# Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Report of Progress/PPP

Geological Reports of Pennsylvania, 1874—1884. :
| P.—Coal Flora. N.—Levels. | B, B², M, M², M³.—Chemical Analyses. O, O².—Catalogue of Specimens. |
SECOND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA. REPORT OF PROGRESS.
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CERATIOCARIDÆ FROM THE UPPER DEVONIAN MEASURES IN WARREN COUNTY,
BY Chas. E. Beecher.
With 2 plates.
EURYPTERIDÆ FROM THE LOWER PRODUCTIVE COAL MEASURES IN BEAVER COUNTY, AND THE
LOWER CARBONIFEROUS, PITHOLE SHALE, IN VENANGO COUNTY,
BY James Hall.
With 6 plates.
HARRISBURG: PUBLISHED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE SECOND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 1884.
Entered, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the year 1884, according to acts of Congress,
By WILLIAM A. INGHAM, Secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Geological Survey, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington, D. C.
Electrotyped and printed by LANE S. HART, State Printer, Harrisburg, Pa.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. :
| His Excellency, ROBERT E. PATTISON, Governor, and ex-officio President of the Board, Harrisburg ||
| Ario Pardee, | Hazleton. |
| William A. Ingham, | Philadelphia. |
| Henry S. Eckert, | Reading. |
| Henry McCormick, | Harrisburg. |
| James Macfarlane, | Towanda. |
| Charles A. Miner, | Wilkes-Barre. |
| Joseph Willcox, | Media. |
| Hon. Daniel J. Morrell, | Johnstown. |
| Louis W. Hall, | Harrisburg. |
| Samuel Q. Brown, | Pleasantville. |
| SECRETARY OF THE BOARD. ||
| William A. Ingham, | Philadelphia. |
| STATE GEOLOGIST. ||
| Peter Lesley, | Philadelphia. |
ASSISTANTS IN 1883.
Professor I. C. White, geologist, in Huntingdon county; address Morgantown, W. V.
Mr. E. V. D'Invilliers, geologist, in Centre county; 711 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Mr. A. E. Lehman, geologist, in Cumberland and York counties; 711 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Dr. H. Martyn Chance, geologist, in Clearfield county; 2423 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia.
Professor E. W. Claypole, geologist, in Perry and Juniata counties; address in future, Akron, O.
Mr. J. Sutton Wall, M. E., Monongahela city, Pa.
Mr. A. S. McCreath, chemist; 223 Market street, Harrisburg.
Mr. Leo Lesquereux, fossil botanist; Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. E. B. Harden, topographer, in charge of illustrations for reports, and general correspondence at head-quarters; 905 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Anthracite Survey.
Mr. Chas. a. Ashburner, geologist, in charge of the Survey of the Anthracite coal fields; headquarters, address 907 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Mr. Charles B. Scott, assistant and secretary, Philadelphia office.
Mr. O. B. Harden, topographer and artist, Philadelphia office.
Mr. Frank A. Hill, assistant geologist, in the Northern Coal Field; Scranton, Pa.
Mr. John C. Branner, topographer, in the Northern Coal Field; Scranton, Pa.
Mr. T. J. Williams, assistant, in the Northern Coal Field; Scranton, Pa.
Mr. A. D. W. Smith, aid, in the Northern Coal Field; Scranton Pa.
Mr. Arthur Winslow, assistant geologist, in the Eastern Middle Coal Field; Philadelphia office.
Mr. William Griffith, assistant, in the Eastern Middle Coal Field; Pittston, Pa.
Mr. Bard Wells, assistant geologist, in the Western Middle Coal Field; Pottsville, Pa.
Mr. H. N. Sims, assistant, in the Western Middle Coal Field; Pottsville, Pa.
Mr. Baird Halberstadt, aid, in Western Middle Coal Field; Pottsville, Pa.
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
To His Excellency Governor Robert E. Pattison, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania:
Sir: I have the honor to present two reports on certain fossil forms found in Warren, Venango, and Beaver counties, one by Mr. Charles E. Beecher, formerly of Warren, now of Albany, N. Y., and the other by our distinguished American palæontologist, Prof. James Hall, of Albany, who, when other opportunities failed, kindly volunteered to study and describe the remarkable crustacean animals obtained by the Hon. I. F. Mansfield, in past years, from his coal mine workings at Cannelton.
