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United States Geological Survey

 Organization

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Boston lectures, c1879

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/6
Scope and Contents

The Boston lectures and other items series consists of:


  1. Text of lectures
  2. Notes for lectures
  3. Maps
Dates: c1879

Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 March 1880 - 06 June 1891

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton sub-series consists of:


  1. 18 letters to Sir Archibald Geikie from Captain Clarence Edward Dutton of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) concerning geological observations in the United States and the organisation of the USGS (1880-1891)
Dates: 05 March 1880 - 06 June 1891

Correspondence from Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, 1874-1884

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/1
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden sub-series consists of:


  1. 51 letters, chronologically arranged (1874-1884)
  2. presscuttings, photographs, notices and notes
Dates: 1874-1884

Drainage Map, showing a portion of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, 1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/6/9
Scope and Contents

Drainage Map, showing a portion of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, 1879, surveyed by the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Primary triangulation by AD Wilson; Topography by Henry Gannett, GB Chittenden, Gustavus R Bechler and FA Clark.

Dates: 1879

Economic Map of Colorado, c1879

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/6/17
Scope and Contents

Economic Map of Colorado by the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.

Dates: c1879

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 June 1880

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/5
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton giving the background details to the current Congress debate concerning the expansion of the United States Geological Survey to incorporate individual State Surveys. He reports that he will shortly be leaving to undertake field work at the Grand Canyon and requests that Geikie send his sister copies of the review he has written of Dutton's book.

Dates: 21 June 1880

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 17 January 1881

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/6
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, thanking him for his articles on weathering and postulating that the Grand Canyon was formed in this manner, and that he is preparing a section concerning this for Geikie's manual. He recommends William Henry Holmes' topographical drawings of the Grand Canyon and reports that photolithographs are being prepared. He gives details of the depths of the individual geological stratifications which can be observed at the Grand...
Dates: 17 January 1881

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 20 January 1881

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/7
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton. He encloses a report by Clarence King and explains the poor quality of his own entry in this. He discusses the formation of the basaltic plateaux which are cut by the Grand Canyon in the light of some articles written by Geikie. He concludes that there are 2 models of volcanic eruption: The Mediterranean Type where many small eruptions concentrated in a small area produce cinder cones and the Rocky Mountain Type where few very...
Dates: 20 January 1881

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 16 March 1881

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/8
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton enclosing copies of topographical drawings of the Grand Canyon by William Henry Holmes. He pontificates over what text he will eventually send to accompany the drawings and asserts that the Grand Canyon was formed during the Pliocene and the Quaternary geological periods rather than by erosion during the Tertiary period. He promises to forward copies of Holmes' drawings of the Kaibab region shortly. He reports that John W Powell...
Dates: 16 March 1881

Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 03 May 1882

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/10
Scope and Contents Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling Geikie that he has declined the invitation from the journal Nature to review Geikie's forthcoming publications, as he will shortly be leaving for the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) to do field work in preparation for a systematic study of the volcanic fields of California and Oregon. He recommends his colleague Grove Karl Gilbert for the task and asks Geikie if he will review his new monograph...
Dates: 03 May 1882

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Grand Canyon (Arizona, United States) 10
Geological Mapping 9
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Hawaii (United States) 6
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Madison River (Wyoming and Montana, United States) 4
Yellowstone River (United States) 3
Basaltic Lavas 2
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Erosion 2
Kaibab National Forest (Arizona, United States) 2
Oregon (United States) 2
Politics 2
Snake River (Colorado, United States) 2
Social Interaction 2
Utah (United States) 2
Volcanic Activity 2
Volcanoes 2
Wyoming (United States) 2
Appointment to Office 1
Boston (Massachusetts, United States) 1
California, Gulf of (Mexico) 1
Cascade Range (United States) 1
Colorado (United States) 1
Fossils 1
Gallatin River (Wyoming and Montana, United States) 1
Geologists 1
Geology 1
Geology, Research 1
Geology, Stratigraphic 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Devonian 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Pliocene 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Quaternary 1
Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 1
Green River (Wyoming and Utah, United States) 1
Hematite 1
Huron, Lake (Michigan, United States and Ontario, Canada) 1
Idaho (United States) 1
Lake Superior, Michigan, USA 1
Lava Flows 1
Lectures and Lecturing 1
Magnetite 1
Mexico -- Mexico City 1
Montana (United States) 1
Montreal (Quebec, Canada) 1
Photolithography 1
Professional Criticism 1
Rocks, Metamorphic 1
Rocks, Sedimentary 1
Rocky Mountains 1
San Francisco (California, United States) 1
Shoshone (Idaho, United States) 1
Societies, Geological 1
Texas (United States) 1
Unconformities (Geology) 1
United States 1
Volcanic Fields 1
Volcanism 1
Washington (D.C., United States) 1
White River (Colorado and Utah, United States) 1
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