Tertiary Vertebrata of the West

Abstract

THE American Government has in many ways shown the importance which it attaches to the diffusion of scientific knowledge; but in nothing has this been more clearly seen than in the care with which the results of the Geological Surveys have been published, and the liberality with which these works have been distributed; so that geologists on this side of the Atlantic are well acquainted with the magnificent quarto volumes in which the Reports of the Geological Survey of the Territories have been published. A number of these volumes had already appeared under the directorship of Dr. F. V. Hayden, when, in the year 1882, their publication was committed to the charge of Major J. W. Powell, Director of the United States Geological Survey. The work now before us is the first Report of the Survey of the Territories published since this change, and will take its place as the third volume of the series. While fully equal to the previous reports in the care bestowed upon the drawing and printing, it is by far the largest volume which has yet appeared, comprising, as it does, more than a thousand pages of letterpress and upwards of one hundred lithographic plates.

Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories.

F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist-in-Charge. Vol. III. “The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West.” Book I. By Edward D. Cope. (Washington, 1883–1884.)