Mr. Beecher's figures, drawn by himself, were lithographed by Breuker & Kessler, of Philadelphia.
Mr. Mansfield's specimens, exquisitely drawn by Mr. George B. Simpson, have been reproduced in fac simile by a heliotype process in Boston.
The Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania was planned and has been prosecuted with a primary view to the material interests of the Commonwealth, the practical study of the rocks, their structure and mineral contents, and to as perfect a description of them as a diligent survey of facts could afford, with maps and sections and occasional photographic views for illustration; and I am happy to know that this conception of the proper nature of a State Survey has been approved by the Board of Commissioners, without reserve; and has been accepted with satisfaction also by intelligent citizens of the State, whether interested in the acquisition of such knowledge by possessing lands, or desirous of acquiring it as preparatory to exploring or mining lands.
​But the education of a people cannot be confined within business limits. The learning of mere facts cannot advance the discipline of minds beyond a certain point. A truly intelligent people wishes to know the causes of facts, the reason of things, their relationships, their history, the logical conclusions of every kind which can be drawn from them by investigation. What is called modern science is the endeavor to satisfy this craving of human intelligence for something more and something nobler than mere facts,—the instinctive conviction of our age that education must be not merely accurate but also wide; that it is shameful to be satisfied with mere details; that apparently useless truth is in its very nature delightful and elevating, and is sure to become, sooner or later, in these hands or in those, in one direction or another, and always unexpectedly, useful.
Therefore, while the plan of the Survey was practical, its geologists have always kept in view whatever could help to effect a thorough knowledge of the geology of the State; especially those vegetable and animal forms which are impressed upon or imbedded within the rock formations which underlie the soil.
But the publication of this branch of the geology of Pennsylvania has been delayed for various reasons—chiefly because the study and delineation of fossils demand the entire time and exclusive devotion of those who undertake it, and cannot be successfully carried on by a geologist who is commissioned to report on a large territory—to map an entire county—in one field season.
Secondly: The collection of fossils must go first,—their study and delineation is a tedious subsequent performance.
Thirdly: The world of fossils has become so vast and the number of geologists who devote themselves to its investigation is so limited, that it has become necessary to divide it up into many parts. The collections of deep sea soundings made by the British ship Challenger have been distributed for study to botanists and zoologists in every country in Europe, and even in America. So, in the study of fossil forms, Carboniferous plants are sent to one expert, ​Cretaceous and Tertiary plants to another, Devonian plants to a third. Common forms of shells found in great numbers in some of our strata are recognized by every geologist; but whenever a new or comparatively rare form is discovered the specimen is sent to some palaeontologist of acknowledged authority at whatever distance he may be from the place where the discovery is made; nor would any geologist attempt to describe it without reference to museum collections and plates in published memoirs. And the same is true of corals, of fish, of mammals. Mr. Mansfield has had to wait more than seven years to get his Eurypterids properly described and figured as they are in this report.
That the Survey has not been unmindful of its duty in regard to palæontology is shown by the publication of the admirable report on the Coal Flora of Pennsylvania and the United States by Mr. Lesquereux, who has been occupied ten years in its preparation and publication; and by the report on the Permian plants of Greene county and West Virginia, by Prof. Wm. M. Fontaine and Prof. I. C. White. Prof. E. W. Claypole's report on Perry and Juniata counties and the fossils of Middle Pennsylvania, the fruit of three years' field and office work, is now ready to go to press. Prof. Angelo Heilprin, of Philadelphia, has volunteered a report on the Permian shells of Wilkes-Barre. And in the various reports of Prof. Stevenson and Prof. White will be found copious notes of the distribution of fossil forms through the column of rocks in their respective districts.
It must not be supposed, however, that the fossils of Pennsylvania have been adequately studied. In fact, their systematic study has but been begun. The patient field work which Prof. Claypole has expended upon the two counties of Perry and Juniata—or, rather, on parts of these two counties—must be bestowed on the other sixty-five counties of the Slate before it can be said that this part of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania has been accomplished. A good beginning has certainly been made, but it ​will depend upon the intelligent interest of the citizens of the State whether or not the good beginning shall be prosecuted to a good end.
