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Senate Doc. 17, Session No. 3, 1867, gives an account of gold, 
silver, etc. 
The State University has published Report on Mount Diablo, by 
S. B. Christy, in Report of President, of Universiey for 1877. 
In the Reports of the Regents, there are papers on the genesis of 
the cinnabar deposits, by S. B. Christy; Berkeley, 1878. 
List of earthquakes, Report for 1887. 
Building Stones, Report for 1883. 
List of printed maps, Bulletin No. 9, 1887. 
The University has published three Volumes and part of another, 
under the title of University of California, Bull. Dept. of Geology. 
The Bulletins contain special reports on the Geology of Carmelo Bay; 
Geology of Angel Island, The Great Valley of California, Geology of 
Point Sal, Topographic Study of the Islands of Southern California. 
Geology of Point Reyes Peninsula, The Berkeley Hills, Quater- 
nary of Southern California, with several papers on minerals and fossils. 
There is also a Bulletin of the type Specimen in the Geological 
Museum figured in Whitney’s reports. 
In the various scientific serials, many articles on California ap- 
peared, in a long list of some forty publications. We have only space 
to note in general the more important papers. 
In the proceedings of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, Wm. P. Blake, writes on the Probable Age of the 
San Francisco Sandstone, in 1855. 
Prof. Joseph Le Conte, in his address for 1893, discusses the the- 
ories of the origin of mountain ranges. 
In the proceedings for 1895 and 1896, J. P. Smith, of Stanford 
University, notes the Carboniferous Strata of Shasta County and met- 
amorphic series of that region. 
In the American Journal of Conchology, there is a long contro- 
versy regarding the Cretaceous and Eocene formation of California, 
between Conrad, and Gabb. 
Conrad refers the Tejon rocks to the Kocene, and Gabb, to the 
Upper Cretaceous. 
In the American Naturalist, there are papers on the Glacial foriia- 
tions of the Pacific and Atlantic slopes. 
Remarks on fossil shells of Colorado Desert, also a paper on the 
hillocks or mounds formation of San Diego, by Geo. C. Barnes, etc. 
