LIST OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, ETC. 405 



Gray, Asa, Prof. How Plants Grow: A simple Introduction to Structural Botany; 

 with a Popular Flora, or an Arrangement and description of Common Plants, 

 both Wild and Cultivated. 234 pp., 16mo, illustrated by 500 wood engravings. 

 New York, 1858. Ivison & Phinney. 



Harbors of Lake Michigan. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating the 

 last Annual Keport of Lieut. Col. J. D. Graham, on the Harbors of Lake 

 Michigan, January 11, 1S58. Pub. Doc. 



Harper, L. Preliminary Report on the Geology and Agriculture of the State of 

 Mississippi. 350 pp., with plates of sections. 



Hayden, F. V. Explanations of a Second Edition of a Geological Map of Ne- 

 braska and Kansas, based upon information obtained in an Expedition to the 

 Black Hills. 



Hayes, Dr. A. A. On some Modified Results attending the Decomposition of Bi- 

 tuminous Coals by Heat. 8vo. pamph. 



Holmes, F. S. Post-pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina. 4to. Nos. 1 to 5. $2 

 per No. 



Holmes, Prof. F. S. Remains of Domestic Animals discovered among Post-pleio- 

 cene Fossils in South Carolina. Charleston, S. C. 



Jay, John. A Statistical View of American Agriculture, its Home Resources and 

 Foreign Markets. 12mo., pp. 81. D. Appleton & Co. 



Lea, Isaac. On the Embryonic Forms of Thirty-eight Species of Unionidae, with 

 plates. Philadelphia. 



Leidy, J. Notice of Extinct Yertebrata from the Valley of the Niobrara River. 

 10 pp., 8vo. Philadelphia. 



Leiber, D. M. Second Annual Report of the Survey of South Carolina, with plates 

 and maps. 142 pp., 8vo. 



Meek & Hayden. Descriptions of New Organic Remains collected in Nebraska. 

 20 pp., 8vo. Philadelphia. 



Miller, Hugh. The Cruise of the Betsey; or, a Ramble among the Fossiliferous 

 Rocks of the Hebrides and Scotland. Gould & Lincoln, Boston. 



Newton, G. M. Practical Miner's Guide; a Treatise on Mine Engineering. New- 

 ton, N. Y. 8vo, pp. 191. $2. 



Norton & Porter. First Book of Science; designed for Schools. 12mo.. pp. 302. 

 A. S. Barnes & Co. $1. 



Norwood, J. S., Dr. Illinois Geological Survey. Abstract of a Report on Illinois 

 Coals, with Descriptions and Analyses, and a General Notice of the Coal-fields. 

 94 pp., 8vo. Chicago, 1858. 



Pickering, Charles. The Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals. 4to. 

 (Vol. xv. of the U. S. Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes). Boston, 

 Little, Brown & Co. In cloth, $3. 



Redfield, A. M. General View of the Animal Kingdom. Chart. E. B. & E. C. 

 Kellogg, Hartford. 



Richardson, W. H. Boot and Shoe Makers' Guide. Boston. 



Shumard, Dr. B. F. Descriptions of New Tertiary Fossils from Oregon and Wash- 

 ington Territories, and New Cretaceous Species from Vancouver's Island, 

 pp. 120. 



Description of New Species of Blastoidea from the Palaeozoic 



Rocks of the Western States, with some Observations on the Structure of the 

 Summit of the Genus Pentremites. 12 pp. 



Silliman, B. Jr. First Principles of Physics, or Natural Philosophy, pp. 720. 

 $1.50. Peck & Bliss, Philadelphia. 



Silloway, Thomas W. Text Book of Modern Carpentry, comprising a Treatise on 

 Building, Timber, etc., etc., and a Glossary of the Technical Terms in use 

 among Carpenters. 16mo. Crosby, Nichols & Co. $1.25. 



Smithsonian Institution. Report for 1857. Pub. Doc. 



Track Survey of the River Parana, surveyed by Commander Thomas J. Page, U. 

 S. S. Water Witch, in 1855. Pub. Doc. 



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