If the question of utility be raised; if it be asked—as it undoubtedly will be by the common run of business men—What is the use of such a report as the one I have now the honor to transmit to you? Why should the State expend the hard-earned money of its citizens in publishing drawings of strange creatures buried in the mud of ancient peatbogs or in the sands of the sea bottom of ages long ago—creatures unlike any which now live, creatures belonging to an order of the world long since changed and done away—I have no definite answer to make to such a question. In a business sense it is of no use whatever, if one regards merely the facts drawn on the page plate. But even the merest business man will comprehend its utility, if he be interested in coal mines and can assure himself that the recognition of certain forms in one particular coal bed is likely to aid him in identifying that particular coal bed in other localities. The study of fossil shells found in formations beneath the coal measures is a really practical guide to certain limestone beds, and sometimes fixes in a very practical manner the order of rocks containing iron ore deposits, especially where downthrow faults have disturbed or concealed that order. If the location of mineral beds has anything to do with the order of formations, which no intelligent person questions, and if the study of fossils is a help in the study of the order of formations, which all geologists know to be true, then the Government is justified in ordering a complete survey of the fossils of the State, and the publication of their forms for the instruction of the people.
But apart from all money considerations, every plate of these extinct forms, so strange to living eyes, is a lesson for each and every man, enlarging the range of human education, and disciplining the intellect to the love and comprehension of the laws and forces of nature, so benificent to mankind.
J. P. Lesley.
THE PUBLICATIONS
OF THE
SECOND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
REPORTS FOR 1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882 and 1883-1884.
Reports have been issued by the Board of Commissioners, and the prices thereof fixed in accordance with the law authorizing their publication, as follows:
ANTHRACITE COAL FIELDS
A. Special Report to the Legislature upon the Causes, Kinds, and amount of Waste in Mining Anthracite.By Franklin Platt, Assisstant Geologist, with a chapter on the Methods of Mining. By John Price Wetherill, Mining Engineer. Illustrated by 35 figures of mining operations, a Plan of the Hammond Coal Breaker on the Girad Easte, and a Specimen Sheet, scale 800 feet to 1 inch,19600ths of nature, illustrating the Proposed Plan of Mapping the Anthracite Fields. By Chas A. Ashburner, Assistant Geologist, 1881 8 vo., pp. 134. Price,$1 10; postage $0 12.
AC. Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances used in the Anthracite Coal fields. By H.M Chance: with an atlAs of 25 plates; 54 plates and 60 illustrations in the text. Price,$1 40: postage,$0 25.
AC. Atlas Coal Mining plates I to XXV. By H.M. Chance. Price, $1 40; postage $0 12.
AA.' First Report of Progress in the Anthracite Region, with a description of the Geology of the Panther Creek Basin, or Eastern End of the Southern Field. by Chas. A. Ashburner, Geologist in Charge; with an atlas of 13 sheets of maps and sections; 6 pages plates, and 2 folded plates in the Report. Appendix A: Determination of the latitude and longitude of Wilkes Barre and Pottsville. By Prof. C. L. Doolittle. Appendix B: Theory of Stadia Measurements, with tables. By Arthur Winslow, assistant.1883, 8 vo., pp. xlvii and 407. Price $0 58; postage $0 18.
AA Atlas Southern Anthracite Field, Volume I, Panther Creek to accompany First Report of Progress AA ,1882. Contains 13 Sheets, as follows: 3 mine sheets, 3 cross section sheets, 3 columnar section sheets, 1 topographical sheet, and 1 coal bed area sheet, all relating to Panther Creek Basin in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties; also 1 miscellaneous sheet "General Preliminary Map, Anthracite Coal Fields," and 1 miscellaneous sheet containing chart, showing total annual production of Anthracite since 1829. Chas. A. Ashburner, Geologist in Charge and A.W. Sheafer and Frank A. Hill, Assistant Geologists. Price $1 50; postage $0 12.
AA. Atlas Western Middle Anthracite Field, Part 1,1884. Contains 11 sheets, as follows: 4 mine sheets between Delano and Locust Dale, 3topographical sheets between quakake Junctions and Mount Carmel, and ​cross-section sheets, all relating to the Mahanoy-Shamokin Basin in Schuylkill, Columbia, an d Northumberland counties. In press. Chas A. Ashburner. Geologist in Charge, and A. W. Shuafur :Incl Bard Wells, Assistant Geologists Price, S ; postage, S .
