Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota : and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory : made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department / by David Dale Owen
xxviii, [3], 42-638 p. : ill. ; 32 cm. + 1 atlas ([28] leaves, [47] leaves of plates (18 folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm.)
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Mississippi River Valley
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Date:
1852
Notes:
Final report addressed to the Commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office.
Title vignette.
"Philadelphia: C. Sherman, printer"--Verso of t.p.
Some of the plates in atlas accompanied by leaves of descriptive letterpress.
Some of the plates are hand-colored.
Includes index.
Also available online.
SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088001907757, 39088006480115) has the bookplates of Jonathan Dwight Jr. and Smithsonian Institution Libraries, gift of Marcia Brady Tucker. With the pencilled Tucker collational notes.
SCNHRB c. 1 inscribed in pencil on 1st front free endpaper of text and atlas: H.B. Dawson, esq.
SCNHRB c. 1 inscribed in ink on back free endpaper of text v. and front free endpaper of atlas: Chas. R. Mullen, Maller or Muller (?).
SCNHRB c. 1 bound in original purple publisher's cloth binding, elaborate blind-embossed decoratons, title in gilt on spine (on front cover of atlas); housed in archival portfolio boxes.
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088005597083, 39088005596960) has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.
SCNHRB c. 2 text v. bound in original purple publisher's cloth binding, elaborate blind-embossed decorations, title in gilt on spine; atlas v. bound in original green publisher's cloth binding, title in gilt on front cover.
Elecresource
Contents:
Geological report of a survey of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, made during the years 1847, '48, '49 and '50 / by J.G. Norwood --Geological report of that portion of Wisconsin bordering on the south shore of Lake Superior, surveyed in the year 1849 / by Charles Whittlesey -- Geological report of local, detailed observations in the valleys of the Minnesota, Mississippi, and Wisconsin rivers, made in the years 1848 and 1849 / by B.F. Shumard -- Description of the remains of extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, from Nebraska Territory / by Joseph Leidy -- Appendix: I. Description of new and imperfectly known genera and species of organic remains / by D.D. Owen -- II. Descriptions of one new genus and twenty-two new species of Crinoidea, from the subcarboniferous limestone of Iowa / by D.D. Owen and B.F. Shumard -- III. Summary of the distribution of orders, genera, and species in the Northwest --IV. Additional chemical examinations / by D.D. Owen -- V. Systematic catalogue of plants of Wisconsin and Minnesota / by C.C. Parry -- VI. Systematic catalogue of birds observed in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota / by Henry Pratten
