1890 USGS 10th AR Pt I Dismal Swamp Penokee Iron Michigan WI Olenellus Trilobite

Description: Tenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1888-‘89 Part I - Geology by J. W. Powell, Director, with technical papers by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Roland Duer Irving and Charles Richard Van Hise, and Charles D. Walcott, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890 First edition, quarto, xv, 774 pp. including 69 figures and 98 plates (some in color and many folding) plus large folding topographical map in rear pocket. In original brown government cloth with gilt spine titles and front cover decoration. Condition: Complete and fair overall with wear to extremities and scuffing and rubbing to boards. Not ex-library! Binding is shaken and weak, especially along the rear inner hinge which is almost detached. Last flyleaf is detached. Pages and plates are clean with no markings or foxing. Rear pocket map is clean and very good. One of the scarcer USGS annual reports containing three technical papers, all authored by some of the Survey’s greatest early geologists. In addition, the report contains the report of the director and various administrative reports which describe the workings of the Geological Survey ten years after its formation in 1879, including revisions to color schemes and nomenclature for geological maps that were first adopted by the Survey in Powell’s 2nd annual report. This volume contains classic reports on:General Account of the Fresh-Water Morasses of the United States, with a Description of the Dismal Swamp District of Virginia and North Carolina (Shaler)The Penokee Iron-Bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin (Irving, Van Hise), andThe Fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olenellus Zone (Walcott)

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