AA. Atlas Northen Field, Part I, 1884. Contains 6 mine sheets between Wilkes Barre and Nanticoke, 3 cross-section sheets and — columnar section sheets, all relating to the Wyoming Basin in Luzerne county. In press Chas. A. Ashburner, Geologist in Charge, and Frank A. Hill, Assistant Geologist. Price, S ; postage, S .
G2 Part II. Loyalstock Coal Basin, Sullivan County. By Franklin Platt. (See Reports Central Pennsylvania.)
BITUMINOUS COAL FIELD AND SUBROUNDING AREAS.
F. Part II. East Broad Top District, Huntingdon County. By Chas.A. Ashburner (See Reports Central Pennsylvania.)
G. Report of the Progress in Bradford and Tioga Counties—1874-8. I.Limits of the Catskill and Chemung Formation. By Andrew Sherwood II. Description of the Barclay, Blossburg, Fall Brook, Arnot, Antrim and Gaines Coal Fields, and at the Forks of Pine Creek in Potter County. By Franklin Platt. III. On the Coking of Bituminous Coal. By John Fulton. Illustrated with 2 colored Geological county maps, 3 page plates, and 35 cuts. 8 vo., pp. 271. Price, $1 00; postage, $0 12.
G2. Part II. Coal Basins, Sullivan and Lycoming Counties. By Franklin Platt. (See Reports Central Pennsylvania.)
G3. Report of Progress in 1876-9. The Geology of POTTER COUNTY, by ,Andrew Sherwood. Report on the Coal Fields, by Franklin Platt, with a colored geological map of the county, two folded plates, and two page plates of sections. S vo., pp. 120. Price, $0 53; postage, $0 08.
G4. Report of Progress Part I. Geology of Clinton County. Part II. A special study of the Carboniferous and Devonian Strata along the West branch of Susquehanna River. By H. Martyn Chance. Included in this report is a description of the Renovo Coal Basin, by Chas. A. Ashburner, and notes on the Tangascootack Coal Basin in Centre and Clinton Counties, by Franklin Platt. Price, Sl 05; postage, $0 12.
H. Report of Progress in the Clearfield and Jefferson District of the Bituminos Coal Fieldsof Western Pennsylvania,—1874. By Franklin Platt. 8 vo., pp. 296, illustrated by 139 cuts, 8 maps, and 2 sections. Price in paper, $l 50; postage, £0 13.
H2. Report of Progress in the Cambria and Somerset District of the Bituminous Coal Fields of Western Pennsylvania—1876. By F. and W. G. Platt. Pp. 191, illustrated with 84 wood-cuts, and 6 maps and sections. Part II. Somerset. Price. $1 00: postage, $0 18.
H3.Report of Progress in the Cambria and Somerset District of the Bituminous Coal Fields of Western Pennsylvania—1876 By F. and W.G Platt PP. 348, illustrated by 110 wood-cuts and 6 maps and sections. Part II. Somerset. Price. $0 55 ; postage, $0 18.
H4. Report of Progress in Indiana County—1877. by W. G. Platt. Pp 316. With a colored map of the county. Price, $0 80: postage, $0 14.
H5. Report of Progress in Armstrong County—1879. By W. G. Platt. Pp. 338. With a colored map of the county. Price, $0 7.5; postage, $0 16.
​H6. Report of Progress in Jefferson County—1880; with colored map of county. By W. G. Platt. Price, $0 60; postage, $0 12.
H7. A Revision of the Bituminous Coal Measures of Clearfield County—1884: with a colored geological county map; outcrop map of me Houtzdale Basin, and coal bed sections in the text. By H. M. Chance. Price,$; postage, S .
I4. Quaker Hill Coal. Basin, Warren County. By John F. Carll. (Sea Reports Pertoleum Fields.)
K. Report on Greene and Washington Counties—1875, Bituminous Coal Fields. By J. J. Stevenson. 8 vo., pp. 420. illustrated by 3 sections and 2 county maps, showing the depth of the Pittsburgh and Waynesburg coal bed beneath the surface at numerous points. Price in paper, $0 65; postage, $0 16.
