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BULLETIN OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA V o l . 20, pp. 1-132 February 12 , i# 0 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, AND PALEONTOLOGY OF BRAZIL* BY JOHN C. BRANNER ( Presented by title before the Society December 27, 1905) CONTENTS Page Introduction............................................................................................................... 1 Bibliography.............................................................................................................. 3 I ntroduction No comprehensive bibliography of the geology of Brazil has hitherto been attempted. M. de Margerie, in his Catalogue des Bibliographies Géologiques, published in Paris in 1896 by the Congrès Géologique Inter national; mentions six papers upon geologic subjects, each of which con tains references to Brazilian geology; but none of these lists makes any pretense of being a bibliography of the geology of Brazil. In 1881 the Bibliotheca Nacional, at Rio de Janeiro, published its important Catalogo da Exposigao da Historia do Brazil in two large volumes. One of these volumes contains a list of the books and papers in the Bibliotheca Nacional that relate to the geology of Brazil, and included in this are many titles of works belonging to private individuals and not belonging to the library at that time. That is the nearest approach that has yet been made to a bibliography of the geology of Brazil. The list was necessarily imperfect ; omitting the manuscripts and papers upon mineral waters, it contained only one hundred and twelve titles. A bibliography of the Mesozoic invertebrate paleontology of South America is given on pages 3 to 6 of Dr C. A. White’s Contribuiçôes â Paleontologia do Brazil, published at Rio de Janeiro in 1887. That list contains twenty-four titles. •An incomplete edition of this bibliography was published in the Archivas do Museu Nacional do Bio de Janeiro, vol. XII, In 1903. The proofs, however, were not seen by the author and many serious errors were overlooked by the printers. The great num ber of titles added, the corrections made, and the growing interest in the geology of Brazil have encouraged the Geological Society of America to publish the present list. Or M. A. R. Lisboa, one of the ablest of the younger Brazilian geologists, has now begun the publication of an annual annotated bibliography of the geology of Brazil In the Annaes da Escola de Minas. The author Is glad to have future work on the subject in his able hands. I—Bum.. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 20, 1908 (1) Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/20/1/1/3412515/BUL20-0001.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 2 BBANNER— BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF BRAZIL In 1901, the Bureau of American Republics published at Washington "A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Brazil, 1800- 1900,” prepared by P. Lee Phillips, 8°, 145 pages, That list includes many titles upon geology and geography, but these articles are not distin guished from others, and, so far as they relate to geology, there are more omissions than titles. The present bibliography contains over 2,000 titles, not counting ab stracts, notices, and reviews. Owing to the poverty of literature upon the geology of Brazil, many books of travel and exploration are included that make no pretense of being works upon geology, but which contain notes upon the subject of more or less value. But though the number of titles is over 2,000, the bulk of them treat of the geology of Brazil only at second or third hand. The original papers from which most of these references are taken were written by a few men, the most important contributions being made by Agassiz, Clarke, Derby, Eschwege, Gorceix, Hussalc, Lund, Rathbun, C. A. White, and Woodward, while the field work from which these results have been obtained was done by still fewer. Some of these men have also done a vast amount of work in cognate branches of science. Lund, for example, worked on zoology and botany, as well as on geology; and the papers of Liitken, Rheinhardt, and Warming on botany and zoology are the direct outcome of Lund’s work in Brazil. This list emphasizes the fact that the great bulk of the geologic work in Brazil has been done by two men— Eschwege and Derby. These men are noteworthy both for the amount and the character of their work. Eschwege’s results were mostly published in German, and have therefore not been as accessible to Brazilian students as if they had been published in Portuguese or French. Fortunately the results of Derby’s work have been published in Portu guese as well as in English, and his influence upon geologic work in Brazil has been correspondingly important. Moreover, Derby’s influence has extended even further than the long list of his valuable papers would indicate, for almost every modern writer upon the geology of Brazil has been inspired by Derby’s work, and not a few of them have based their conclusions almost entirely upon data furnished by him. Mr Henri Gorceix, for several years director of the Escola de Minas at Ouro Preto, has also done much to arouse an interest in the mineralogy of Brazil and in mining engineering. Several of his students are now among the most active and efficient workers on the geology of the country. The present bibliography is chiefly an author’s list arranged alpha betically. When there are several titles credited to one author, they are arranged chronologically. Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/20/1/1/3412515/BUL20-0001.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 AUREU— AGASSIZ 3 B ibliography ABREU E LIMA: See Lima. ACAUÄ, BENEDICTO MARQUES DA SILVA: Relatorio dirigido ao Governo Imperial em 15 de Abril, de 1847, pelo Inspector Geral dos terrenos diamantinos da Provincia da Bahia. .Revista do Instituto Historico, 1847. IX, 2a ediçâo, 227-260. Rio de Janeiro, 1869. Parte segunda: da de- scripçâo dos terrenos diamantinos, 247-260. Extract in Diccionario geo graphica das Minas do Brazil por Francisco Ignacio Ferreira, q. v. 209-217. Rio de Janeiro, 1885. ACCIOLI DE CERQUEIRA E SILVA, IGNACIO: Corografia Paraense, ou descripçâo fisica, histórica e politica, da provincia do Gram-Parà. 8°. Bahia na typografia do Diario, 1833. Mineralogy, 5-6 and footnote; pororóca, 69-70. ACCIOLT, JOSÉ BITTENCOTJRT: Memoria sobre a viagem ao terreno nitroso. Manuscripto, IV, 222-251. Inst. Hist, e Geogr. Braz. (Serra dos Montes Altos entre Urubú e Caitithe.) ACKERMANN, EUGEN: Die Gold-Industrie an der Grenze des Staates Para im nördlichen Brasilien. CheniiJcer-Zeitung, XXV, 25-26. 4°. Cöthen, 1901. ACUSA, PADRE CHRISTOVAL DE: Nvevo desevbrimeinto del rio de las Amazonas. Al qval fve, y se hizo por orden de su Magestad, el año de 1639. 4o. 46 ff. En Madrid, en la Imprenta del Reyno, 1641. Oro f. 26 ; minas f. 27-28. The original edition is very rare. Translated into French under-the following title. A'TJNA, CHRISTOFLE D ’: Relation de la Rivière des Amazones. Traduite par feu M. de Gomberville sur l’original Espangnol. I, 200 pp. ; II, 218 pp. 12°. Paris, 1682. Translated into German under the next title. ACUNA: Bericht von dem Strom derer Amazonen. 8°. Wien, 1729. Trans- 1 into English under the following title. ACUatfX CHRISTOPHER D ’: Voyages and discoveries in South America. The first up the River of Amazons to Quito, in Peru, and back again to Brazil, performed at the command of the King of Spain. Done into the English from the originals, being the only accounts of those parts hitherto extant. 8°. London, 1698. Mines of gold, silver, etc. 81-83; 131-133; 176-169 bis; 175 bis; 176 bis. ADALBERT OF PRUSSIA, Prince: Travels of His Royal Highness, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, in the south of Europe and in Brazil, w'ith a voyage up the Amazon and the Xingu. Translated by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk and John Edward Taylor. 2 vols., 8°. 1, 338 ; II, 337. London, 1849. The Brazilian portion begins in vol. I, 211, and extends to the end of vol. II. It contains notes on the character of the rocks. AGASSIZ, L.: Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, t. II. Neuchâtel, 1833- 1843. Amblypterus olfersi Ag., II, p. 4. On page 303 he says it is of “Zech- stein” age. II, p. 40, from marl shales of Ceará. Semionotus spixi Ag., from Brazil, t. II, p. 8. Semionotus bergeri Ag., II, p. 226. On page 304 S. bergeri is put down as “Lias.” Aspidorhynchus comptoni Ag., from South America, by Gardner, and from Pernambuco. II, p. 139 (to be described). On p. 166, A. Comptoni is said to be from the “Craie.” Rhacolepis latus, R. buccalis, R. olfersi (= Amblypterus olfersi). t. IV, p. 293. These are listed, but not described, as from the “Craie du Brésil.” Cladocyclus gardneri Ag., noted, not described, from Brazil. V, p. 103. Calamopleurns cylindricus, irom “Craie du Brésil.” t V, p. 122, not described. Appendice, p. 134, he mentions Gardner’s specimens from the north of Brazil. Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-pdf/20/1/1/3412515/BUL20-0001.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 4 BRANNER----BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF BRAZIL AGASSIZ, LOUIS: On the fossil fishes found by Mr. Gardner in the Province of Ceará, in the north of Brazil. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. XXX, 82-84. 8°. Edinburgh, 1841. AGASSIZ, LOUIS: Sur quelques poissons fossiles du Brésil (Lettre à M. Élie de Beaumont). Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences. XVIII, 1007- 1015. Paris, 1844. AGASSIZ, LOUIS: On the drift in Brazil, and on decomposed rocks under the drift. (Communicated by Alex. Agassiz.) American Journal of Science, 2d series, XL, 389-390.