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Set of Minnesota Geological Survey Annual Reports
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Volumes One through Twenty Four, complete in 16 vols.
MINNESOTA
 

Below is listed a complete set of MINNESOTA GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY ANNUAL REPORTS, 24 volumes, 1873-1899. The bindings are somewhat mismatched, with most of the early Volumes (i. e. #1-11) rebound in matching gilt cloth, most if not all are ex-library. Set contains the following:  Vol. 1-3rd; 4-7th; 8-9th; 10-11th; 13-14th, 15th, 18th); Vol. 12 in rough binding, brown cloth; Vol. 16th, 17th, 19-24 in original cloth bindings as issued. Vol. 17 has a small split to gutter of spine and front board else a very good, clean and rare set to have complete. The contents of the individual volumes of the set are listed below. Note that this collection is sold ONLY as a set. Individual volumes of this series for sale may be found following the below item description.   Price for set:   $600.00                 (stock#MNARS001P)

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 1872 By Winchell, N.H.

and Twining, E.H., 1873, 112 pp. Contents include:  Address;

Historical Sketch and list of publications relating to geology

and natural history of Minnesota; General principles; The

surface contour of the State; The surface geology; Sketch of

the geology of Minnesota; Plans and recom-mendations; List

of plants [found in Minnesota].

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 1873 By Winchell,

N.H. and Peckham, S.F., 1874, 145 pp., Contents include: 

Address; The Belle Plain Salt Well; Peat; The Geology of the

Minnesota Valley.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 1874 By Winchell, N.H

1875, 42 pp., Contents include: Address; Report on geology

of Freeborn County; Report on the geology of Mower County.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 1875 By Winchell,

N.H,  Harrington, M.W. and Angst, 1876, 162 pp. Contents

include: Report on the geology of Filmore County; Report on

the geology of Olmstead County; Report on the Geology of

Dodge County; Report on the geology of Steele County;

Topography; Railroad Elevations; Report on the General

Museum.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 1876 By Winchell, N.H,

1877, 205 pp. Contents include: Summary statement; The

geology of Houston County; Notes on the fossils of the

Trenton limestone in Minnesota; Chemistry; Botany; Fungi;

Ornithology, Entomology; The geology of Hennepin County;

Aves; A new cyclops.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 1877 By Winchell, N.H,

Sperry, L.B., Peckham, S.F., Whitman, A., Hatch, P. L. and

Alexander, E. S. 1878, 225 pp. Contents include: Summary

Statement; The water supply of the Red River Valley;

Reconnaissances; The geology of Morrison County;

The geology of Ramsey County; The geology of Rock and

Pipestone Counties; Notes on the fossils of the Trenton in

Minnesota; Report on the geology of Rice County; Chemistry;

Entomology; Ornithology; Railroad elevations; Report on the

General Musuem.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA Seventh Annual Report 1878 By Winchell, N. H.

and Others, 1879, 123 pp. Contents include: Summary

Statement; Sketch of work of the season of 1878; Field Report

of C. W. Hall; Elevations on the Minnesota Northern Railroad;

Chemistry; Ornithology; The Plants of the North Shore of

Lake Superior; Report on the General Museum; Microscopic

Entomostraca.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 1879 By Winchell,

N.H., Upham, W., Hall, C.W., Roberts, T.S., Peckham, S.F.,

Hatch, P.L., and Smith, J.L., 1880, 8vo, front wrap loose, rear

wrap lacking, internally very good, ex-library with 187 pp., 1

plate. Contents include: Summary statement; Lithology; The

Museum; Descriptions of new species of Brachiopoda from

the Trenton and Hudson River Formations in Minnesota;

Preliminary report on the geology of central and western

Minnesota; Report of Professor C.W. Hall; Plants of the North

Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota; Chemistry; Ornithology;

On lintonite and other forms of thomsonite: A preliminary

notice of the zeolites of the vicinity of Grand Marais,

Cook County, Minnesota; Correspondence with the United

States Geological Survey; Study of Emmet County meteorite

that fell near Estherville, Emmett County, Iowa, May 10, 1879;

Castoroides ohioensis, Foster.

