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The Grotto Geyser of the Yellowstone National Park

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Topographical atlas sheets

The following topographical atlas sheets, accompanying Appendix J.J. of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army-being Annual Report upon U. S. Geographical Surveys-have been published during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and are a portion of the series projected to embrace the territory of the United States lying west of the 100th meridian.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler

Volume II: Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1876

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Volume IX: A report of the invertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils of the upper Missouri country

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Fielding Bradford Meek

Volume X: A monograph of the geometrid moths of Phalaenidae of the United States

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alpheus Spring Packard

Annual report upon explorations and surveys in the Department of the Platte: Being Appendix QQ of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1875

There are at nearly all the headquarters of the tour military divisions and the nine military departments, officers of engineers, whose chief duty it is to collect geographical and other information; and these officers do, by means of their own explorations and surveys, and by collecting the notes, sketches, and maps made by the officers and soldiers belonging to the western posts, in their scouts
Authors
W.S. Stanton

Annual Report upon the geographical explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in California, Nevada, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana: Being Appendix LL of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers f

I have the honor to submit the following report upon geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. The States and Territories of California, Nevada, Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana had been entered at the close of the season of 1874, during the several years' operations of the survey. Of the political divisions
Authors
George Montague Wheeler

Annual report upon the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel from the Sierra Nevada to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains: Being Appendix KK of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for 1875

I have the honor herewith to present a brief annual report of the operations of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel, under my charge, for the year ending June 30, 1875, and to state in explanation of its delay that, since the date when it should properly have been rendered, I have been severely ill, and confined to my bed more than half of the time. The entire year bas been spent i
Authors
Clarence King

Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: Volume I, 1874 and 1875: No. 1, second series

No abstract available.
Authors
E.D. Cope, Elliott Coues, W. H. Jackson, F.B. Meek

Catalogue of the photographs of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories

No abstract available.
Authors
William Henry Jackson, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the years 1869 to 1875, inclusive: Miscellaneous publications - No. 5

Miscellaneous Publications of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories is comprised of No. 1-12, some with multiple editions.  A 1st and 2nd edition of No. 5 were published in 1874 and 1875 respectively.  Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden is the United States geologist in charge of this series.  List of publications, with contents of each, and author and subject index may b
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, William Henry Jackson

Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries: Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

In the summer of 1867, with a small party of naturalists, students, and amateurs like myself, I visited the mountain region of Colorado Territory. While in Middle Park, I explored a little cañon, through which the Grand River runs, immediately below the well-known watering-place, "Middle Park Hot Springs." Later in the fall I passed through Cedar Cañon, the gorge by which the Grand leaves the park
Authors
John Wesley Powell