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FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY—THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
a 
This is divided into two parts; the first including works relating 
to peat of other states or peat in general, and the second, those 
relating to the geography or peat resources of Florida. 
Much more extensive bibliographies than this, which will be 
useful to any one who wishes to go into the subject deeply, can 
be found in several of the works named in the first list. Most of 
the older books cited by other writers on peat have not been acces¬ 
sible to me, however, and this list does not aim to be complete, but 
merely to give references to a few of the more important recent 
papers on the subject. Those relating exclusively to peat machinery 
or methods of utilization are not mentioned. 
The second list includes titles of nearly everything that has been 
published (outside of newspapers and other ephemeral publications) 
on Florida peat, as ^yell as several important works of a geograph¬ 
ical nature which have been consulted in preparing the descrip¬ 
tions of the natural divisions of the state. (A few of the papers 
in the first list also contain incidental references to Florida.) Many 
other more or less geographical titles can be found in the biblio¬ 
graphy of Florida geology by Dr. Sellards, in the first annual 
report of this Survey. 
For the benefit of readers who may not be familiar with 
modern methods of bibliographic citation a brief explanation of the 
system used will not be out of place. In the case of magazine arti¬ 
cles, the title is followed by the name of the magazine (often 
abbreviated), the volume number—or year for annual publications 
with no separate volume number—in Arabic; a colon ; the first and 
last pages of the article, connected by a short dash or hyphen (even 
if the article occupies only two pages) ; the numbers of the illustra¬ 
tions, if any (pi. meaning plates and f. figures in the text) ; and 
finally the date (giving the real date when known, which is often 
different from the alleged date, especially in'State and government- 
publications and in magazines). In a few cases (Science for ex¬ 
ample) where a magazine has changed hands and taken a new start, 
with new volume numbers, a series number has to be used, and this 
is placed before the volume number, in Roman figures, followed by a 
period.* This is the only use made of Roman numerals in this 
*The volumes of the American Journal of Science are divided into series of 
50 each, but as this division is purely arbitrary, and the volumes are numbered 
from the beginning as well as in serie's, there seems to be no sufficient reason 
for citing the series numbers, as nearly everybody has been doing for the last 
60 years or so. 
