Miscellaneous Publications, 97 



made for the United States Government. Zurich, 1858. 

 144 pp. 7 plates and 2 geological maps. 



This work contains : 



Chapter I. R^sum6 of a geological reconnoissance extending from 

 Napoleon, at the junction of the Arkansas with the Mississippi, to the 

 Pueblo de los Angeles, in California. The following Californian fossils 

 are described : Fossils of the Tertiary rocks— Osirta Virginica, var, Cali- 

 fornica, Colorado Desert ; Spirifer Hriatus, Mart., Shasta County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



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

 inces 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 mountains 

 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. F^vrier, 1855.) 



Makiposa Gold Company Reports, by Garnet and Wakeley. 

 1863. 81 pp. col. map. 



Mariposa Estate. London, 1861. 63 pp. map. 



Mariposa Estate (The), its past, present, and future. Com- 

 prising the official report of J. Ross Browne upon its 

 mineral resources. Transmitted to Congress, March 5, 

 1868. New York, 1868. 62 pp. 



Marryat, Frank. Mountains and mole hills. New York, 

 1855. 393 pp. 



This is an account of three years in California. Refers to the gold 

 diggings on American River and other places, on p. 210 et seq. 



Manly, W. L. Death Valley in 1847. San Jose', 1894. 498 pp. 



Manson, Marsden. Geological and solar climates: their causes 

 and variations. A thesis, University of California, May, 

 1893. San Francisco, 1894. 49 pp. 



McGarrahan, William. The quicksilver mines of Panoche 

 Grande. Washington, 1860. 



Memorial of the New Idria Mining Company, in the matter of 

 the Panoche Grande Rancho. 1867. 16 pp. 