K2. Report of Progress in the Fayette and Westmoreland District of the Bituminous Coal Fields of Western Pennsylvania—1876. By J. J. Stevenson; pp. 437, illustrated by 50 wood-cuts and 3 county maps colored. Part I. Eastern Allegheny County, and Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. westChestnut Ridge. Price, $1 40: postage. $0 20.
K3. Report of Progress in the Fayette and Westmoreland District of the Bituminous Coal Fields of Western Pennsylvania—1877. By J. J. Stevenson. Pp. 331. Part'll. The Ligonier Valley. Illustrated with 107 wood-cuts, 2 plates, and 2 county maps, colored. Price, $1 10; postage,$0 16.
M, M2 and M3. Reports of Progress in the Laboratory. By Andrew S. McCreath. Contains coal analyses.
P. Report and Atals of the Atlas and Coal Flora. By Leo Lesqucreux.
P2. Report of the Permian and Upper Carboniferous Flora. By Wm. M. Fontaine and I. C. White. (See Miscellaneous Reports.) Q. Report of Progresss in the Beaver River District of the Bituminous Coal Fields of Western Pennsylvania. By I. C.White. Pp. 337 illustrated with 3 Geological maps of part of beaver, Butler, and Allegheny Counties, and 21 plates of vertical sections. 1875. Price, $1 40: postage, $0 20.
Q2. Report of Progress in1877. The Geology of Lawrence County, to which is appended a Special Report on the Correlation of the Coal Measures in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. 8 vo., pp. 336, with a colored Geological Map of the county, and 134 Vertical sections. By I. C. White. Price, $0 70 postage, $0 15.
Q3. Reort of Progress in 1878 by I. C. White, with a colored geological map of county, and 119 vertical sections. 8 vo. pp. 233. Price $0 60; postage,$0 11.
R. Report of Progress. The Geology of McKean County, and its connection with that of Cameron, Elk and Forest, with Atlas containing 8 sheets of maps and sections. By Chas. A. Ashburner. Price, $1 70;postage, $0 22.
T Coal Measures, Blair County. by Franklin Platt.
T2. Coal Measures, Bedford and Fulton Counties. By J.J Stevenson. (See Reports Central Pnnnsylvnnin.)
V. Report of Progress—1878. Part I The Northern Townships of Butler county. Part 11. A special survey made in 1875, along the Beaver and Shenango rivers, in Beaver, Lawrence, and Mercer Counties. 8 vo., pp. 248, with 4 maps, 1 profile section and 154 vertical sections, By H. Martyn Chance. Price, $0 70; postage, $0 15
​V2. Report of Progress in 1879. 8 Vo. pp. 232. The Geology of Clarion County by H. Martyn Chance, with colored geologcial map of county, a map of the Anticlinals and Oil Belt, a contoured map of the Old River Channel at Parker.83 local sections figured in the text, and 4 page plates. Price, $0 43; postage,$0 12
PETROLEUM FIELDS.
I. Report of Progress in the Venango County District-1874. By John F.Carll. With Observations on the Geolgy around Warren by F. A. Randall; and notes on the Comparative Geology of North-easetern Ohio and North-western Pennsylvania, and Western New York, by J.P. Lesley. 8 vo., pp. 127, with 2 maps, a long section, and 7 cuts in the text. Price in paper, $0 60; postage, $0 05.
I2. Report of Progress, Oil. Wells, Records,and Levels—1876-7. By John F.Carll Pp.398. Published in advance of Report of Progress, III. Price $0 60; postage $0 18.
I3. Report of Progress—1875 to 1879. Geology of the Oil Regions of Warren, Venango, Clarion and Butler Counties, including surveys of the Garland and Panama Conglomerates in Warren and Crawford counties and in Chautaugua county, New York, with descriptions of oil well rig and tolls, and a discussion of the preglacial and postglacial drainage of theLake Erie Country; with Atlas. With maps and charts of Oil Regions. By John F. Carll. Price, $2 30: postage, £0 30.
I4. Geological Report of Warren County and neighbouring Oil Regions, with additional oil well records—1880–3. By John F. Carll, with colored geological map of Warren county. two sheets of oil well sections, and a map of the Warren oil region. 439 pages. Price, $1 12; Postage, $0 20.
