14 ECONOMIC BOTANY OF ALABAMA. 



regional descriptions beyond are those at the bottoms of the 

 pages, which are the fundamental ones, the more conspicu- 

 ous ones at the tops belonging only to this one report and 

 not to the whole volume.) 



7. Geological Survey of Alabama. Report for the years 1881 

 and 1882, embracing an account of the agricultural features 

 of the state, xvi + 615 pp., 8 colored maps. 1883. 



Pages 1-154 comprise a general treatise on soils, while 

 the remainder of the book, exclusive of the six climatolog- 

 ical maps and the very full (58 page) index, is essentially 

 the same as No. 6. Unfortunately this has long been out 

 of print. 



8. (With the assistance of L. C. Johnson, D. W. Langdon, Jr., 

 and others.) Report on the geology of the coastal plain of 

 Alabama, xxiv + 759 pp., 29 plates. (Geol. Surv. Ala.) 

 1894. 



9. The underground water resources of Alabama, xvi + 388 

 pp., 30 plates. (Geol. Surv. Ala.) 1907. 



Of Dr. Smith's very numerous contributions to the knowl- 

 edge of Alabama geology and geography, the foregoing 

 seem to be the principal ones that contain descriptions of 

 forests. Many additional titles can be found in Owen's 

 Bibliography of Alabama, and in U. S. Geological Survey 

 Bulletins 127, 188, 301 and 372. 



Stelle, (Prof.) J. P. (agricultural editor. Mobile Register) — An 

 outline expose of the geological, agricultural, hygienic and 

 other interesting characteristics of Mobile County, Ala- 

 bama; embracing surface configuration with area, geolog- 

 ical formations with useful materials, timber with other 

 valuable growths, soils, agricultural capabilities and hy- 

 gienic peculiarities. 8vo. 26 pp. Mobile. 1888. 



This is one of the most complete and impartial county 

 descriptions ever published, in Alabama or anywhere else. 



Tuomey, M. — 1. First biennial report on the geology of Alabama, 

 xxxii + 176 pp. Tuscaloosa, 1850. 



2. Second biennial report on the geology of Alabama. (Edited 

 after the author's death by Dr. J. W. Mallet.) xix + 292 

 pp. and colored geological map. Montgomery, 1858. (Pages 

 2z3-252, on the Cretaceous and Tertiary, are by E. Q. 

 Thornton.) 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Sells. — Soil surveys 

 of various Alabama counties. 



About half the counties in the state have been surveyed 

 by this organization since 1902, after the first few years in 

 co-operation with the state agricultural depai'tment. The 

 resulting maps are useful, and some of the accompanying 

 geographical descriptions are very good; but in the major- 

 ity of cases the authors were not sufficiently familiar with 

 previous literature on the same regions and with the local 

 geography, geology and botany, a condition which has 

 caused serious errors in their reports. 



