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xxxviii, [39]-638 p., 1 l. illus. and atlas of plates, maps and sections (partly fold.) 32 cm. |
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Making of America.
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Final report addressed to the commissioner of the U.S. General land office. |
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Atlas has title: Illustrations to the geological report of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota ... |
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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 |
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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. |
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 2000. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. [Making of America] This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of Making of America IV: the American voice, 1850-1877. |
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Mode of access: Internet. |
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Geology -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Electronic information resources.
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Paleontology -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Botany -- Wisconsin.
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Botany -- Minnesota.
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Birds -- Wisconsin.
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Birds -- Minnesota.
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Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891.
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Norwood, Joseph Granville, 1807-1895.
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Parry, Charles Christopher, 1823-1890.
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Pratten, Henry.
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Shumard, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1820-1869.
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Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886.
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United States. General Land Office.
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University of Michigan. Library.
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Making of America. URL: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ |
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