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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[1] 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


  1. 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

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