168 A Bibliography of the Geology, etc., of California. 



Whitney, J. D. The metallic wealth of the United States 

 described and compared with that of other countries. 

 Philadelphia, 1854. 510 pp. 



An account of the gold, with the geology of this region, in Cali- 

 fornia, is given on pp. 134-149. 



Contributions to American Geology, vol. 1. Cam- 

 bridge. 



This was also published by Mus. Comp. Zoology, Memoirs vol. 6, 

 1880, as The auriferous gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California. 



Contributions to American Geology, vol. 2. 



This volume contains Whitney's Climatic changes of later geolog- 

 ical times, and Lesquereux's Fossil plants of the auriferous gravels, 

 published in vols. 6 and 7, Mus. Comp. Zoology, Memoirs, 1880-82. 



Letter of Professor Whitney, State Geologist of Cali- 

 fornia. In the Mariposa Estate, London, 1861, pp. 5-7. 



Woods, Daniel B. Sixteen months at the gold diggings. 

 New York, 1851. 199 pp. 



The appendix contains a letter from Prof. Edward Hitchcock on 

 the gold mines of California. 



Wright, G. F. The Ice Age in North America, and its bear- 

 ings upon the antiquity of man, by G. Frederick Wright ; 

 with an appendix on the probable cause of glaciation, by 

 Warren Upham. New York, 1889. 622 pp. maps and 

 many illustrations. 



The author notices the existing glaciers of California, ancient 

 glaciers, the terminal moraines of California, the pre-historic man 

 in California, ancient river-beds, etc. 



Wyld, J. Guide to California. London, 1849. 



— — Notes on the distribution of gold throughout the world, 

 including Australia, California, and Russia. London, 

 2d edition, 1851 ; 3d edition, 1853. 



Geographical and mineralogical notes to accompany 



Wyld's map of the gold regions. London, 1849. 



Yale, Gregory. Legal titles to mining claims and water 



rights in California. San Francisco, 1867. 452 pp. 



This legal work gives the history of early mining legislation in the 

 United States, and especially that of California. 