J. Special Report on the Petroluem of Pennsylvania—1874, its Production, Transportation, Manufacture, and Statistics. By Henry E. Wrigley. To which are added a Map and Profile of a line of levels through Butler, Amstrong, and Clarion Counties, By D. Jones Lucas: And also a Map and Profile of a line of levels along Slippery Rock Creek, by J.P. Lesley. 8 Vo., pp. 122; 5 maps and sections, a plate and 5 cuts. Price in paper $0 75:Postage, $0 06.
K. Dunkard Creek Oil District Greene County. By J. J. Stevenson. (See Reports Bituminous Coal Fields.)
L. Appendix II. A Report on the usse of Natural Gas in Iron Manufacture. By John B Pearse. (See Miscellaneous Reports.)
Q2. Descriptions of Oil Measures in and adjacent to Lawrence county. By I.C. White (See Reports Bitumiuous Coal Fields.)
Q4. Description of Oil Measures in and adjacent to Eire and Crawford Counties. By I. C. White. (See Reports North-western Pennsylvania.)
R. Description of the Bradford Oil District in McKean county with a reference to the probable position of the Oil Sands in Elk county. By Chas. A. Ashhurner. (See Reports Bituminous Coal Fields.)
V2. Descriptions of The Oil Measures in Clarion County. By H. M. Chance. (See Reports Bituminous Coal Fields.)
NORTH-WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
Q4. Report on Progress—1879. The Geology of Erie and Crawford Counties, with tables of barometric heights in each township, and notes on the place of the Sharon Conglomerate in the Palæozoic series. By I. C. ​White. Also, the discovery of the Preglacial Outlet of Lake Erie,with two maps of the Lake Region. By J. W. Spencer, Ph. D. Price, $1 17; postage. $0 18.
I, I2 , I3, I4, Q3, V, V2. and R. Petroluem Region Reports By John F. Carll, I. C. White, H. M. Chance, and Chas. A Ashburuer.
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
F. Report of Progress in the Juniata District on Foissil Iron Ore Beds of Middle Pennsylvania. By John H. Dewees. With a report of the Aughwick Valley and East Broad Top District. By C. A. Ashburner. 1874–8. Illustrated with 7 Geological maps and 19 sections. 8 vo., pp. 305. Price, $2 55: postage, $0 20.
G. Report or Progress in Bradford and Tioga Counties. By Andrew Sherwood. (See Reports Bituminous Coal Fields.)
G2. Report of Progress. Geology of Lycoming and Sullivan Counties. I. Field Notes by Andrew Sherwood. II. Coal Basins, by Franklin Platt. With two colored geological county maps and numerous illustrations. 8 vo., pp. 268. Price, $1 06; postage, $0 14.
G4 Report of Progress in Clinton County. By H. M. Chance. (See Reports Bituminous Coal Fields.)
G7. Report of Progress. The Geology in the Susquehanna River Regions in the Six Counties of Wyoming, Lackwanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Montour, and Northumberland. By I. C. White. With a colored Geological Map in 2 sheets; and 31 page plates in text. Pp. 464. Price, $0 85; postage, $0 20.
T. Report of the Progress—1882 Geology of {{sc|Blair County, with 35 illustrations and an Atlas of 14 Sheets of the colored map of Morrison's Cove, &c.; 1 index sheet, and 2 sheets of colored sections. By Franklin Platt. Price of Report and Atlas, $1 55: postage, $0 28.
Tl. Reprot of Progress—1882. The geology of Bedford and Fulton Counties. By J. J. Stevenson. 8 vo., pp. 382. Illustrated with 2 colored geological maps. Price, $0 80 ; postage, $0 20.
NORTH-EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
'G5. Report of Progress. The Geology of Susquehanna County and Wayne County. By I. C. White. Pp.243, with geological map and 58 sections. Price, $0 70: postage, $0 12.
G. Report of Progress,1881. The Geology of Pike and Monroe Counties. By I. C. White 8 vo., pp. 407. Illustrated with colored Geolgical county maps, a map of glacial scratches, and 7 small sections. Also special surveys of the Deleware and Lehigh Water Gaps. By H. M. Chance, with 2 countoured maps of Water Gaps, and 5 detailed sections. Price $1 15; postage $0 15.
