PUBLICATIONS OF UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 
[Bulletin No. 243.] 
The serial publications of the United States Geological Survey consist of (1) 
nnual Reports, (2) Monograph's, (3) Professional Papers, (4) Bulletins, (5) 
lineral Resources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas 
United States — folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of United 
tates — folios thereof. The classes numbered 2, 7, and 8 are sold at cost of publiea- 
on; the others are distributed free. A circular giving complete lists may be had 
n application. 
The Professional Papers, Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of 
ibjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified 
ito the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology; C, Syste- 
latic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and 
hysics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous; H, Forestry; I, Irrigation; J, Water 
;orage; K, Pumping water; L, Quality of water; M, General hydrographic investi- 
tions; N, Water power; O, Underground waters; P, Hydrographic progress reports, 
his paper is the thirty-ninth in Series A and the fiftieth in Series B, the com- 
lete lists of which follow. (PP=Professional Paper, B=Bulletin, \VS=Water- 
ipply Paper. ) 
SERIES A, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 
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.) 
40. Nature and origin of deposits of phosphate of lime, by R. A. F. Penrose, jr., with introduction 
by X. S. Shaler. 1888. 143 pp. (Out of stock.) 
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.) 
111. Geology of Big Stone Gap coal field of Virginia and Kentucky, by M. R. Campbell. 1893. 106 
pp., 6 pis. 
132. The disseminated lead ores of southeastern Missouri, by Arthur Winslow. 1896. 31 pp. 
138. Artesian-well prospects in Atlantic Coastal Plain region, by N. H. Darton. 1896. 228 pp., 19 
pis. (Out of stock.) 
139. Geology of Castle Mountain mining district, Montana, by W. H. Weed and L. V. Pirsson. 1896. 
164 pp., 17 pis. 
143. Bibliography of clays and the ceramic arts, by J. C. Branner. 1896. 114 pp. 
164. Reconnaissance of 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. 
178. El Paso tin deposits, by W. H. Weed. 1901. 15 pp., 1 pi. 
180. Occurrence and distribution of corundumin United States, by J. H. Pratt. 1901. 98pp., 14 pis. 
182. A report on the economic geology of the Silverton quadrangle, Colorado, by F. L. Ransome. 
1901. 266 pp., 16 pis. 
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.) 
193. The geological relations and distribution of platinum and associated metals, by J. F. Kemp. 
1902. 95 pp., 6 pis. (Out of stock.) 
198. The Berea grit oil sand in the Cadiz quadrangle, Ohio, by W. T. Griswold. 1902. 43 pp., 1 pi. 
P 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. 
200. Reconnaissance of the borax deposits of Death Valley and Mohave Desert, by M. R. Campbell. 
1902. 23 pp., 1 pi. 
202. Tests for gold and silver in shales from western Kansas, by Waldemar Lindgren. 1902. 21 pp. 
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