AuthorNorth American Boundary Commission, 1872-1876.
TitleReport on the geology and resources of the region in the vicinity of the forty-ninth parallel, from the Lake of the woods to the Rocky Mountains. With lists of plants and animals collected, and notes on the fossils. By George Mercer Dawson...
PublishedMontreal, Dawson Brothers; New York, B. Westermann & Co.; [etc., etc.] 1875.
Descriptionxi, 387 p. XVIII pl., fold. pl., 2 fold. maps (incl. front.) 24 cm.
General NoteAt head of title: British North American Boundary Commission.
Formatted NoteContents: Appendix. (A) Note on the plants, collected by Mr. G. M. Dawson, from the lignite Tertiary deposits, near the forty-ninth parallel, by J. W. Dawson. (B) Report on the vertebrate fossils from the Fort Union group of Milk River, by E. D. Cope. (C) Lake of the woods--table showing the nature and directions of the dykes and veins observed. (D) Notice of the butterflies and Orthoptera, collected by Mr. G. M. Dawson, as naturalist of the B. N. A. boundary commission, by Samuel H. Scudder. (E) Land and fresh-water Mollusca, collected during the summers of 1873-74, in the vicinity of the forty-ninth parallel-Lake of the woods to the Rocky Mountains. (F) List of plants collected during the summers of 1873-74, in the vicinity of the forty-ninth parallel-Lake of the woods to the Rocky Mountains.
SubjectsGeology -- Canada.
United States -- Boundaries.
Other AuthorsDawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901.
LC Card Number06-803//R43
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 WRHS Research Library: F 1060 B862
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