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Contributions to the knowledge of the older Mesozoic flora of ...

William Morris Fontaine

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON, 1885.

The geographic and geologic surveys of the public domain of the United States, heretofore conducted under the charge of Capt. G. SC. Wheeler, Maj. J. W Powell, Clarence King, and Br F. V. Hayden, have been discontinued by an act of Congress, which at the same time created the "United States Geological Survey," of which J. W. Powell is the present director.

In view of this fact it is respectfully requested that all exchanges, and gifts of books, charts, etc., intended for the survey conducted by the United States Government, should be sent to us through the agents of the Smithsonian Institution in London, Leipsic, or Paris, or through the governmental bureaus of international exchange in Italy and Holland.

In order to avoid mistakes or confusion, such parcels should be addressed to no individual, as heretofore has happened, but simply

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UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY,

WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 1, 1885,

CIRCULAR CONCERNING PUBLICATIONS.

The publications of the United States Geological Survey are issued in accordance with the statute, approved March 3, 1879, which declares that

"The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication; and all literary and cartographic materials received in exchange shall be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization: And the money resulting from the sale of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States."

On July 7, 1882, the following joint resolution, referring to all Government publications, was passed by Congress:

That whenever any document or report shall be ordered printed by Congress, there shall be printed, in addition to the number in each case stated, the "usual number" [1,900] of copies for binding and distribution among those entitled to receive them.

Under these general laws it will be seen that none of the survey publications are furnished to it for gratuitous distribution. The 3,000 copies of the annual report are distributed through the document. rooms of Congress. The 1,900 copies of each of the publications are distributed to the officers of the legislative and executive departments and to stated depositories throughout the United States.

Except, therefore, in those cases where an extra number of any publication is supplied to this office by special resolution of Congress, as has been done in the case of the second, third, fourth, and fifth annual reports, or where a number has been ordered for its use by the Secretary of the Interior, as in the case of Mineral Resources, and Dictionary of Altitudes, the Survey has no copies of any of its publications for gratuitous distribution. The gratuitous edition of the Mineral Resources is entirely exhausted.

ANNUAL REPORTS.

Of the Annual Reports there have been already published:

I. First Annual Report to the Hon. Carl Schurz, by Clarence King. 1880. 8°. 79 pp. 1 map.—A preliminary report describing plan of organization and publications.

II. Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey for 1880-'81, by J. W. Powell. 1882. 8°. lv, 588 pp. 61 pl. 1 map.

III. Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1881-'82, by J. W. Powell. 1883. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pl. and maps.

IV. Fourth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 1882-'83, by J. W. Powell. 1884. 8°. xii, 473 pp. 85 pl. and maps.

The edition of the Fourth Annual for the use of the Survey has not yet been delivered. The Fifth Annual is in press.

Of the Monographs, Nos. II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII are now published, viz:

II. Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt., U. S. A. 1882. 4°. 264 pp. 42 pl. and atlas of 26 double sheets folio. Price $10.12.

III. Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°. xv, 422 pp. 7 pl. and atlas of 21 sheets folio. Price $11.

IV. Comstock Mining and Miners, by Eliot Lord. 1883. 4°. xiv, 451 pp. 3 pl. Price $1.50. V. Copper-bearing Rocks of Lake Superior, by Roland D. Irving. 1883. 4°. xvi, 464 pp. pl. Price $1.85.

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VI. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by Wm. M. Fontaine. 1883. 4°. xi, 144 pp. 541. 54 pl. Price $1.05.

VII. Silver-lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, by Joseph S. Curtis. 1884. 4°. xiii, 200 pp. 16 pl. Price $1.20.

The following are in press, viz:

4°. xiii, 285 pp.

VIII. Paleontology of the Eureka District, by Charles D. Walcott. 1884. 4°. 24 1. 24 pl.

IX. Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, by Robert P. Whitfield. 1884. 4°. ix, 338 pp. 35 pl.

X. Dinocerata. A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals by Othniel Charles Marsh. 1884. 4°. pl.

PP.

The following are in preparation, viz:

I. The Precious Metals, by Clarence King.

Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, with atlas, by S. F. Emmons.

Geology of the Eureka Mining District, Nevada, with atlas, by Arnold Hague.

Lake Bonneville, by G. K. Gilbert.

Sauropoda, by Prof. O. C. Marsh.

Stegosauria, by Prof. O. C. Marsh.

BULLETINS.

The Bulletins of the Survey will contain such papers relating to the general purpose of its work as do not properly come under the heads of ANNUAL REPORTS or MONOGRAPHS.

Each of these Bulletins will contain but one paper, and be complete in itself. They will, however, be numbered in a continuous series, and will in time be united into volumes of convenient size. To facilitate this, each Bulletin will have two paginations, one proper to itself, and one which belongs to it as part of the volume.

Of this series of Bulletins Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are already published.

1. On Hypersthene-Andesite and on Triclinic Pyroxene in Augitic Rocks, by Whitman Cross, with a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42 pp. 2 pl. Price 10

cents.

2. Gold and Silver Conversion Tables, giving the coining value of Troy ounces of fine metal, &c., by Albert Williams, jr. 1883. 8°. ii, 8 pp. Price 5 cents.

3. On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian along the meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, N. Y., to Bradford County, Pa., by Henry S. Williams. 1884. 8°. 36 pp. Price 5 cents. 4. On Mesozoic Fossils, by Charles A. White. 1884. 8°. 5. A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, compiled by Henry Gannett. 1884. 8°. 325 pp.

8°.

36 pp.

36 pp.

9 pl.

Price 5 cents.

Price 20 cents.

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