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Author Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860.

Title Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota; [electronic resource] and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury department. By David Dale Owen, United States geologist.

Imprint Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1852.

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 Axe Making of America E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxxviii, [39]-638 p., 1 l. illus. and atlas of plates, maps and sections (partly fold.) 32 cm.
Series Making of America.
Note 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.
Reproduction 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.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Geology -- Mississippi River Valley.
Electronic information resources.
Paleontology -- Mississippi River Valley.
Botany -- Wisconsin.
Botany -- Minnesota.
Birds -- Wisconsin.
Birds -- Minnesota.
Added Author Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891.
Norwood, Joseph Granville, 1807-1895.
Parry, Charles Christopher, 1823-1890.
Pratten, Henry.
Shumard, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1820-1869.
Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886.
United States. General Land Office.
University of Michigan. Library.
In: Making of America. URL: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

 
    
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