BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE FERDINAND BECKER 



Compiled by Isabel P. Evans 



1874 



Definition of metallurgy: Min. and Sci. Press, vol. 29, p. 338, Nov. 28, 1874. 



1875 



Metallurgical Science: California University Bull. 7, 12 pp., Jan., 1875. 



Silver; the treatment and reduction of ores: Daily Alta California, vol. 27, no. 9056, p. 1, Jan. 18, 1875; also 



Min. and Sci. Press, vol. 30, p. 65, Jan. 30, 1875. 

 Gold: Min. and Sci. Press, vol. 30, p. 78, Jan. 30, 1875. 



Steel: Daily Morning Call, San Francisco, vol. 37, no. 69, p. 1, Feb. 7, 1875. 

 Quicksilver and fuel: Min. and Sci. Press, vol. 30, pp. 98, 102, Feb. 13, 1875 

 The Comstock; a new feature of its formation: Daily Morning Call, San Francisco, vol. 38, no. 141, p. 1, Oct. 



19, 1875. 

 Notes on a new feature in the Comstock lode: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 10, pp. 459-462, Dec, 1875. 



1876 



Public education and the Carpenter bill: Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, Thursday, Mar. 9, 1876. 

 A costly consequence of the Carpenter bill: Daily Evening Bulletin, San Francisco, Tuesday, Mar. 14, 1876. 

 The future of the State superintendency : Daily Alta California, Mar. 15, 1876. 



1877 



Education; its relation to the State and individual, and its methods: California University Bull. 28, 72 pp., 

 Dec, 1877. 



1878 



The rainfall in California: California University Bull. 31, 10 pp., Feb., 1878. 



Contribution to the history of spectrum analysis: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 16, pp. 392-393, Nov., 1878. 



Correction for vacuum in chemical analysis: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 16, pp. 265-269, 1 fig., 1878. Also, 



Ueber die Reduction der Wagungen auf den luftleeren Raum bei der chemischen Analyse: Liebig's Annalen, 



Bd. 195, pp. 222-227, pi. 2. fig. 6, 1879. 



1880 



[Reconnaissance of the San Francisco, Eureka, and Bodie districts, Nevada]: U. S. Geol. Survey, Clarence' 



King, Director, 1st Ann. Rept., 1879-80, pp. 37-47, Washington, 1880. 

 Atomic weight determinations; a digest of the investigations published since 1814: Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 



no. 358, 149 pp., 1880. 

 (and Hague, J. D.). Mining industries at the Paris exposition of 1878. Report of the Commissioners, 



vol. 4, pp. 165-361, 1880. 



1882 



A summary of the geology of the Comstock lode and the Washoe district: U. S. Geol. Survey, J. W. Powell, 

 Director, 2d Ann. Rept., 1880-1881, pp. 291-330, 1882. Abstract, Science, vol. 4, pp. 66-67, 1884. 



Geology of the Comstock lode and Washoe district: U. S. Geol. Survey, Mon., vol. 3, xv, 422 pp., 7 pis., folio 

 atlas of 21 sheets, Washington, 1882. 



1883 



On the relations of temperature to glaciation: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 26, pp. 167-175, Sept., 1883. 



1884 



The influence of convection on glaciation: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., vol. 27, pp. 473-476, June, 1884. 



The relations of the mineral belts of the Pacific slope to the great upheavals: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., voL 28, 



pp. 209-212, Sept., 1884. Abstract, Am. Nat., vol. 19, p. 1210, 1885. 

 [Notes on California]: Science, vol. 3, p. 665, 1884. 



Geology of quicksilver: U. S. Geol. Survey, Fourth Ann. Rept., pp. 40-41, 1884. 

 [U. S. Geological Survey work in California]: Science, vol. 3, p. 665, 1884. 



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