A BIBI.IOGRAPHY OF THE GEOIvOGICAI,, MINKRAE- 



OGICAI. AND PAIvEONTOI^OGICAL LITERATURE 



OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. 



BY 



Thomas L. Watson. 

 SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



Introduction 3-4 



EiST OF THK Principal Journals Examinkd, &c 5-6 



Bibliography (by author, alphabetically ) 7-90 



Addenda g i -i 00 



List by Subject and Year 101-109 



Geology, Dynamic and Physiographic 1 01 -102 



Paleontology and Stratigraphic Geology 102-104 



Mineralogy and Petrography 104-105 



Bconomic Geology, Mines and Mining Statis- 

 tics 106-108 



Maps 1 09 



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Introduction. 



The author has for several years past been colledling and 

 noting all references to literature bearing on the geology of the 

 State of Virginia, with a view to publishing such memoranda 

 sooner or later, mainly, for the convenience of future workers 

 in the State. All workers in this State must have recognized 

 the inaccessibility of a large part of the literature, caused by 

 its greatly scattered condition, which is due almost entirely to the 

 facft that, with few exceptions, all contributions have been made 

 by individuals working independently of anj^ organization. Their 

 results were donated to and have been published in papers or 

 periodicals of a more or less local character, and in some cases 

 even these were of a brief existence. Apart from the unfortu- 

 nately short-lived State Geological Survey, under the diredlor- 

 ship of Professor William Barton Rogers — established during 

 the year 1835 and continuing through 1841 — and of recent 

 years, the work of the United States Geological Survey, which 

 has had parties in that field during each season, there has been 



