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Transactions of the Geological Society of Pennsylvania : vol. 1, part 1-[2]

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Author:
Geological Society of Pennsylvania  Search this
Former owner:
Latham, Allen 1792-1871 DSI  Search this
Merrill, George P (George Perkins) 1854-1929 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 pts. in 2 v., [26] leaves of plates (19 folded) : ill. (lithographs), maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Directories
Place:
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Date:
1834
1835
1834-1835
Notes:
Part 1 has t.p., with imprint: Philadelphia: Published by the Society ; W.P. Gibbons, 1834; it appears to be a second edition of that part,differing slightly from the other edition in typography, arrangement, etc., and accompanied by an appendix entitled: Observations on the geology of York County, Pennsylvania, by Thos. G. Clemson, read October 29, 1834. (13 p.)
No more published.
Lists of members are included (p. [vii]-ix; p. 177-179).
"Appendix. Observations on the geology of York County, Pennsylvania, by Thos. G. Clemson, read October 29, 1834"--13 p., at end of pt. 1.
The principal object of the society was to promote the establishment of a state geological survey; the first Geological Survey of Pennsylvania was authorized in 1836. No further record of the society has been found, and it apparently ceased to exist after its object had been accomplished; its members (who took no part in the survey) joined in the organization of a new, national society in 1840, the Association of American Geologists, out of which developed, in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science--Cf. J.P. Lesley, Historical sketch of geological explorations in Pennsylvania and other states. 1876 (Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: 1874-'5-'6), p. A29-A52. (The Geological Society of Pennsylvania).
Some of the plates hand-colored.
Errata: p. [180] of pt. 1. Errata slip tipped in before p. 253, pt. 2.
Also available online.
SCNHRB copy (39088002209179, 39088002209187) has bookplates of George P. Merrill, U.S.N.M.
SCNHRB copy has bookseller's stamp on original 1st front free endpaper: Sold by Henry W. Derby, Columbus, Ohio.
SCNHRB copy has blind-embossed property stamp on preliminaries and t.p.: A. Latham, Chillicothe, Ohio.
SCNHRB copy bound in olive cloth, title in gilt within red leather spine label.
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Topic:
Geology--Societies, etc  Search this
Geologists  Search this
Call number:
QE1 .G3435t 1834
QE1.G3435t
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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