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BULLETIN No. 1. 



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 A notice of the ancient rnins of Southwestern Colorado, examined during the 



eumnier of ld75, by W. H. Holmes 3 



Ruined village on the Eio La Plata 6 



Group of cave-dweliiuga and towers on the Rio San Juan 7 



Canon of the Rio Mancos 10 



Clitf-houses of the Mancos 12 



The triple- walled tower 18 



Ruins at "Aztec Springs" 18 



Ruin at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico 19 



Poftery 21 



A notice of the ancient ruins in Arizona and Utah lying about the Eio San Juan, 



by W. H. Jackson 25 



Pottery 44 



The human remains found among the ancient ruins of Southwestern Colorado 



and Northern New Mexico, by Dr. Emil Bessels 47 



Long bones , 48 



Description of skulls 50 



General considerations 59 



Ancient art in Northwestern Colorado, by El win A. Barber 65 



Bead ornaments employed by the ancient tribes of Utah and Arizona, by E. A. 



Barber 67 



Language and utensils of the modern Utes, by E. A. Barber 71 



Fossil Coleoptcni from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries, by Samuel H. Scudder.. 77 



BULLETIN No. 2. 



Studies of the American Falconid;c, by Robert Ridgway 'Jl 



Ornithology of Guadeloupe Island, based on notes and collections made by Dr. 



Edward Palmer, by Robert Ridgway lSr» 



BULLETIN No. 3. 



Notes descriptive of some geological sections of the country about the headwaters 



of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivei's, by F. V. Ilayden 197 



Notes on the Tertiary and Cretaceous periods of Kansas 211 



Stratigraphical geolog5^ 511 



Tertiary system 21-' 



Cretaceous system '-14 



Notes in relation to the accompanying contour-map of the United States, by 



Henry Gannett, M. E iJ2;5 



Tile flora of South wo>sterii Colorado, by T. S. Brandcgeo 2i7 



List of plants of Colorado not mentioned in Miscellaneous Publication No. 4. 232 

 List of Musci and HepaticiR collected in Southern Colorado, mostly between 

 5,000 and 9,000 feet altitu.le. determined by E. A. Kan, with the assistance 



of C. F. Austin and T. B. Jamis 24C 



Brief synopsis of North American Earwigs, with an appendix on tho fossil spe- 

 cies, by Samuel H. Scudder . . 240 



List of the' Orthoptera collected by Dr. A. S. Packard in Cohuiulo :.utl the 

 noighburing Territories during tho summer of lb75, by Samui-d H. Scud- 

 der 2*)l 



Notice of a small collection of Butterflies made by Dr. A. S. Packard in Colorado 



and Utah in 1»75, by Samu 1 H. Scuoder '2(i9 



Notes on tho granunnr of the Nez Perc*^s language, by Rev. Goorgo .•\in8lie 17] 



