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Annual Reports[edit]

First annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior" Clarence King, Director. 1880

Monographs[edit]

There were 55 Monographs published by the USGS between 1882 and 1929.

No. 1 "Lake Bonneville" by Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1890. 438 p.
No. 2 "Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon district, with atlas" Dutton, Clarence E., 1882. 264 p. and atlas of 23 sheets folio
No. 3 "Geology of the Comstock lode and the Washoe district, with atlas" Becker, George Ferdinand, 1882. 422 p. and atlas of 21 sheets folio
No. 4 "Comstock mining and miners" Lord, Eliot, 1883. 451 p.
No. 5 "The copper-bearing rocks of lake Superior" Irving, Roland Duer, 1883. 464 p.
No. 6 "Contributions to the knowledge of the older Mesozoic flora of Virginia" Fontaine, William Morris, 1883. 144 p.
No. 7 "Silver-lead deposits of Eureka, Nevada" Curtis, Joseph Story, 1884. 200 p.
No. 8 "Paleontology of the Eureka district" Walcott, Charles D., 1884. 298 p.
No. 9 "Brachiopoda and Lamelllibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greensland Marls of New Jersey" Whitfield R. P. 1885. 328 pp., 30 plts, 2 figs.
No. 10 "Dinocerata an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals" Marsh O. C. 1885 243 pp., 56 fossil mammal plts, 200 figs.
No. 11
No. 12 "Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado" Emmons S. F. 1886.769 pp., 45 plts, 6 figs.
No. 13 "Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope" Becker, G. F. 1888.
No. 14
No. 15 "The Potomac or Younger Mesozoic Flora" Fontaine, W. M. 1889.
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No. 19 ""The Penokee Iron Bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin" Irving R. D. & Van Hise C. R. 1892. 534 p, 37 pl. 12 fig.
No. 20 "Geology of the Eureka District, Nevada" Hague, A. 1892. 396 p.
No. 21 "Tertiary Rhynchophorus Coleoptera" Scudder, S. H. 1893, 206 p. 12 plates.
No. 22
No. 23 "Geology of the Green Mountains, Massachusetts" Pumpelly R. et al. 1894.206 pp., 23 plts, 79 figs.
No. 24 "Mollusca and Crustacea of the Miocene Formations of New Jersey including Brachiopoda" Whitfield, R. P. 1894. 195 p., 24 plates.

Bulletins[edit]

There have been over 4,600 Bulletins prepared since 1883

No. 1 "On hypersthene andesite and on triclinic pyroxene in augitic rocks" by Whitman Cross and Samuel Franklin Emmons, 1883
"Gold and silver conversion tables, giving the coining values of troy ounces of fine metal, and the weights of fine metal represented by given sums of United States money: by Albert Williams, Jr., 1883
No. 3 "On the fossil faunas of the Upper Devonian, along the meridian of 76 degrees 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania" by Henry Shaler Williams, 1884
No. 4 "On Mesozoic fossils" by Charles A. White, 1884
No. 5 "A dictionary of altitudes in the United States" by Henry Gannett, 1884
No. 6 "Elevations in the dominion of Canada" by J.W. Spencer, 1884
No. 7 "Mapoteca geologica americana, a catalogue of geological maps of America (North and South), 1752-1881" by Jules Marcou and John Belknap Marcou, 1884
No. 8 "On secondary enlargements of mineral fragments in certain rocks" by Roland Duer Irving and Charles Richard Van Hise, 1884
No. 9 "A report of work done in the Washington laboratory during the fiscal year 1883-84" by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke and Thomas Marean Chatard, 1884
No. 10 "On the Cambrian faunas of North America (preliminary studies)" by Charles D. Walcott, 1884
No. 322 "Geology and oil resources of the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, California" by Ralph Arnold and Robert van Vleck Anderson, 1907. 161 p.
No. 664 "The Nenana coal field, Alaska" by George Curtis Martin, 1919. 54 p.

Professional Papers[edit]

There have been over 3,000 Professional Papers published since 1902

No. 1 "Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, with an introductory sketch of the geology of southeastern Alaska" by Alfred Hulse Brooks. 1902
No. 2 "A reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska" by Collier, Arthur James, 1902
No. 3 "The geology and petrography of Crater lake national park" by Joseph Silas Diller and Horace Bushnell Patton. 1902
No. 4 "The forests of Oregon" Gannett, Henry. 1902
No. 5 "The forests of Washington" by Henry Gannett. 1902
No. 6 "Forest conditions in the Cascade Range, Washington, between the Washington and Mount Rainier forest reserves" Plummer, F. G. 1902
No. 7 "Forest conditions in Olympic Forest Reserve, Washington" by Arthur Dodwell and Theodore F. Rixon, 1902
No. 8 "Forest conditions in the northern Sierra Nevada, California" Leiberg, J. B. 1902
No. 9 "Forest conditions in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, Oregon" by H.D. Langille, 1903
No. 10 Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak rivers" by Mendenhall, W. C., 1903
No. 42 "Geology of the Tonopah mining district, Nevada" by Spurr, J. E., 1905. 295 p.

General Interest Publications[edit]

Works About the Bureau[edit]

"Instructions Relating to the Work of the United States Geological Survey: To Take Effect May 1, 1903" (1903)
"Handbook for Field Geologists in the United States Geological Survey by Charles Willard Hayes (1908)
"Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey (1913)
Rabbitt, Mary C. "Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare : a history of public lands, Federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States" US Geological Survey, 1979. 3 volumes:
... Assignment of Employees and Localities of Field Work: Season of 1905. Geologic, Topographic ... (1905)

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