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Show CLASSIFICATION OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [ Water- Supply Paper No. 157.] The serial publications of the United States Geological Survey consist of ( 1) Annual Reports, ( 2) Monographs, ( 3) Professional Papers, ( 4) Bulletins, ( 5) Mineral Resources, ( 6) Water- Supply and Irrigation Papers, ( 7) Topographic Atlas of United States- folios and separate sheets thereof, ( 8) Geologic Atlas of the United States- folios thereof. The classes numbered 2, 7, and 8 are sold at cost of publication; the others are distributed free. A circular giving complete lists may be had on application. Most of the above publications may be obtained or consulted in the following ways: 1. A limited number are delivered to the Director of the Survey, from whom they may be obtained, free of charge ( except classes 2, 7, and 8), on application. 2. A certain number are delivered to Senators and Representatives in Congress, for distribution. 3. Other copies are deposited with the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. G, from whom they may be had at prices slightly above cost. 4. Copies of all Government publications are furnished to the principal public libraries in the large cities throughout the United States, where they may be consulted by those interested. The Professional Papers, Bulletins, and Water- Supply Papers treat of a variety of subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified into the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology; C, Systematic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and physics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous; H, Forestry; I, Irrigation; J, Water storage; K, Pumping water; L, Quality of water; M, General hydrographic investigations; N. Water power; O, Underground waters; P, Hydrographic progress reports. This paper is the eighty- sixth in Series B, and the fifty- third in Series O, the compete lists of which follow ( PP= Professional Paper; B= Bulletin; WS= Water- Supply Paper) : SERIES B, DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY. B 23. Observations on the junction between the Eastern sandstone and the Keweenaw series on Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior, by R. D. Irving and T. C. Chamberlin. 1885. 124 pp., 17 pis. ( Out of stock.) B 33. Notes on geology of northern California, by J. S. Diller. 1886. 23 pp. ( Out of stock.) B 39. The upper beaches and deltas of Glacial Lake Agassiz, by Warren Upham. .1887. 84 pp., 1 pi. ( Out of stock.) B 40. Changes in river courses in Washington Territory due to glaciation, by Bailey Willis. 1887. 10 pp., 4 pis. ( Out of stock.) B 45. The present condition of knowledge of the geology of Texas, by R. T. Hill. 1887. 94 pp. ( Out . of stock.) B 53. The geology of Nantucket, by N. S. Shaler. 1889. 55 pp., 10 pis. ( Out of stock.) B 57. A geological reconnaissance in southwestern Kansas, by Robert Hay. 1890. 49 pp., 2 pis. ( Out of stock.) B 58. The glacial boundary in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, by G. F. Wright, with introduction by T. C. Chamberlin. 1890. 112 pp., 8 pis. ( Out of stock.) |