COLABORATORS OF THE SURVEY. Prof. JOSEPH LEIDY. Prof. E. D. COPE.... Prof. LEO LESQUEREUX.... Prof. J. S. NEWBERY. +F. B. MEEK.. Prof. THOMAS C. PORTER. Dr. ELLIOTT COUES. Dr. A. S. PACKARD.. SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. P. R. UHLER Dr. G. H. HORN Dr. H. HAGEN. W. H. EDWARDS. BARON R. OSTEN SACKEN E. T. CRESSON S. R. GIFFORD University of Pennsylvania, Fossil Vertebrata. Philadelphia, Pa., Paleontologist of the School of Mines, Columbia College, N. Washington, D. C., Paleontologist of U. S. A., Ornithology. Salem, Mass., Lepidoptera, &c. Philadelphia, Pa., Hymenoptera. HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE SURVEY. THOMAS MORAN.. WILLIAM 1870...Artist, New York City. ..1871...Artist, Newark, New Jersey. BLACKMORE...1872...Ethnologist, London, England. N. P. LANGFORD........1872... Superintendent Yellowstone National Park, St. Paul, Minnesota. W. D. WHITNEY.. .....1873... Professor Oriental Languages, Yale College, New Haven. * Messrs. Batty, Stuckle, Taggart, Luce, Nealy, Holman, Cole, and Noonan, were attached to the survey of the United States while in the field. + Messrs Leidy, Cope, Lesquereux, Meek and Porter have rendered most important services to the survey in the field in their special departments, and their contributions to the annual reports are of great value. The qualifications for honorary membership of the survey are, viz: that the member shall have previously been eminent in some intellectual pursuit; shall have been an invited guest of the survey for at least one season; and during his connection with the expedition in the field, shall have displayed great powers of physical endurance. The survey has also received the assistance of specialists in various departments of botany, as Prof. D. C. Eaton, Filices; Henry Willey, Lichens; C. H. Peck, Fungi; S. T. Olney, Cyperaceae; Drs. Vasey and Thornton, Graminaceae; and W. G. Binney, Land-Shells. LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES.* 1. First, Second, and Third Annual Reports of Progress for 1867-8-9, pp. 261, 8vo. 2. Fourth Annual Report of Progress for 1870, (Wyoming, &c.,) pp. 511, 8vo. 3. Fifth Annual Report of Progress for 1871, (Montana, &c.,) pp. 538, Svo., with sixty-four wood-cuts, two plates and five maps. 4. Sixth Annual Report of Progress for 1872, (Idaho, &c.,) pp. 844, Svo. with sixty-eight wood-cuts, twelve plates and five maps, 5. Seventh Annual Report of Progress for 1873, in preparation, and will be issued early in 1874. 6. Final Report of the Geological Survey of Nebraska during the year 1867, pp. 264, 8vo., with a colored geological map and eleven plates of carboniferous fossils. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS. 7. No. 1.-Lists of Elevations in that portion of the United States west of the Mississippi. Collated and arranged by Henry Gannett, assistant, pp. 47, 8vo. Second edition. A third edition of this important paper will be issued in a few months, very much enlarged and improved. S. No. 2.-Meteorological Observations during the year 1872, Utah, Idaho, and Montana, prepared for publication by Henry Gannett, assistant, pp. 120, 8vo. 9. No. 3.-Hand-book of the Ornithology of the Territories of the Northwest, by Dr. Elliott Cones, U. S. A., (in press.) 10. No. 4.-Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado, by Prof. T. C. Porter and John M. Coulter, (in press.) 11. No. 5-Catalogue of Photographic Negatives belonging to the survey, by Wm. H. Jackson, (nearly ready.) 12. Supplement to the Fifth Annual Report, on the Fossil Flora of the West by Leo Lesquereaux, pp. 22, 8vo. 13. Synopsis of New Vertebrata from the Tertiary of Colorado, obtained during the summer of 1873, by Prof. E. D. Cope, pp. 19, Svo. QUARTO PUBLICATIONS. 14. Vol. I. Contributions to the Extinct Vertebrata of the Western Formations, by Prof. Joseph Leidy, pp. 358, with thirty-seven plates. 15. Vol. II. The Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Formations of the West, by Prof. E. D. Cope. *Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, and 18, are already published Nos. 9 and 10 are in press and will be issued in a few weeks. If success attends the efforts of the survey all the publications indicated in the list will be issued in less than two years, with several others not mentioned. 16. Vol. III. The Vertebrata of the Eocene Formations of the West, by Prof. E. D. Cope. 17. Vol. IV. The Vertebrata of the Miocene and Pliocene Formations of the West, by Prof. E. D. Cope. 18. Vol. V. Synopsis of the Acrididae of North America, by Prof. Cyrus Thomas. 19. Vol VI. Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Formations of the West, by Prof. J. S. Newberry. 20. Vol. VII. The Fossil Flora of the Cretaceous Formations of the Western Territories, by Prof. Leo Lesquereux. 21. Vol. VIII. The Fossil Flora of the Tertiary Formations of the Western Territories, by Prof. Leo. Lesquereux. 22. Vol. IX. The Fossil Invertebrata of the Western Territories, by F. B. Meek. 23. Vol. X. Sections, Profiles, and other Illustrations of the Geology of the Western Territories explored by the Survey, with descriptive text, by F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist in Charge. In three parts. 24. Sections, Profiles, &c., a portion of No. 23. Only 100 copies published-will be reproduced in No. 23. MAPS. Prepared by the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. 1. Yellowstone Lake. 1871. 2. Lower Geyser Basin of Firehole River. 3. Upper Geyser Basin of Firehole River. 4. Yellowstone National Park. 5. Parts of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming Territories. Preliminary map for field use. 1872. 6. Map of the Lower Geyser Basin of Firehole River, resurveyed by Bechler in 1872, and beautifully engraved on stone, (scale 8 miles to 1 inch.) 7. Map of Upper Geyser Basin of Firehole River. 8. Map of Lake Henry and the Sources of the West Fork of Snake River. 9. Map of Shoshone Geyser Basin and Lake. 10. Map of the Sources of Snake River, (reduced from the final map.) 11. Montana and Wyoming Territories, embracing most of the country about the sources of the Madison, Gallatin, and Yellowstone Rivers, in contour lines. (Final map on a scale of 5 miles to 1 inch.) 12. Map of the Sources of Snake River and its Tributaries. (Final map scale 5 miles to 1 inch.) 13. Field map of Colorado based on the United States land survey, during the season of 1873. PHILADELPHIA, December 18, 1873. SIR: I send herewith a report on the stratigraphical relations and vertebrate paleontology of the formations which represent the Pliocene epoch, as at present understood, in Northeastern Colorado. This essay is based upon material collected by myself during a part of the summer of 1873, under the auspices of the Geological Survey of the Territories, of which you are director. Hoping that it will subserve the objects of the survey, I remain, with respect, Dr. F. V. HAYDEN, EDWARD D. COPE, Paleontologist. Director of the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories. |