a problem in the motion of ground‐water is mathematically analogous to a problem in the steady flow of heat or electricity [see 1 of “References” at end of paper]. More recently it has been recognized
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C. E. Jacob