G7. The Geology in the Susquehanna (North Branch) River Region in the Six Counties of Wyoming, Lackwanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, (exclusive of Anthracite Region.) by I.C.White. (see Reports Central Pennsylvania.)
G. Report of Progress in Bradford and Tioga Counties. By Andrew Sherwood. (See Reports in Bituminous Coal Fields.)
A2, AA and AC. Anthractie Region Reports. By Franklin Platt, Chas. A. Ashburner, and H.M. Chance. (See Reports Anthracite Coal Fields.)
SOUTH-EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
C. Report of Progress on York and Adams Counties—1874. By Persifor Frazer. 8vo., pp. 198, illustarted by 8 maps and sections and other illustrations. Price in paper, $0 85 ; postage, $0 10.
C. Report of Progress in Counties of York, Adams and Cucumber Land, and Franklin—1875. Illustrated by maps and cross-sections, showing the Magnetic and Micaeous Ore Belt near the western edge of the Mesozoic Sandstone and the two Azoic systems constituting the mass of the South Mountains. With a preliminary discussion on the Dillsburg Ore Bed and catalogue of specimens collected in 1875. By Persifor Frazer. Price, $1 25; postage $0 12.
C4. Report of Progress in 1877 . The Geology of Lancaster County, with an atlas containing a colored geological map of the county, local map of the Gap Nickel Mine, map and sections of the East Bank of Susquehanna River ; other geological sections across the county, and geological colored maps of York and Lancaster counties. By Persifor Frazer. 8 vo.,pp. 350. Price of Report and Atlas, $2 20 ; postage, $0 25.
C4. Geology of Chester Countym After the surveys of Henrey D. Rogers, Persifor Frazer and Charles E. Hall, edited by J. P. Lesley—with a colored geological map of the county, three lithographic plates and maps and sections in the text. Price, $0 75; postage, $0 18.
C6. Report of Progress. Geology of Philadelphia County, and of the Southern parts of Montgomery and Bucks. By Charles E. Hall. Pp. 145, with Geological map, sheet of colored cross-sections, and 24 page cuts. Price, $1 65; postage, $0 13.
D. Report of Progress in the Brown Hematite Ore Ranges of Lehigh County—1874, with descriptions of mines lying between Emaus, Alburtis, and Fogelsville. By Frederick Prime Jr. 8vo., pp.73, with a contour-line map and 8 cuts. Price in paper, $0 50; postage £0 04.
D2. The Brown Hematite Deposists of the Siluro-Cambrian Limestone of Lehigh County, lying between Shimersville, Schenecksville, Bellietsville, and the Lehigh river—1876–6. By Frederick Prime, Jr. 8 vo., pp. 99, with 5 map-sheets and 5 plates. Price, $1 60; postage, $0 12.
D3. Vol. I Report of Progress. Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties. General introduction,by J. P. Lesley. Slate Belt and Quarries, by R. A. Sanders. Water Gaps, by H.M Chance. Limestone Belt and Iron Ore Mines , by F. Prime.South Mountain Rocks, by F. Prime. Itinerary Survey, by C. E. Hall. Three lithograph and 3 artotype views of quarries, and an atlas. Pp. 283. Price, $0 65; postage, $0 13.
D3. Vol. II. Part I. Report of Progress. Geology of the South Mountain Belt of Berks County. By E.V. D'Invilliers. Illustrated by 18 page plates in the text, and by the maps in the Atlas. Pp. 441. Price, $0.55; postage, $ 018.
D3. Volumes I and II, Atlas, containing a colored counter map of Southern Northampton on 6 sheets, a contour map of the mountain on 18 sheets, a geological index map on 1 sheet, a colored geological map of Northampton and Lehigh Counties, and 4 maps of Iron Mines in Berks County. Price, $2 80;postage,$0 17.
D5. Maps of Adams, Franklin and Cumberland Counties. South Mountain Sheets A1, A2, B1 and B2. By A. E. Lehman. Price, $1 25; postage,$0 08.
​E. Special Report on the Trap Dykes and Azoic Rocks of South Eastern Pennsylvania—1875. Part I, Historical Introduction. by T. Sterry Hunt. 8 vo., pp.253. Price, $0 48; postage, $0 12.
MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS.