                              

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 1880 By Winchell, N.H.,

Garrison, O.E., Terry, C.M., Upham, W., Dodge, J.A., Hatch, P.L.,

Roberts, T.S., Comstock, C.B., and Treherne, H.S., 1881, 404

pp. Contents include: Summary statement; Preliminary list of

rocks; New Brachipoda from the Trenton and Hudson River

Formations in Minnesota; The Museum report for 1880; List of

books in the Library of the Geological and Natural History

Survey; The water supply of the Red River Valley; The Upper

Mississippi region; The hydrology of Minnesota; Report of

progress in exploration of the glacial drift and its terminal

moraines; Chemistry; A list of birds of Minnesota; The

winter birds of Minnesota; Determination of latitude and

longitude in Minnesota; The cupriferous series in Minnesota;

An ancient outlet of Lake Manitoba.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA TENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1881 By Winchell, N.H.,

Kloos, J.H., Dodge, J.A., and Herrick, C.L., 1882, 264 pp.

Contents include: Summary statement; Preliminary list of

rocks; The Potsdam sandstone; Typical thin sections of the

rocks of the cupriferous series in Minnesota; The Museum;

Geological notes on Minnesota [a translation]; Chemistry; The

geology of the deep well drilled by C.C. Whelpley at

Minneapolis, at the “C” Washburn mill; Papers on the

Crustacea of the fresh waters of Minnesota.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1882 By Winchell,

N.H., Streng, A., Kloos, J.H., Upham, W., Chester, A.H., Dodge,

J.A., and Herrick, C.L., 1884, 221 p. Contents include: The

mineralogy of Minnesota; the crystalline rocks of Minnesota;

Notes on rock-outcrops in central Minnesota; Lake Agassiz: A

chapter in glacial geology; The iron region of northern

Minnesota; Note on the age of the rocks of the Mesabi and

Vermilion iron districts; Chemical analyses; Minnesota laws

relating to mines and mining.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT 1883 By Winchell,

N.H., Herrick, C.L., and Upham, W., 1884, 196 p. Contents

include: Summary statement; Palaeontology; The

comparative strength of Minnesota and New England

granites; Report on the Museum for 1883; A final report on the

Crustacea of Minnesota included in the orders Cladocera

and Copepoda; Catalogue of the flora of Minnesota.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1884 By

Winchell, N.H., Upham, W., Dodge, J.A., Williamson, A.W.,

Oestlund, O.W., Bechdolt, A.F., Holzinger, J.M., Dawson, G.M.,

Woodward, A., Thomas, B.W., and Herrick, C.L., 1885, 196 p.

Contents include: Summary statement; Reconnaissances;

The Vermilion iron ores; The crystalline rocks of Minnesota;

Additional rock samples numbered; The Humboldt salt well in

Kittson County; The deep well at Lakewood Cemetery; Notes

on the artesian wells at Mendota, Hastings, Red Wing, Lake

City and Brownsville, and on the deep wells at St. Paul;

Fossils from the red quartzite at Pipestone; The New Orleans

Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition; Report on the

Museum for 1884; Notes on the geology of Minnehaha

County, Dakota; Chemistry; Minnesota geographical names

derived from the Dakota language with some that are

obsolete; Entomology; The crystalline rocks of the

Northwest; Geological notes in Blue Earth County; Fossil

elephant in Winona County; Boulder-clays; On the

foraminifera of the boulder-clay taken from a well shaft 22 feet

deep, Meeker County, central Minnesota; Notes on the

mammals of Big Stone Lake and vicinity.

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1885 By

Winchell, N.H., Oestlund, O.W., Ulrich, E.O., Grant, U.S.,

Woodward, A., Washburn, F.L., Dodge, J.A., and Hatch, P.L.,

1886, Contents include: Summary statement; Notes on some

deep wells in Minnesota; List of the Aphididae of Minnesota,

with descriptions of some new species; Report on the Lower

Silurian Bryozoa with preliminary descriptions of some of the

new species; Remarks upon the names Cheirocrinus and

Calceocrinus, with descriptions of three new generic terms

and one new species; Conchological notes; Report on the

Museum for 1885; The bibliography of the foraminifera, recent

and fossil, including Eozoon and Receptaculites, 1565-Jan. 1,

1886; New species of fossils; A supposed silver alloy of

copper and silver from the North Shore of Lake Superior;

