Miscellaneous Puhlications. 159 



Manson, Marsden. Geological and solar climates: their 

 causes and variations. A thesis, University of Califor- 

 nia, May, 1893. San Francisco, 1894. 49 pp. 



Marcou, Jules. American geological classification and 

 nomenclature. Cambridge, 1888. 75 pp. 



The author remarks on p. 44: "In California, the Cretaceous is 

 limited to the northwest corner of the State, and occupies a small 

 area west of Mount Shasta. The Geological Survey of California, 

 directed by Mr. J. D. Whitney, has called Cretaceous all the 

 Eocene of Fort Tejon and Chico Creek." • 



Geology of North America; with two reports on the 



prairies of Arkansas and Texas, the Rocky Mountains of 

 New Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada of California, orig- 

 inally made for the United States Government. Zurich, 

 1858. 144 pp. 7 plates and 2 geological maps. 



This work contains : 



Chapter I. Resume of a geological reconnoissance extending 

 from Napoleon, at the junction of the Arkansas with the Missis- 

 sippi, to the Pueblo de los Angeles, in California. The following 

 Californian fossils are described : Fossils of the Tertiary rocks — 

 Ostria Virginica, var. Calif ornica, Colorado Desert ; Spirifer 

 striatus, Mart., Shasta County, California. 



Chapter V. On the geology of the United States and British 

 Provinces of North America. Geological map of North America. 

 (Extract from Dr. Petermann's Geographischen Mittheilungen, 

 Heft. 6, in 4to. Gotha, 1855.) Contains a notice of the California 

 Desert, or Great Basin, the Cascade Range, the Coast Range. 



Chapter VI. Sketch of a geological classification of the moun- 

 tains of a part of North America. (Extract from Annales des 

 Mines, 5 ser., tome vii, p. 329. Paris, 1855.) Contains description 

 of Coast Range and Sierra Nevada system. 



Chapter VII. On the gold of California. (Extract from Biblio- 

 theque Universelle de Geneve. Fevrier, 1855.) 



Chapter X. List of maps and memoirs on the geology of Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, and Washington Territory. 



Mariposa Gold Company Reports, by Garnet and Wakeley. 

 1863. 81 pp. col. map. 



IVIariposa Estate. By J. C. Fremont and Frederick Billings. 

 London, 1861. 63 pp. map. 



Contains letter of Professor Whitney on the mineral wealth of 

 Mariposa Estate. 



