Index. 271 



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Blake, Desiccation of wottrn portion of North America 98 



Plasticity of pebbles and rocks 80 



Auriferous drift, parallelism of the 89 



Carboniferous age of gold-bearing rocks 91 



Fossil tooth from Table Mountain.. 91 



Pliocene skull and tlint implements, Table Mountain 121 



Blake, James, Glacial action at Johnson's Pass 106 



Diluvial deposits in California 89 



Blanklnship, Notes on the geology of the Farallones 135 



Blasdale, Contributions to mineralogy of California 43 



Borax, Deposits in California 148 



Borthwiek, Three years in California 148 



Bouchacourt, Notice industrielle sur la Californie 148 



Bourne, Captive in Patagonia 148 



Bowers, Report on Ventura County 26 



Geology of San* Nicolas Island 27 



Reconnoissance of Colorado Desert 32 



Bowie, Hydraulic mining in California 85, 148 



— — Practical treatise on hj^draulic mining in California 148 



Alining debris in California rivers 148 



Bowman, Coast surface and scenic geology of California 104, 148 



Pliocene rivers of California . 58 



Mining development of the northwest Pacific Coast 85 



Geology of the Sierra Nevada in its relation to vein mining. 58 



Report on California Water Company 148 



Brewer, Reports on botany 21 



Water-birds of North America 22 



Age of gold-bearing rocks. Pacific Coast 90 



Age of gold-bearing rocks, California 91 



New physical geography (Warren's) 149 



Alleged discovery of ancient skull in California 90 



Broadhead, On solid hydrocarbons 123 



Brooks, Four months among the gold fields 149 



Bross, Origin of canyons 131 



Brown, C. J., Extinct rivers of the auriferous belt of California 59 



Brown, Robert, On coal fields of north Pacific Coast 110 



Supposed absence of northern drift from Pacific slope of Rocky Mts. 91 



Browne, J. Ross, Historical sketch of gold and silver mining on the Pacific 



Coast 56 



Condition of gold and silver mining on Pacific Coast 56 



Copper resources of Pacific Coast 56 



General condition of mining interest in 1868 57 



The Coast Range, a chronicle of events in California 149 



History of Mariposa estate 160 



Browne, R. E., California placer gold 109 



Mother lode of California 150 



Bryant, What I saw in California 149 



BuflTum, Six months in the gold diggings 149 



Burchard, Reports of United States Mint .. 59 



Burkart, Calif ornischen Gold-Distriktes 114 



Gold lagerstatten Californiens 114 



Burnett, Recollections of an old pioneer 149 



Butler, Resources of Monterey County 149 



