Download or read book Contributions to the History of American Geology (Classic Reprint) written by George Perkins Merrill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contributions to the History of American Geology Of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, ten thousand copies; one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand for the House. Five thousand for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, and two thousand for distribution by the National Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.