Revision of the stratigraphy of the Cambrian in Minnesota;

Notes of a trip up the Thief River and at Lake Mille Lacs;

Chemistry; Ornithology.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1886 By

Winchell, N.H., Winchell, A., Winchell, H.V., Dodge, J.A.,

Gilfillan, J.A., and Foerste, A.F., 1887, 496 pp. Contents

include: Summary report; Report of geological observations

made in northeastern Minnesota during the season of 1886;

Geological report of N.H. Winchell; Partial report of

observations made by H.V. Winchell; Chemistry; Railroad

elevations; Geographical names from the Chippewa

language; Notes on Illaeni.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1887 By Winchell,

N.H., Winchell, A., Winchell, H.V., Grant, U.S., and Holzinger,

J.M., 1888, 504 pp. Contents include: Summary statement;

Report of N.H. Winchell; Report of a geological survey in

Minnesota during the season of 1887; Report of observations

made during the summer of 1887; Notes on the molluscan

fauna of Minnesota.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1888 By

Winchell, N.H., Winchell, H.V., and Grant, U.S., 1889, 273 pp.

Contents include: Summary statement for 1888; Report of

N.H. Winchell; Report of field observations made during the

season of 1888 in the iron regions of Minnesota; Report of

geological observations made in northeastern Minnesota

during the summer of 1888; Museum additions; Appendix

—List of recent publications relating to the crystalline rocks.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1889 By

Winchell, N.H. and Winchell, A., 1890, 234 pp. Contents

include: Summary statement for 1889; Report of field

observations; American opinion on older rocks.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 1890 By

Winchell, N.H., Boricky, E., Kloos, J.H., Dodge, J.A., Ayres, H.B.,

Bayley, W.S., and Ulrich, E.O., 1892, 255 pp. Contents Include:

The elements of a new method of chemicomicroscopic

analysis of rocks and minerals; Geognostic and geographic

observations in the State of Minnesota; Chemistry; The

woods of Minnesota; Museum additions; Additions to the

Library since the report of 1889; Catalogue of the meteorites

in the University collection, with references to literature

describing them; Notes on the petrography and geology of

the Akeley Lake region in northeastern Minnesota; New Lower

Silurian Lamellibranchiata, chiefly from Minnesota rocks.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 1891 By

Winchell, N.H., Grant, U.S., Winchell, H.V., Lawson, A.C.,

Thomas, B.W., and Smith, H.L., 1893, 349 pp. Contents

include: The crystalline rocks: Some preliminary

considerations as to their structures and origin; Field

notes of N.H. Winchell in 1890; Field observations on certain

granitic areas in northeastern Minnesota; The Mesabi iron

range; Sketch of the coastal topography of the north side of

Lake Superior, with special reference to the abandoned

strands of Lake Warren (the greatest of the Late Quaternary

lakes of North America); Diatomaceae of Minnesota

interglacial peat; List of species and some notes upon them;

Oxide of manganese; Museum additions; Additions to

the Library since the report for 1890.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA TWENTY FIRST ANNUAL REPORT By Winchell,

N.H., Grant, U.S., and Todd, J.E., 1893, 177 pp. Contents

include: Summary statement and comparative nomenclature;

The geology of Kekequabic Lake in northeastern Minnesota,

with special reference to an augite soda-granite; Catalogue of

rock specimens collected in northeastern Minnesota in

1892; Prelimnary report of a reconnaissance in northwestern

Minnesota in 1892; Field observations of N.H. Winchell in

1892; Additional rock samples collected in 1892 to illustrate

the report of N.H. Winchell; Additions to the Library since the

report for 1891.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA TWENTY SECOND ANNUAL REPORT By

Winchell, N.H., Upham, W., Grant, U.S., Meeds, A.D., Todd, J.E.,

Culver, G.E., Spurr, J.E., Berkey, C.P., and Elftman, A.H., 1894,

216 pp. Contents include: Summary statement; List of rock

samples collected to illustrate the notes of N.H. Winchell,

1893; Preliminary report of field work during 1893 in

northeastern Minnesota, chiefly related to the glacial drift;

