BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



Vol. 20, pp. 1-132 February 12, 1909 



BIBLIOGKAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY, MINEBALOGY, AND 

 PALEONTOLOGY OF BKAZIL* 



BY JOHN C. BRANNER 



(Presented by title before the Society December 27, 1905) 



CONTENTS 



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Introduction 1 



Bibliography 3 



Introduction 



No comprehensive bibliography of the geology of Brazil has hitherto 

 been attempted. M. de Margerie, in his Catalogue des Bibliographies 

 Geologiques, published in Paris in 1896 by the Congres Geologique Inter- 

 national, mentions six papers upon geologic subjects, each of which con- 

 tains references to Brazilian geology; but none of these lists makes any 

 pretense of being a bibliography of the geology of Brazil. In 1881 the 

 Bibliotheca Nacional, at Kio de Janeiro, published its important Catalogo 

 da Exposigao da Historia do Brazil in two large volumes. One of these 

 volumes contains a list of the books and papers in the Bibliotheca 

 Nacional that relate to the geology of Brazil,- and included in this are 

 many titles of works belonging to private individuals and not belonging 

 to the library at that time. That is the nearest approach that has yet 

 been made to a bibliography of the geology of Brazil. The list was 

 necessarily imperfect ; omitting the manuscripts and papers upon mineral 

 waters, it contained only one hundred and twelve titles. A bibliography 

 of the Mesozoic invertebrate paleontology of South America is given on 

 pages 3 to 6 of Dr C. A. White's Contribuigoes a Paleontologia do Brazil, 

 published at Eio de Janeiro in 1887. That list contains twenty-four 

 titles. 



*An incomplete edition of this bibliography was published in the Archivos do Museu 

 Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, vol. XII, in 1903. The proofs, however, were not seen by 

 the author and many serious errors were overlooked by tbe printers. Tbe great num- 

 ber of titles added, the corrections made, and the growing interest in the geology of 

 Brazil have encouraged the Geological Society of America to publish the present list. 



Dr M. A. R. Lisboa, one of the ablest of the younger Brazilian geologists, has now 

 begun the publication of an annual annotated bibliography of the geology of Brazil in 

 the Annaes da Escola de Minus. The author is glad to have future work on the subject 

 in his able hands. 



I— Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 20, 1908 (]) 



