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Jackson, C. T., Reports on the geology of the State of Maine, and on the public lands belonging to Maine and Massachusetts, this Journal, =36=, 153, 1839.

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Gibson, J. B., Remarks on the geology of the lakes and the valley of the Mississippi, this Journal, =29=, 201–213, 1836.

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Phillips, John, Geology of Yorkshire, this Journal, =21=, 14–15, 1832.

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Granger, Ebenezer, Notice of a curious fluted rock at Sandusky Bay, Ohio, this Journal, =6=, 180, 1823.

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Dobson, Peter, Remarks on bowlders, this Journal, =10=, 217–218, 1826.

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Murchison, R. I., Address at anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, this Journal, =43=, 200–201, 1842.

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Peter Dobson (1784–1878) came to this country from Preston, England, in 1809 and established a cotton factory at Vernon, Conn.

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Buckland, W., On the evidence of glaciers in Scotland and the north of England, Proc. London Geol. Soc., =3=, 1841.

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Hitchcock, Edward, First anniversary address before the Association of American Geologists, this Journal, =41=, 232–275, 1841.

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Third annual meeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, this Journal, =43=, 154, 1842; Abstract of proceedings of the fourth session of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, ibid., =45=, 321, 1843.

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Rogers, H. D., Address delivered before Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, this Journal, =47=, 275, 1844.

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Agassiz, Louis, The erratic phenomena about Lake Superior, this Journal, =10=, 83–101, 1850.

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Desor, E., On the drift of Lake Superior, this Journal, 13, 93–109, 1852; Post-Pliocene of the southern States, etc., =14=, 49–59, 1852.

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Dana, J. D., Manual of geology, 546, Philadelphia, 1863.

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