PUBLICATIONS OF UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
[Bulletin No. 263.] 
The serial publications of the United States Geological Survey consist of (1) Annual 
Reports, (2) Monographs, (3) Professional Papers, (4) Bulletins, (5) . Mineral 
Resources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas of 
United States — folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of the United 
States — folios thereof. The classes numbered 2, 7, and 8 are sold at cost, of publica- 
tion; the others are distributed free. A circular giving complete lists may be had on 
application. 
Mostof the above publications may be obtained or consulted in the following ways: 
1. A limited number are delivered to the Director of the Survey, from whom they 
may be obtained, free of charge (except classes 2, 7, and 8), on application. 
2. Every member of Congress is allotted a certain number, from whom they may 
be obtained, free of charge, on application. 
3. Other copies are deposited with the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, 
D. C, from whom they may be had at practically cost. 
4. Copies of all Government publications are furnished to the principal public 
libraries in the large cities throughout the United States, where they may be con- 
sulted by those interested. 
The Professional Papers, Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of 
subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified 
in the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology; C, System- 
atic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and 
physics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous; H, Forestry; I, Irrigation; J, Water stor- 
age; K, Pumping water; L, Quality of water; M, General hydrographic investiga- 
tions; N, Water power; O, Underground waters; P, Hydrographic progress reports. 
This bulletin is the fifty-fifth in Series A, the complete list of which follows. 
(PP=Professional Paper; B = Bulletin; WS = Water-Supply Paper.) 
SERIES A, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY. 
B 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.) 
B 46. Nature and origin of deposits of phosphate of lime, by R. A. F. Penrose, jr., with introduction 
by N. S. Shaler. 1888. 143 pp. (Out of stock.) 
B 65. Stratigraphy of the bituminous coal field of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by I. <'. 
White. 1891. 212 pp., 11 pis. (Out of stock.) 
B 111. Geology of Big Stone Gap coal field of Virginia and Kentucky, by M. R. Campbell. 1893. 106 
pp., 6 pis. 
B 132. The disseminated lead ores of southeastern Missouri, by Arthur Winslow. 1896. 31 pp. 
B 138. Artesian-well prospects in Atlantic Coastal Plain region, by N. H. Darton. 1896. 228 pp., 19 
pis. (Out of stock.) 
B 139. Geology of Castle Mountain mining district, Montana, by W. II. Weed and L. V. Pirsson. 1896. 
164 pp., 17 pis. 
B 143. Bibliography of clays and the ceramic arts, by J. C. Branner. 1896. 1 1 1 pp. 
B 161. Reconnaissance on the Rio Grande coal fields of 1'exas, by T. W. Vaughan, including a report 
on igneous rocks from the San Carlos coal field, by E. C. E. Lord. L900. 100 pp., 11 pis. 
B 178. El Paso tin deposits, by W. H. Weed. 1901. 15 pp., 1 pi. 
B 180. Occurrence and distribution of corundum in United States, by J. II. Pratt. 1901. 98 pp., 14 pis. 
B 182. A report on the economic geology of the Silverton quadrangle, Colorado, by F. I.. Ransome. 
1901. 266 pp., 16 pis. 
B 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. L901. 64 pp., 10 pis. 
(Out of stock.) 
B 193. The geological relations and distribution of platinum and associated metals, by . I. F. Kemp 
1902. 95 pp., 6 pis. (Out of stock.) 
B 198. The Berea grit oil sand in the Cadiz quadrangle, Ohio, by W. T. Oris wold. 1902. 43 p|>.. 1 pi. 
PP1. 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. 
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