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Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for 1878, Part III, Appendix MM

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Authors
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
Authors
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

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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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Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Elliott Coues

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: Volume IV, Number 3

Table of Contents 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

Table of Contents 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
Authors
E.D. Cope

Field list of time stars for use of the U.S. geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian

No abstract available.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler

Field notes on birds observed in Dakota and Montana along the forty-ninth parallel during the seasons of 1873 and 1874

The following notes result from observations made in the field during my connection with the United States Northern Boundary Commission_ Archibald Campbell, Esq., Commissioner, Major W.J Twining, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. Chief Astronomer.  The line surveyed by the Commission in 1873 and 1874 extended from the Red River of the North to the Rocky Mountains, a distance of 850 miles, along the north
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Elliott Coues

First Annual Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the year 1877 relating to the Rocky Mountain locust and the best methods of preventing its injuries and of guarding against its invasions, in pursuane of an appropriation made by Congre

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Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Illustrations of Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of the western Territories of the United States

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Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

List of longitudes, latitudes, and altitudes, being an extract from Vol. II

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Authors
George Montague Wheeler