2 BEANNEE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF BRAZIL 



Iii 1901, the Bureau of American Eepublics published at Washington 

 "A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Brazil, 1800- 

 1900/' prepared by P. Lee Phillips, 8°, 145 pages. That list includes 

 many titles upon geology and geography, but these articles are not distin- 

 guished from others, and, so far as they relate to geology, there are more 

 omissions than titles. 



The present bibliography contains over 2,000 titles, not counting ab- 

 stracts, notices, and reviews. 



Owing to the poverty of literature upon the geology of Brazil, many 

 books of travel and exploration are included that make no pretense of 

 being works upon geology, but which contain notes upon the subject of 

 more or less value. 



But though the number of titles is over 2,000, the bulk of them treat 

 of the geology of Brazil only at second or third hand. The original 

 papers from which most of these references are taken were written by a 

 few men, the most important contributions being made by Agassiz, 

 Clarke, Derby, Eschwege, Gorceix, Hussak, Lund, Eathbun, C. A. White, 

 and Woodward, while the field work from which these results have been 

 obtained was done by still fewer. Some of these men have also done a 

 vast amount of work in cognate branches of science. Lund, for example, 

 worked on zoology and botany, as well as on geology; and the papers of 

 Liitken, Eheinhardt, and Warming on botany and zoology are the direct 

 outcome of Lund's work in Brazil. 



This list emphasizes the fact that the great bulk of the geologic work 

 in Brazil has been done by two men — Eschwege and Derby. These men 

 are noteworthy both for the amount and the character of their work. 

 Eschwege's results were mostly published in German, and have therefore 

 not been as accessible to Brazilian students as if they had been published 

 in Portuguese or French. 



Fortunately the results of Derby's work have been published in Portu- 

 guese as well as in English, and his influence upon geologic work in 

 Brazil has been correspondingly important. Moreover, Derby's influence 

 has extended even further than the long list of his valuable papers would 

 indicate, for almost every modern writer upon the geology of Brazil has 

 been inspired by Derby's work, and not a few of them have based their 

 conclusions almost entirely upon data furnished by him. 



Mr Henri Gorceix, for several years director of the Escola de Minas at 

 Ouro Preto, has also done much to arouse an interest in the mineralogy 

 of Brazil and in mining engineering. Several of his students are now 

 among the most active and efficient workers on the geology of the country. 



The present bibliography is chiefly an author's list arranged alpha- 

 betically. When there are several titles credited to one author, they are 

 arranged chronologically. 