Preliminary report of field work during 1893 in Northeastern

Minnesota by U.S. Grant; List of rock samples collected in

1893 by U.S Grant; List of rock samples collected in 1893 by

A.D. Meeds; Preliminary report of a reconnaissance

in northwestern Minnesota during 1893 by J.E. Todd; Notes

on the geology of Itasca County, Minnesota; Preliminary

report on field work done in 1893 by J.E. Spurr; List of rock

samples collected in 1893 by J.E. Spurr; Preliminary report of

leveling party; Preliminary report of field work during 1893 in

northeastern Minnesota by A.H. Elftman; List of rock samples

collected in 1893 by A.H. Elftman; Museum additions;

Additions to the Library since the report of 1892; The exhibit

of the Survey at the Columbian Exposition.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTATWENTY THIRD ANNUAL REPORT By Winchell,

N.H., Winchell, H.V., Grant, U.S., Hoag, W.R., Upham, W.,

Berkey, C.P., and Elftman, A.H., 1895, 261 pp. Contents

include: Summary statement; The origin of the Archean

greenstones; Preliminary report on the Rainy Lake gold

region; The topographical survey of Minnesota; Historical

sketch of the discovery of mineral deposits in the Lake

Superior region; Late Glacial or Champlain subsidence and

reelevation of the St. Lawrence River basin; Notes on

Minnesota minerals; Chemical analyses; The progress of

mining; Compressive strength of some Minnesota bricks and

building stones; List of rock samples collected in 1894 by U.S.

Grant; Notes upon the bedded and banded structures of the

gabbro and upon an area of troctolyte; Additions to the

Library since the report for 1893; Museum additions; List of

rock samples collected in 1894 to illustrate the field notes of

N.H. Winchell.

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINNESOTA TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT By

Winchell, N.H., Grant, U. S. and Elftman, A. H. 1899, 291 pp.

Contents include: Summary statement; Rock samples

collected to illustrate the notes of N.H. Winchell in 1896, with

annotations; Rock samples collected to illustrate the field

notes of N.H. Winchell in 1897 with annotations; Rock

samples collected by N.H. Winchell in1898, with field

annotations; Record of geological field work in northeastern

Minnesota, 1892 to 1898; List of rock samples collected in

northeastern Minnesota in 1898 by U.S. Grant; Preliminary

report of fieldwork during the summer of 1895; List of rock

samples collected in northeastern Minnesota in 1895, 1896

and 1897; Additions to the Library since the report for 1894;

General index of the annual reports of the Minnesota Survey,

[reports I-XXIV], 1872-1899; Price list of the publications of the

geological and natural history survey of Minnesota.

 

 

MINNESOTA ANNUAL REPORTS-

SINGLE VOLUMES

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 1872 By Winchell, N.H.

and Twining, E.H., 1873, 8vo, in wraps as issued though rear

wrap lacking, internally very good, overall light wear with 112

pp., some plates/figures and pages uncut and untrimmed. 

Contents include: Address; Historical sketch and list of

publications relating to the geology and natural history of

Minnesota; General principles; The surface contour of the

State; The surface geology; Sketch of the geology of

Minnesota; Plans and recommendations; List of plants

[found in Minnesota].     Price:  $40.00       (stock#MN002P)

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 1873 By Winchell,

N.H. and Peckham, S.F., 1874 [2nd edition printed 1893] 8vo,

front wrap lacking, short marginal tear to some pages in

margin, pages with some toning from age, else good and

serviceable copy with 145 pp. Contents Include: Address; The

Belle Plaine Salt Well; Peat; The geology of the Minnesota

Valley.                            Price:   $35.00               (stock#MN003P)

 

THE GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY OF

MINESOTA EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 1879, By Winchell, N.

H. and Others, 1880,  8vo, front wrap loose, rear wrap lacking,

internally very good, ex-library with 187 pp., 1 plate.  Contents

include: Summary statement; Lithology; The Museum;

Descriptions of new species of Brachiopoda from the Trenton

and Hudson River Formations in Minnesota; Preliminary

report on the geology of central and western Minnesota;

Report of Professor C.W. Hall; Plants of the North Shore of

Lake Superior, Minnesota; Chemistry; Ornithology; On

lintonite and other forms of thomsonite: A preliminary