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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904, 



By those who knew him, Kino- is described as a man of rare charm 

 of manner, cheerful and courteous disposition, with interests broad as 

 civilization and sympathies catholic as humanity. A man of remark- 

 ably robust physique, he yet broke down almost in the prime of life, 

 and died of consumption in 1901. 



IT. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS WEST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN UNDER 

 LIEUT. G. M. WHEELER. 



In 1869 Lieut, G. M. Wheeler, of the United States Engineers, was 

 authorized to undertake a military reconnoissance for topographical 

 purposes in southwest Nevada and western Utah. No geologist accom- 

 wheeier-s surveys V>""^ the party until 1871, the work being purely 

 Merid?ln he 100th topographical. In the last-named year (J. K.Gilbert 

 1869-1879. was appointed chief geologist, serving through three 



field seasons, with A. K. Marvine, assistant in 1871, and E. E. Howell, 

 in 1872-73. J. J. Stevenson served as geologist with one of the parties 



in 1873, Jules Marcou in 1875, A. R. Conk- 

 ling in 1875-1877, and J. A. Church in 1877. 

 In 1878-7!' Stevenson was again attached to 

 the survey, with I. C. Russell as assistant. 

 Oscar Loew served as mineralogical assistant 

 during 1871-1875, and E. D. Cope as verte- 

 brate paleontologist in 1871. 



The invertebrate paleontological collec- 

 tions made by all of the parties were worked 

 up by Dr. C. A. White, then connected with 

 Bowdoin College, after a preliminary ex- 

 amination by F. B. Meek. The results of 

 the geological work appeared in the form of 

 two quarto volumes, the first, of 681 pages, 

 in 1875; and the second, of 120 pages, in 

 1881 — the latter with an appendix by Doctor White, comprising 36 

 pages of text and 2 plates of fossils. The paleontological report 

 proper, comprising the work of both Cope and White, appeared under 

 date of 1877, a quarto volume of 599 pages and 83 plates of fossils. 



The first vertebrate fossils from the western Triassic were described 

 in this report, the materials having been obtained by Professor New- 

 berry when attached to the Macomb expedition in 1855. 



Gilbert applied the names Basin Range system and Basin Ranges to 

 all that s} T stem of short mountain ridges separated by trough-like 

 valleys which lie west of the plateau system, though not quite coin- 

 cident with the Great Basin itself. This basis system of mountain 

 uplift he regarded as due mainly to faulting and tilting, in this respect 

 differing with the geologists of the. Fortieth Parallel Survey, who 



Grove Karl Gilbert. 