A. Historical Sketch of Geological Explorations in Pennsylvania and other states. By J. P. Lesley. With appendix, containing Annual Reports for 1874 and 1875; pp. pp. 226, 8vo. Price in paper,$0 25; postage, $0 06.
B. Preliminary Report on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania—1874. By Dr. F. A. Genth. With Appendix on the hydro-carbon compounds, by Samuel P. Sadtler. 8vo., pp. 206, with map of the State for reference to counties. Price in paper, $0 50 ; postage,$0 08. Price in cloth, $0 75; postage, $0 10.
L. 1875—Special report on the Coke Manfacture of the Youghigheny River Valley in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, with Geological Notes of the Coal and Iorn Ore Beds, from Surveys, by Charles A. Young; by Franklin Platt. To which are appended: I. A Report on Methods of Coking, by John Fulton. II. A Report on the use of Natural Gas in the Iorn Manufacture, by John B. Pearse, Franklin Platt, and Professor Sadtler. Pp.252. Price,$1 00; postage,$0 13.
M. Report of Progress in the Laboratory of the Survey at Harrisburg—1874-5. By Andrew S.McCreath. 8.vo., pp. 105. Price in paper, $0 50: postage, $0 05.
M2. Second Report of Progress in the Laboratory of the Survey, at Harrisburg, by Andrew S. McCreath—1876-8, including I. Classification of Coals, by Persifor Frazer. II. Firebrick Tests, by Franklin Platt. III. Notes on Dolomite Limestones, by J. P. Lesley. IV. Utilization of Anthracite Slack, by Franklin Platt. V. Determination of Carbon in Iron or Steel, by A. S. McCreath. With 3 indexes, plate, and 4 page plates. Pp. 438. Price in cloth, $0 65 ;postage, $0 18.
M3. Third Report of Progress in the Laboratory of the Survey, at Harrisburg. Analyses, &c., &c. By Andrew S. McCreath. Pp. 126, with 2 indexes and map. Price, $0 40; postage, $0 10.
N. Report of Progress—1875–6–7. Two Hundred Tables of Elevation above Tide-Level of the Railroad Stations, Summits and Tunnels ; Canal Locks and Dams, River Riffles, &c., in and around Pennsylvania; with map: pp.279. By Charles Allen. Price, $0 70 ;postage, $0 15.
O. Catalogue of the Geological Museum.—1874–5–6–7. By Charles E. Hall. Part I. Collection of Rock Specimens. Nos.1to 4,264. Pp.217. Price, $0 40; postage, $0 10.
O2. Catalogue of the Geological Museum. By Charles E. Hall. Part II. 1. Collections of rock specimens, Nos. 4265 to 8974. 2. Palæontological specimens. Price, $0 40; postage, $0 12.
P. 1879—Report and Atlas of the Coal Flora of Pennsylvania and of the Carboniferous Formation throughout the United States. By Leo Lesquereux. Price of Report,$0 80 ; postage, $0 28. Price of Atlas, $ 3 35; postage $0 22.
P2. The Permian or Upper Carboniferous Flora of West Virgina and S.W, Pennsylvania, with 38 plates. By Wm. F. Fontaine , M. A., and I. C. White, A. M. Price,$2 25; postage, $0 17.
Other Reports of the Survey are in the hands of the State Printer, and will soon be published.
​The sale of the reports is conducted in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 of the Act of the 14th day of May, 1874, which directs that copies of the reports, with all maps and supplements, shall be furnished at cost of publication to all applicants for them.
All the primed volumus and maps in stock have been transferred by the Board of Commissoners to the Department of Internal Atfairs, where the sales thereof will hereafter be conducted.
Communications relating to the work of the Survey should be addressed to J. P. Leslev, State Geologist, No. 1008 Clinton street, Philadelphia, and those intended for the Board of Commissioners, to William A. Inghnm, Secretary, No. 907 Walnut street, Philadlelplhia.
All letters and orders concerning the purchase of Reports and remittances for the same, should be addressed to,
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg- Pa.
April 1, 1884.
* ↑ Vol. III, with thirty new plates, new tables and a new index, is just issuing from the State printing house at Harrisburg.
* ↑ Note.—Single Sheets of the Anthracite survey, with the exception of those in the Panther Creek atlas, can be purchased by addressing Chas. A. Ashburner, Geologist in Charge,907 Walnut Street, Philadelphia