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

Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891
Norwood, J. G. (Joseph Granville), 1807-1895
Parry, C. C. (Charles Christopher), 1823-1890
Pratten, Henry.
Shumard, B. F. 1820-1869
Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886
United States. General Land Office.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & co, 1852

Notes

Final report addressed to the commissioner of the U.S. General land office.

Atlas has title: Illustrations to the geological report of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota ...

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.

Contents: Geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, by D.D. Owen.--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.

Subjects

Birds , Botany , Geology , Minnesota , Mississippi River Valley , Paleontology , Wisconsin

Call Number

QE73 .O34

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.58539
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/05031669
OCLC: 1615311