Final report addressed to the Commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office.
Includes frontispiece and title page vignette.
Includes index.
Atlas has title: Illustrations to the geological report of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota / by David Dale Owen.
Geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota -- Geological report of a survey of portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, made during the years 1847, '48, '49 and '50 / by Joseph G. Norwood -- Geological report of that portion of Wisconsin bordering on the south shore of Lake Superior, surveyed in the year 1849 / by Charles Whittlesey -- Geological report of local, detailed observations, in the valleys of the Minnesota, Mississippi, and Wisconsin rivers, made in the years 1848 and 1849 / by B.F. Shumard -- Description of the remains of extinct Mammalia and Chelonia, from Nebraska Territory / by Joseph Leidy -- Appendix. article I. Description of new and imperfectly known genera and species of organic remains / by D.D. Owen ; article II. Descriptions of one new genus and twenty-two new species of Crinoidea, from the subcarboniferous limestone of Iowa / by D.D. Owen and B.F. Shumard ; article III. Summary of the distribution of orders, genera, and species in the northwest ; article IV. Additional chemical examinations / article V. Systematic catalogue of plants of Wisconsin and Minnesota / by C.C. Parry ; article VI. Systematic catalogue of birds observed in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota / by Henry Pratten