Title
Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury department
By
Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860
Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891
Norwood, J. G. (Joseph Granville), 1807-1895
Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890
Pratten, Henry.
Shumard, B. F. 1820-1869
Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886
United States. General Land Office.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & co, 1852
Notes
Final report addressed to the commissioner of the U.S. General land office.
Atlas has title: Illustrations to the geological report of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota ...
Appendix. I. Description of new and imperfectly known genera and species of organic remains, by D.D. Owen.--II. Descriptions of one new genus and twenty-two new species of Crinoidea, from the subcarboniferous limestone of Iowa, by D.D. Owen and B.F. Shumard.--III. Summary of the distribution of orders, genera, and species in the northwest.--IV. Additional chemical examinations, by D.D. Owen.--V. Systematic catalogue of plants of Wisconsin and Minnesota, by C.C. Parry.--VI. Systematic catalogue of birds
observed in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, by Henry Pratten.
Contents: Geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, by D.D. Owen.--Geological report of a survey of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, made during the years 1847, '48, '49 and '50 ... by J.G. Norwood.--Geological report of that portion of Wisconsin bordering on the south shore of Lake Superior, surveyed in the year 1849 ... by Charles Whittlesey.--Geological report of local, detailed observations, in the valleys of the Minnesota, Mississippi, and Wisconsin rivers, made in the years 1848 and 1849 ... by B.F. Shumard.--Description of the remains of extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, from Nebraska Territory ... by Joseph Leidy.
Subjects
Birds
,
Botany
,
Geology
,
Minnesota
,
Mississippi River Valley
,
Paleontology
,
Wisconsin
Call Number
QE73 .O34
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.58539
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/05031669
OCLC:
1615311
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