Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota
Subtitle: and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury department.
By: By David Dale Owen, United States geologist.
Contributors: Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891.; Norwood, Joseph Granville, 1807-1895.; Parry, Charles Christopher, 1823-1890.; Pratten, Henry.; Shumard, B. F. 1820-1869.; Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886.; United States. General Land Office.
Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo & co.
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
Subjects: Geology -- Mississippi River Valley; Paleontology -- Mississippi River Valley; Botany -- Wisconsin; Botany -- Minnesota; Birds -- Wisconsin; Birds -- Minnesota
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: Geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, by D.D. Owen.; title: Geological report of a survey of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, made during the years 1847, '48, '49 and '50 ... by J.G. Norwood.; title: Geological report of that portion of Wisconsin bordering on the south shore of Lake Superior, surveyed in the year 1849 ... by Charles Whittlesey.; title: 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.; title: Description of the remains of extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, from Nebraska Territory ... by Joseph Leidy.