Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1894-95. Part I - Director's Report and Papers of a Theoretic Nature: [Includes Dinosaurs of North America; Glacier Bay Alaska and More] de Walcott, Charles D., (Director); Marsh, O.C.,; Reid, H.F.; Ward, L.F.; Dale, T.N.; Van Hise, C.R.; Hoskins, L.M.; Gannett, Henry - 1896

Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1896. A massive volume, shaken at the spine but holding tight, with a clean, solid textblock; Previous ownership ink-stamp on fep; Original brown cloth binding is sunned, edge-worn and frayed, with gilt stamped spine titling and a single gilt vignette on the front cover; Completely collated; 910 pages, including index; 117 plates plus all maps (folded and otherwise), including the rear pocket USGS Survey progress map, compiled by Henry Gannett. Also includes the only full-color plate in the book, from the paper on North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, No. CXIV (114) of folded Jaspilite, from Jasper Bluff, Ishpeming, protected by onion-skin overlay; The papers include: Dinosaurs of North America, by Othniel Charles Marsh; Glacier Bay and Its Glaciers [Alaska], by Harry Fielding Reid; Some Anlogies in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and America, by Lester F. Ward; Structural Details in the Green Mountain Region and in Eastern New York, by T. Nelson Dale; Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, by Charles Richard Van Hise; An Appendix on Flow and Fracture of Rocks as Related to Structure, by Leander Miller Hoskins; Summary of the Primary Triangulation Executed by the United States Geological Survey Between the Years 1882 and 1894, by Henry Gannett. . First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Plates, Photographs, Maps, Figures, Tables, Drawings. 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Hardcover.