PUBLICATIONS OF UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



[Bulletin No. 254.] 



The serial publications of the United States Geological Survey consist of (1) Annual 

 Reports, (2) Monographs, (3) Professional Papers, (4) "Bulletins, (5) Mineral 

 Resources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas of 

 United States folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of the United 

 States folios thereof. The classes numbered 2, 7, and 8 are sold at cost of publica- 

 tion; the others are distributed free. A circular giving complete lists may be had on 

 application. 



The Professional Papers, Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of 

 subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified 

 into the following series: A, Economic geojogy; B, Descriptive geology; C, System- 

 atic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and 

 physics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous; H, Forestry; I, Irrigation; J, Water stor- 

 age; K, Pumping water; L, Quality of water; M, General hydrographic investiga- 

 tions; N, Water power; 0, Underground waters; P, Hydrographic progress reports. 

 This bulletin is the forty-ninth in Series A and the sixty-first in Series B, the 

 complete lists of which follow. (PP= Professional Paper; B=Bulletin; WS= Water- 

 Supply Paper. ) 



SERIES A, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 



B 21. Lignites of Great Sioux Reservation: Report on region between Grand and Moreau rivers, 



Dakota, by Bailey Willis. 1885. 16 pp., 5 pis. (Out of stock.) 

 B 46. Nature and origin of deposits of phosphate of lime, by R. A. F. Penrose, jr., with introduction 



by N. S. Shaler. 1888. 143 pp. (Out of stock.) 

 B 65. Stratigraphy of the bituminous coal field of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by I. C. 



White. 1891. 212 pp., 11 pis. (Out of stock.) 

 B 111. Geology of Big Stone Gap coal field of Virginia and Kentucky, by M. R. Campbell. 1893. 106 



pp., 6 pis. 



B 132. The disseminated lead ores of southeastern Missouri, by Arthur Winslow. 1896. 31 pp. 

 B 138. Artesian-well prospects in Atlantic Coastal Plain region, by N. H. Darton. 1896. 228 pp., 19 



pis. (Out of stock.) 

 B 139. Geology of Castle Mountain mining district, Montana, by W. H. Weed and L. V. Pirsson. 1896. 



164pp., 17 pis. 



B 143. Bibliography of clays and the ceramic arts, by J. C. Branner. 1896. 114 pp. 

 B 164. Reconnaissance on the Rio Grande coal fields of Texas, by T. W. Vaughan, including a report 



on igneous rocks from the San Carlos coal field, by E. C. E. Lord. 1900. 100 pp., 11 pis. 

 B 178. El Paso tin deposits, by W. H. Weed. 1901. 15 pp., 1 pi. 



B 180. Occurrence and distribution of corundum in United States, by J. H. Pratt. 1901. 98 pp., 14 pis. 

 B 182. A report on the economic geology of the Silverton quadrangle, Colorado, by F. L. Ransome. 



1901. 266 pp., 16 pis. 



B 184. Oil and gas fields of the western interior and northern Texas Coal Measures and of the Upper 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary of the western Gulf coast, by G. I. Adams. 1901. 64 pp., 10 pis. 

 (Out of stock.) 



B 193. The geological relations and distribution of platinum and associated metals, by J. F. Kemp. 



1902. 95 pp., 6 pis. (Out of stock.) 



B 198. The Berea grit oil sand in the Cadiz quadrangle, Ohio, by W. T. Griswold. 1902. 43 pp., 1 pi.' 

 PP 1. Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, with an introductory sketch of 



the geology of southeastern Alaska, by Alfred Hulse Brooks. 1902. 120 pp., 2 pis. 

 B 200. Reconnaissance of the borax deposits of Death Valley and Mohave Desert, by M. R. Campbell. 



1902. 23 pp., 1 pi. 



B 202. Tests for gold and silver in shales from western Kansas, by Waldemar Lindgren. 1902. 21 pp. 

 PP 2. Reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, by A. J. Collier. 



1902. 70 pp., 11 pis. 



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